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Steve Palincsar
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:24:14 -0400, Bill Baka wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:03:54 -0400, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:36:24 -0400, the black rose wrote:
>>
>>> Which is better for endurance riding: road or touring bike? Or is it
>>> all about how the bike fits you so type doesn't matter?
>>
>> The classic endurance ride is the brevet, and the classic bikes (Rene
>> Herse and Alex Singer) for randonneuring can be classed as "light
>> touring" bikes. Here's a link to a web site that describes one in very
>> great detail, with some wonderful pictures:
>> <http://home.t-online.de/home/dirk.feeken/singer/singer.html>
>>
>> If you're planning on riding about 780 miles in 90 hours, you can
>> expect to be riding in the dark, dog tired. So you need lights, you
>> need a comfortable bike, and you need one with forgiving handling that
>> doesn't require constant full-alert attention just to make it go
>> straight.
>
> I may be nuts, but I am not crazy. 780 miles in 90 hours? Is that 24
> hour pedaling with no sleep breaks or just 4 days of double centuries?
> Sounds like 90 hours straight if it is in the dark as well as the light.
> Insane. Where do I sign up?
> Bill Baka
Here's a link to the Randonneurs USA site <http://www.rusa.org/>
where you can read more about the sport. Here's a link to an article
about Paris-Brest-Paris <http://www.rusa.org/pbp.html>, which will next be
run in 2007. The top brevet in North America is Boston-Montreal-Boston,
which will be Aug 19-22. Here's a link to an article that describes this
event <http://www.geocities.com/b-m-b/>
I was wrong, by the way: it's 1200km, or 750 miles (not 780), in 90 hours
total elapsed time. There are checkpoints along the way, and you have to
make each checkpoint by a specified time.
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:03:54 -0400, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:36:24 -0400, the black rose wrote:
>>
>>> Which is better for endurance riding: road or touring bike? Or is it
>>> all about how the bike fits you so type doesn't matter?
>>
>> The classic endurance ride is the brevet, and the classic bikes (Rene
>> Herse and Alex Singer) for randonneuring can be classed as "light
>> touring" bikes. Here's a link to a web site that describes one in very
>> great detail, with some wonderful pictures:
>> <http://home.t-online.de/home/dirk.feeken/singer/singer.html>
>>
>> If you're planning on riding about 780 miles in 90 hours, you can
>> expect to be riding in the dark, dog tired. So you need lights, you
>> need a comfortable bike, and you need one with forgiving handling that
>> doesn't require constant full-alert attention just to make it go
>> straight.
>
> I may be nuts, but I am not crazy. 780 miles in 90 hours? Is that 24
> hour pedaling with no sleep breaks or just 4 days of double centuries?
> Sounds like 90 hours straight if it is in the dark as well as the light.
> Insane. Where do I sign up?
> Bill Baka
Here's a link to the Randonneurs USA site <http://www.rusa.org/>
where you can read more about the sport. Here's a link to an article
about Paris-Brest-Paris <http://www.rusa.org/pbp.html>, which will next be
run in 2007. The top brevet in North America is Boston-Montreal-Boston,
which will be Aug 19-22. Here's a link to an article that describes this
event <http://www.geocities.com/b-m-b/>
I was wrong, by the way: it's 1200km, or 750 miles (not 780), in 90 hours
total elapsed time. There are checkpoints along the way, and you have to
make each checkpoint by a specified time.