Distance
207km
Climbing
2000 m
AAA points
0
Controls
Tenbury Wells
Bishop’s Castle
Ironbridge World Heritage Site
Plus three information controls
If you have not guessed already, this route goes to South Shropshire.
No expensive fees, no headline sponsors, no goodie bags, no numbers, no gold standard times, no broom wagons and no pretending at the finish to have looked into the jaws of hell and survived.
South Salopian is cycling at its best. It’s about a good distance in a day, riding at a sensible pace with good company, travelling through quiet and pleasant countryside in the orange glow of an autumn day before winter arrives.
Soak in the early autumnal colours of South Shropshire and The Marches. The ‘free-controls’ are located in three cafe rich and cake laden market-towns with plenty of opportunities to share a coffee with fellow audaxers.
Dusk will be at 18:30 and it is always a great idea to carry lights just in case of delay.
The new e-brevet app will also be availabe for proof-of-passage.
You already have cycling route networks that go almost everywhere -- you just need to correct the abuse of those networks by some users. Which is...
Well I know for UK drivers this is all very new and a struggle. And frankly much of the problem is encapsulated in the conjuction of "residential...
City junction near the Boundary labelled dangerous by locals...
That's wild. If I were racing at trek, I would actually prefer the old madone with the new bottles, faster is better😅
I only really see one incident (the truck pull out). Thankfully the last time I had something similar it was 10 years ago. https://www.youtube...
Since we're talking (checks thread again) why UK cycle sales have plummeted to 1970s levels, and now "infra" and "US" ... surely one of the best...
I agree, TV coverage of three stages as a one-time-only does nothing for the sport of cycling.
One of, and maybe the only, redeeming values of the post-my-life culture, is that some of the adherents will do the cops' job for them -- which is...
You can both be right - the scheme was introduced by Labour, but the fines levied under it increased dramatically in 2023 under the Tories.
Agreed, there was no supension. There were various modifications of the plan, and a long time before the Beafort Rd and Crews Hole Rd one way plan...