ah its not an issue really mate, I have autoroute and other mapping thing, havent looked at the other one yet but will have a potter about with it.
Yea... was going to say to you, with your fancy bike... thought about doing an AUDAX event? (aka... long distance riding).
They are really open to anyone, any bike can ride in one
they cost like £3 or £4 to enter, go from distances of 50km to 600km to 1200km for the paris-brest-paris or the london-edinburgh-london (thats 1600km tho).
And you get medals for just "getting through it"
Do different combinations of races over a time period (say 2x200km and 2x600km races) and you get different awards too
Looks really interesting, theres a 75km and a 200km coming up soon in my area, and they have a few 100km races chucked in too
200km is where actual events count towards your "randoneer"yness
but the 50km and 100km brevets are still awarded medals, they are seen as training rides for the larger events.
Its not a race, theres placements but everyone who completes the course gets the awards
so theres no gold silver bronze thing.
It looks really really interesting!
Im determined to get into it
but yea... with your fancy ribble (aint it?!) I bet youd look the part too!
