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General Category => Audax => Topic started by: PatrickTurps on 21 March, 2024, 10:30:10 am

Title: The Bike Project | Le Solstice - 160km/340km | Dieppe, France - 22 June 2024
Post by: PatrickTurps on 21 March, 2024, 10:30:10 am

Hi there -

I work for The Bike Project - we're a London and Birmingham-based charity that repairs bikes and donates them to refugees and people seeking asylum throughout the UK - and I'm organising a DIY audax-style supporters ride across Normandy and Brittany in June. https://thebikeproject.co.uk/le-solstice/

Two distances (160km/340km), ferry to ferry.

I recently did my first audax (Horsepower 200) - loved it - and wanted to throw this ride out a little wider, see if anyone fancied coming along - the more the merrier.

Hope some of you will join us.

Thanks!


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RIDE INFO

Date 22 June 2024 | 4.30am
Start Dieppe
End Caen / Saint-Malo

Distance 160km / 340km

Route
160km - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45881897
340km - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45009937

Rider Info
160km - https://thebikeproject.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/LE-SOLSTICE-2024-160km.pdf
340km - https://thebikeproject.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/LE-SOLSTICE-2024-340km.pdf

Title: Re: The Bike Project | Le Solstice - 160km/340km | Dieppe, France - 22 June 2024
Post by: Wycombewheeler on 21 March, 2024, 01:21:01 pm

looks interesting, the ferry crossing to dieppe is quite short, so there will be very limited sleep on the journey over. Following that 340km will be a tall ask.

I remember the section between Ouistreham and Mont st Michel taking 8 hours moving time as it was quite lumpy. So good luck, seems like a real challenge, especially if the wind blows from the west.