Bordeaux - Paris 650k

[Jethro]

Has anybody here ever done this?

https://www.bordeaux-paris.com/

[LittleWheelsandBig]

HK and I did the Bordeaux-Paris UAF 600 brevet several years ago. It wasn't an overly tough route. https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94995.0

Bordeaux-Paris has been organised as a BRM brevet for quite a few years, off and on. The 40hr time limit suggests this event might be an expensive supported BRM (like Rando Imperator 600 https://witoor.com/en/rando-imperator/) but maybe this event is just a sportive with a similar format.

[Wycombewheeler]

"Bordeaux-Paris is open to cyclists riding either leg-powered bikes or e-bikes, completing the course in under 40 hours."

suggests it may not be a BRM.

[Ivo]

Ï rode the edition by one of the previous organisers twice, some 25 years ago. The route is indeed fairly benign, with large groups riding at a pretty fast pace. If you can stay with one of the groups, it's one of the easy 600's, especially when the wind is the usual south-west.
There's a Belgian touring company advertising busses from Belgium to the event, which could make the logistics a lot easier.

[cygnet]

My post history suggests a) its using the same logo as 9 years ago and b) it's not the first time you've thought about this 
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=81670

[T42]

When chum & I were doing a 600 in 2015 we encountered a continuous trickle of B-P riders coming the other way and practically tacking against a keen NNE wind. It didn't look like much fun. Near Châteaudun that would have been.  That stretch north of the Loire is very exposed.

[frankly frankie]

I have an account by two pioneering Welsh ladies who rode B-P back in 1977 - around the time of the formation of AUK.  Maybe I'll scan it in sometime and stick it up here.