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Hope it helps. I'll leave it up a bit longer. I also have the GPX if you need/want it.

Heading north you'll have the Mistral in your face if you're not lucky. We rode down with it at our backs and had a wonderful time. Friends tried it the other way and gave up at Montelimar. Mind you, they both had the runs as well. I don't know EV17, but from their site it looks similar to our route...

A few years back Montpellier had a bad rep for yobs throwing bricks at cyclists. We routed our 2012 Strasbourg-Perpignan gallop round to the south of it because of that.

This is the one I would like but I bet it costs more than £25:



(Pic from Rumbach in Germany)

I don't see anything wrong with it. If it had been a theatre festival they would have printed "Police condemn appalling violence at theatre festival". If it had been a tiddlywinks competition they would have printed "Police condemn appalling violence at tiddlywinks competition". ...

I used to have a Ciclosport HAC4 which, given total weight of bike+rider+load, would tell you whatever wattage you were developing. Obviously it took no account of wind or road surface, and the figure it showed was probably inaccurate but it was consistent, and for climbing mountains it was great. I...

Would be interested in replies to this one - off to the Alps in a few weeks and just wondering how people get their head around going up hill for 20 miles or so. Fitness side, not overly worried, mental side - well that's a different issue. Don't worry about it. If you find a local pimple and do th...

Hang about. What's the R-word? Ruritanian?

I just typed in the dreaded N-word and hit Preview to see what would happen.

Go ahead, try it.

I'd certainly drive several hundred km to do an Audax, but I've stopped doing any events from our regional FFCT calendar that are too far away to ride to. But I have no trouble with people driving to cycle tracks to ride if they can't get there any other way, e.g. if they're medically incapable. I'd...

Wait & see, Mélenchon will blame Macron.

FWIW I have seen rats on the Königstraße in the middle of Stuttgart, right outside one of the most popular restaurants.

As far as I'm concerned it's Quitters and Stayers.

Dunno about Evans, but I dropped my eTrex 20 a couple of years back - well, it quit the bars at 40 kph and ruined a nice downhill sweep. It whacked off the road and into long grass, where I found it half an hour later just as I was hoping not to find it, so that I would have an excuse to buy an eTre...

T'other day I went to see the gastropodologist, and was shown into a pleasantly calm, bright, spacious waiting-room. I hauled out my phone and began to read my current eBook. Five minutes later a secretary (or secretory, given the visceral environment) comes in and zaps the wall-mounted TV into ugly...

Pasta for breakfast a couple of hours before the start has always worked for me. I carry various bars in the HB bag but mini-salami* as well for the salt, fat & protein, which stop the sweet stuff becoming sickening. And a banana, whose skin you can joyously whang into the hedgerow because, m'lo...