Bill Baka said:On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:03:54 -0400, Steve Palincsar <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:the black rose said:Which is better for endurance riding: road or touring bike? Or is it
all about how the bike fits you so type doesn't matter?The classic endurance ride is the brevet, and the classic bikes (Rene
Herse and Alex Singer) for randonneuring can be classed as "light
touring" bikes. Here's a link to a web site that describes one in very
great detail, with some wonderful pictures:
<http://home.t-online.de/home/dirk.feeken/singer/singer.html>If you're planning on riding about 780 miles in 90 hours, you can
expect to be riding in the dark, dog tired. So you need lights, you
need a comfortable bike, and you need one with forgiving handling that
doesn't require constant full-alert attention just to make it go
straight.I may be nuts, but I am not crazy. 780 miles in 90 hours? Is that 24
hour pedaling with no sleep breaks or just 4 days of double centuries?
Sounds like 90 hours straight if it is in the dark as well as the light.
Insane. Where do I sign up?
Bill Baka
Here's a link to the Randonneurs USA site <http://www.rusa.org/>
where you can read more about the sport. Here's a link to an article
about Paris-Brest-Paris <http://www.rusa.org/pbp.html>, which will next be
run in 2007. The top brevet in North America is Boston-Montreal-Boston,
which will be Aug 19-22. Here's a link to an article that describes this
event <http://www.geocities.com/b-m-b/>
I was wrong, by the way: it's 1200km, or 750 miles (not 780), in 90 hours
total elapsed time. There are checkpoints along the way, and you have to
make each checkpoint by a specified time.