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By the way, if we could stop with her "btwin bike" that would be great. That makes it sound like she's riding this:

whereas in fact she's on that:

(Not diminishing her amazing achievement in any way, of course)

I feel like if I go to the loo I'll fall asleep, and the knees hurt.

This is fine.

Even without the travelator, Welwyn delivers. Thanks everyone for a superb ride, specially @youramericanlover for being such a nice pacemaker in the first half (in French you'd say "be/ride as a hare" but I'm not sure it's a thing in English) and @Rod_Munch for the whisky.

Also I love my new chirping friend #garmin

Just go get your bike and WFT (work from train) meanwhile?

Actually I might even get crazy and ride there.

I'll make sure to top up mine!

Train out:

1) middleofnowhere
2) YAL
3) Ruserius
4) cgg
5)

Ride out:

1) rod_munch
2) rhowe
3)
4)

I might actually ride back on this one.

I'm going to Herne Hill this evening so would not be able to be around before 22:00+. Should I bother going up swain's or will everybody be gone?

@T0mg all yours, too short for my bike :(

Thanks gentlemen.

So while I was pedalling this got me thinking, surely we could do some sort of transcontinental alleycat within London?

Both of you got me thirsty, now wondering where does one find Efes in London.

2nd dibs fork? Pending steerer measurement of my current fork.

Interested in bars + groupset, text on the way

Alex Bourgeonnier scratched. He was at the end of the line, really.

Well to me this reads as boring and windy hence the hesitation. Did you enter?

It looks like @hippy and Andy Sallnow (#144) are having a race within the race. Loved how hippy passed 144 while the dot was marked as resting and then it immediately took off and repassed him :D

I'm short of a 600 for my SR so was thinking about it. Would be my 1st 600 though!

Thanks for a great ride and sorry to have been something of a drag! #burgerkinggate

Actually I'll go to Victoria - please include me in the group save if I'm not around yet when you buy it :)

Apparently it has tighter margins and needs to be pressed quite hard on the rim to work properly. Read that in a test which I'll try to find again :)

The only problem with the velogical is that your wheel has to be bang-on true. Showstopper as far as I'm concerned.

Train out:
1) middleofnowhere
2) cgg (although likely from Blackfriars)
3)

Ride out
1)
2)
3)

I think you can tweet things such as "man, if I was racing across Europe and having freehub problems I'd totally do so-and-so" but you cannot give them advices directly.

Ah I should have asked beforehand if you were riding it in the end and if yes on what bike / in what outfit. Sorry about that ! (I was the French guy on the French bike (Look))

And yes - the dogs, very nice touch.

Interested in the 3t stem 6deg , pm on the way.

Oops, wrong topic. Sorry!

So the National 400 was awesome. Top notch organisation and a profusion of TLC and food at every control. As one of the participants put it, it was "an eating event with a bit of cycling thrown in.", and that's without mentioning the seriously beautiful route. I also found that body and bike were ticking along nicely for most of it, except for a painful chaffing on the inside of the left thigh from 250km onwards. It was becoming borderline show-stopper around the penultimate control (km 306) and another rider kindly lended me a tube of chamois cream.

All in all, still not sure about a 600 this year, even though it should be within reach.

Also, it is a strange thing to find yourself thinking "right, only 100km to go, should be okay".

Now - who signed up for @marcusjb 's one next week-end?