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As if it needs saying, but I will anyway - I notice that the route has been marked out for the ride this coming weekend, around fire-roads and bridleways. Sounds innocuous enough, but if you are taking part please remember that racing in a public space has a massive potential to cause upset, especially down really fast fire-roads. Personally I think it is bit irresponsible to arrange a timed (ie competitive) event with several hundred riders through a very well used area, but there you go.
If you are in it please remember that the time-savings come more from climbing than descending, and also be prepared to slow down and stop at all times.
Cheers
some one nicked all the signs at the first major junction which slowed everyone down quite a lot...
To be fair, if you didnt know what was going on the "makers" looked like rubbish !
Other than the signage issues I really enjoyed it.
I've never ridden the North Downs before and it was a good introduction. Clearly it avoided anything too technical but it was an interesting ride and a challenge - 33 miles and 4300ft of climbing on the garmin. There was a lot of tantalising singletrack just off the route so a return visit might be in order I think although anythign I did ride would have to be 'minceable'.
I was quite pleased to finish it on a singlespeed as I've only be riding SS for a couple of months and never done more than about 20 miles in one go.
I hope the woman who fell at the bottom of the first epic descent is ok...