Arrivée est arrivé!

[NeilP]

OK who will be the first one to reply with what page there is a photo of someone presumably doing their first Audax 

[Somnolent]

Apologies for thread hijack.... but no space on that renewal form to add family members?   My OH wants to join (and possibly some of the sprogs too) seems our E2E hasnt put them off.

Well done for spreading the word.  There's a PM on its way telling you how to add them.  Everything is possible

No PM received yet.

[SandyV]

Ours arrived in deepest Australia this week - a great read! 

[GrahamG]

The Schmidt EDelux is also supplied with the same bracket.  It's much better than the standard brackets B&M used to offer made from folded cheese.

I just use the old style bracket as it's impossible to fit the fat one to bike with calipers, mud guards and a carbon fork - even the longest dedicated recessed allen nut I could find (over an inch!) was useless. Never had one fail but then an IQ cyo weighs nothing.

[Martin]

picking up on the Threadette on the Riders Digest (aka the Yahoo group); would anybody here take advantage of a pdf-only copy?

I know from experience with a caving club newsletter that the admin required between members who do / don't want a printed copy is often more hassle and not a lot of saving than just sending them one anyway.

Also; I would not bother reading half of it if I had to read it online, a printed copy whiles away a couple of hours train commuting. And the pictures look better  

[Jord]

Working on a computer most of the day the last thing i'd want to do is read a mag on the computer - it is just not relaxing the same as sitting down with a nice cup of tea!

[Billy Weir]

The suggestion on yahoo was that an archive of electronic copies would be available to all and recent issues would only be available to members on a password protected area of the AUK website.  The option to opt out of the paper magazine would no doubt come with that.

Seems like a sensible way forward to me.  I'd probably take advantage of the archive (particularly if it is set up such that you can search for keywords and events, albeit possibly a big undertaking for a volunteer organisation).

[Jaded]

There are lots of names in Arrivee.

I don't see any value in putting it online for public consumption. Membership, yes, public no.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

There are lots of names in Arrivee.

I don't see any value in putting it online for public consumption. Membership, yes, public no.

"...password protected area..."  It is standard international practice for 'old editions' of Audaxing magazines to be publicly available.  I can't see the problem of somebody knowing that I did the Wobbly Wheelers 100 a year ago.

[Manotea]

If Zoom & Arabella could be persuaded to put up Blogs we could probably dispense with Arrivee entirely!

[Jaded]

There are lots of names in Arrivee.

I don't see any value in putting it online for public consumption. Membership, yes, public no.

"...password protected area..."  It is standard international practice for 'old editions' of Audaxing magazines to be publicly available.  I can't see the problem of somebody knowing that I did the Wobbly Wheelers 100 a year ago.

Oh, if we are talking about 100 years old issues, that's fine.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

There are lots of names in Arrivee.

I don't see any value in putting it online for public consumption. Membership, yes, public no.

"...password protected area..."  It is standard international practice for 'old editions' of Audaxing magazines to be publicly available.  I can't see the problem of somebody knowing that I did the Wobbly Wheelers 100 a year ago.

Oh, if we are talking about 100 years old issues, that's fine.

Given that Audax UK didn't exist 40 years ago, that would be a bit difficult.  Read what I actually wrote again.

[Jaded]

I did wonder if you were that old. 

[Mr Larrington]

In a previous life I used to make the BHPC magazines available in teh Intarwebs a year after the hard-copy version was published.  The advantage of a printed version is that you can read it in the bath.

[cyclone]

  The advantage of a printed version is that you can read it in the bath.

Amen to that! 

[frankly frankie]

I'm sure a waterproofed and floaty iPad with integrated back-scratcher will be the next Big Thing.

[urban_biker]

The big advantage for me would be a computer based copy available to refer to while chatting to my audaxing mates at work or reading something about it on YACF.  I don't normallly bother bringing my physical copy in.

[Feline]

A pdf version would be awesome as i could send it to my Kindle 

[Salvatore]

Edition 111 has just arrived.

I'm currently reliving HBKH through Richard Thomas' eyes.

[Somnolent]

Mine too !  Spend far too much time looking at a screen anyway, paper copy is great for a change.
And - handbook, just realised I got a Randonneur 500 in my first season ! 

[mattc]

Edition 111 has just arrived.

Should we stand on 1 leg?



Highlight so far is Denise Noha's "anyone got a comb?" moment.

(But why is John Hamilton's teenage son in the AGM awards picture?)

_{EDIT: Oooh, and a mini-ride-report of my 400. How exciting! Thanks George.}

[Fidgetbuzz]

Full marks to both Lucy and Denise for excellent articles. havent had time to read long ride reports yet

[Peter]

Edition 111 has just arrived.

Should we stand on 1 leg?

Your obscure reference to cricket umpire David Shepherd (RIP) is understood by no-one.....

[Jaded]

Oi!

I understood it!

[jogler]

so did I