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General Category => Audax => Topic started by: RideHard on 14 August, 2014, 01:05:19 pm

Title: London-Oxford-London Ghan reversed 200 5th Sept
Post by: RideHard on 14 August, 2014, 01:05:19 pm

London-Oxford-London (LOL reversed) Ghan 200 5th Sept 2015

Host of your suggestions incorporated from the last LoL in March... so reversed 6 months later. :thumbsup:
so you won't recognise it (3 cooling towers missing at Didcot power station).

Fixie Friendly: No steep climb on the Ghan Revesed, but beware the STEEP decents at Windsor & Chinnor hills!!
Info: www.steamride.co.uk

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: adrianfitch on 14 August, 2014, 01:53:48 pm

Looking forward to it.

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: bikey-mikey on 17 August, 2014, 01:06:13 am

Yep, I'm in !!

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: RideHard on 04 September, 2014, 08:23:54 pm

Only 6 days later on 12th Sept.
Stage 6 of the Tour de Britian will be using a section of the Steamride : The Ghan, which passes through Gt.Missenden, past Chequers, Bledlow Ridge to Wallingford ;D
http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/stages/stage6/

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: bikey-mikey on 06 September, 2014, 11:32:58 pm

'Twas a super fast day for me!  8)

Rode with a few guys on an 'on/off' basis.  :D

The route clockwise is excellent and apart from a few tiny route sheet foibles it went flawlessly for me.

Good stuff Tim !

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: PackhorsePenny on 07 September, 2014, 09:42:03 pm

Really enjoyed my day ... Ran out of steam ::-) near the end but survived to ride another day!

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 07 September, 2014, 10:31:11 pm

I enjoyed the ride much better this way round and with the superfluous distance removed. This event continues to improve.

The route sheet should be better next time, though the gpx was fine. Tandem pilots and recumbent folk need reasonable skills and chunks of the course were distinctly unfriendly to trikes and other large machines.

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan 200 6th Sept
Post by: Huff n Puff on 08 September, 2014, 11:14:53 am

Another superb event, fantastic start/finish location at Ruislip and I think I enjoyed it as much as the spring one. Have already entered for March 2015.

Title: Re: London-Oxford-London Ghan reversed 200 5th Sept
Post by: Huff n Puff on 11 August, 2015, 08:27:04 am

....I'm gutted, I will be away and can't do this on September 6th! And there are now AAA options too! One of my favourite Audaxes, really convenient from London.