Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: S2L on 09 June, 2019, 05:46:56 pm
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Passed through Adlestrop today, didn't try it, but it seems a rather smart room...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Adlestrop_station_sign_in_the_bus_shelter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_451105.jpg)
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You've been ninja'd by Salvatore: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=34204.msg646273#msg646273
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Still think my audax hotel on the Highlands 1000 last year trumps that by a long way. Heating and lighting plus a door and windows that shut.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/0mey47tvuus1ayb/2018060222110100.jpg?raw=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/y7wwgbrhv7ib7jr/2018060222060094.jpg?raw=1)
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Battle to save hotel:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48459582 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48459582)
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Not as impressive as Phil W's hotel, but I stopped off at this one for a 20 minute nap on Thursday.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8YmT3gWwAA_UAx?format=jpg&name=small)
There were quite a few good quality Audax hotels in the route I took, including one with a thatched roof!
J
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Phil I recall seeing yours on a Facebook group a while ago, I was in awe 🤩
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Phil W, is that Crianlarich station? I recognise that push button heater!
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You've been ninja'd by Salvatore: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=34204.msg646273#msg646273
Ah yes, I remember that one.
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There was a lovely Audax hotel on the A38 that I used a couple of times.
I would have posted a photo of it, however it was completely demolished by a vehicle that left the road :o
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Phil W, is that Crianlarich station? I recognise that push button heater!
Yep, I scoped it out on the first night with a quick 1 hour kip then used it again on the third night for a longer sleep. The heater was a bonus though I knew it was an unlocked waiting room and an unmanned station. You had about a 7 hour window between the last train at night and first train in the morning. I slept pretty well in there, nice and warm, silent, and the midges couldn't get in. There were a couple of other unmanned station waiting room options further back up, and not too far off route, if I got the dozies before Crianlarich.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2019_07_06_12_10_29.sized.jpg)
3-star audax hotel at Everingham, given a 5-star rating by the World Bollard Association (https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1147466864324423681) for having a view of a bollard.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2019_07_06_12_10_29.sized.jpg)
3-star audax hotel at Everingham, given a 5-star rating by the World Bollard Association (https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1147466864324423681) for having a view of a bollard.
Is that a home made aero mudguard and what's it made out of?
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Is that a home made aero mudguard and what's it made out of?
Correx, wedged between the SKS and the frame, double-layered (with the grain in opposite directions) at the edge, and secured with cable ties. Hairodynamics (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=95565.msg2406941#msg2406941), for the improvement of, but also provides a useful place to attach a race number.
I was deliberately not molishing an aerodynamic tail fairing for racing purposes (if I wanted to be competitive in the part-faired class, I'd have to do it properly), hence the emphasis on durability rather than aero.
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Why didn't you just use a skirt protector from a city bike?
J
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Why didn't you just use a skirt protector from a city bike?
Didn't enclose enough of the wheel. Well, it probably would now. :-[
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-49393778
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Yeah, that's quite Stroud!