Last spring I rode part of the 600k route in cyclotouriste mode over several days. And yeah, there were many times when I was thinking, "And there are people who can ride all this in 40 hours???" It's a really beautiful route, though, and I can highly recommend it for a bike touring trip. Just make sure to have lower gears than I did :) You can find ride reports with lots of pictures for the first 4 days on my blog: http://ride-or-pie.blogspot.com/p/touring.html
Harald, stuck in snowy Wisconsin this year. On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 7:14:57 PM UTC-5, Metin Uz wrote: > > I have done the Adventure Series rides. They are all challenging, but I > found the 200k and the 600k to be hardest for different reasons. > > The 200k has a lot of technical dirt sections, and much opportunity to > make up time if you approach the dirt sections with caution, as I have. > > The 600k used to be held in June to take advantage of longer daylight. The > heat and the remote locations became a real issue, so now the brevets are > held in distance order. So less of an issue with heat, but more riding at > night. Some riders ride through, most sleep for a few hours in either > shared rooms or get their own room. For local riders, this ride can be > compared to riding Devil Mountain Double and Terrible Two on successive > days, with the added difficulty of heavier bikes and no support. > > In contrast, the 300k is relatively easy, and should be within reach of > most riders who can ride a double century. The dirt sections are relatively > short and not too technical. The 400k has a lot of climbing, some of it > steep, and chances are you will be riding all night. > > --Metin > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 2:42:44 PM UTC-7, nash...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Those are very intimidating numbers. How do you train for something like >> that? Where do you sleep? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
