Durham Big Ride

plowmar
plowmar Posts: 1,032
edited September 2009 in Amateur race
As the beast has been cancelled am doing the 25 tomorrow.

Have heard the roads used are not suitable for a road bike. i.e potholes, bridlepaths etc.

Does anyone have any comments, especially if they did it last year.

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  • maddmatt
    maddmatt Posts: 166
    Road bikes are okay for it, bit rough. Won it on one this year though.
  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Thanks maddmatt.

    Used my winter bike - sounds good but it was my year round bike till I got my Bianchi and I wasn't going to use that.

    Roads weren't too bad but the cycle path? part was a bit iffy, but well hard tyres got me through.
  • maddmatt
    maddmatt Posts: 166
    The roads were fine, but that's probably ride them all the time. The beginning and end on the cycle path was really bad, like worse than I thought. Lucky I didn't puncture frankly.

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