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I enjoyed reading that - I'm none the wiser what kit I want for TCR but mighty impressed that you are garden-testing the options!

True, but less likely to get speeded up by traffic on the the bits between the roundabouts, though!

No, not yet. And I hardly ever ride 10s so I've only got a crappy time from a club event on a slow course, so if it's full I won't get in. Back up is there's a club 25 at Fifield later that morning.

EDIT - yes, just come through now. I'm off at the crack of dawn when it will most likely be cold and slow. PM me your email if you've not got it.

Good day out on the Dean yesterday. Fifth time i've done it and still just about my favourite ride in the south of England.

A bit chilly but only mild drizzle. Made the surface a bit greasy. I lost my back wheel for a second on a roundabout but stayed on. Later heard that one guy did come off there and at least two others elsewhere.

My power was down from last year but I was round an hour quicker! Could be the new aerobars I put on the other week. Can't think what else it could be. Whatever, it was great to see the last section into Oxford in daylight for the first time.

Am trying to drum up enthusiasm to go and set up my TT bike for the High Wycombe 10 next Friday.
I know it needs the stem changed, saddle position changed back to previous position and power meter (Stages crank put on). And maybe other stuff as well - not touched it since August so my memory is a little hazy.

EDIT - done it :-)
Worst bit was the stem: was covered in mould from sugary drink spillage that I forgot / CBA to clean off

Agreed. I'd love to do it again. When I did it before there was snow on the higher bits.

I've just entered Bryan Chapman and am mulling over whether I can justify another weekend away to do this too. It is pretty special

Sorry, guilty on that count. CBA to put the 'a' in but I now see it would have been clearer!

Good point. I'd forgotten that (or at least I'd tried to)

P885 5o is a nice course. But there's a new version of the H50/8 at Bentley this year which only uses the faster, less bumpy bit. E2/50 will be way faster though, if you can get on it (I can't).

That's just silly - best to get dropped off 100 yards down a side-road so it looks like you've just been for a pee.

Last time there were stories about someone getting a lift in a car for part of the way. That would probably do it.

The Kennet & Avon canal would cover a good chunk of the route. Mixture of surfaces from gravel towpath to going across a few fields.
It's a Sustrans route (http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/kennet-and-avon-cycle-route)

Before that, to get to Reading, you can follow either the Thames from SW London towards Reading. Much of that is off-road. Or the canal from Hanwell / Southall. They both meet up around the Jubilee River near Windsor.

Looks good from the front

Looks like he might have been right!

It goes through some really pretty scenery; a shame to blast through it. Almost!

Probably will have to drop out as my knee was sore after a few hills last Saturday :-(

Doing a 200 after work is what Steve Abraham used to do when he set his audax points record. And you know what that has led to...!

Welsh 12 is meant to be a new course for the national. Details not announced yet but might be a bit faster...

Just found out I got a place

No reply to pm so should I assume not available...?

Would like 16 if still available

My 1983-ish Super Galaxy does have the cable routing on the top tube as on this one - so could be a Dawes from before the internal routing came in.

But mine also has 'Dawes' stamped in the top of the seat stays, and it has mountings for rack, mudguards and bottle cage. Also it has plain lugs not those cut-out ones in the photo, and the style of the fork crown is different.

Might be a Dawes, might not. Unlikely to be a Super Galaxy.

This is a great story
Must be a good friendship to survive a set-up like that!

It's a bit hard to get motivated in the mornings, but after the first few hundred meters and zooming past all the traffic I start to enjoy it

That's what I always find - even in wind and rain in winter!

Looks good - may be interested. A couple of questions:
Any idea of age?
What's it made of?
Will it take 27" (and/)or 700c?
Thanks