L'Eroica 2010 - ride report

[fingers]

Awesome effort chaps, very impressed!

 

[fingers]

Oh and great write ups both

 

[ededwards]

http://vimeo.com/15520631

 

[orbeas]

L'Eroica

Hi Ed

superb report and pictures, makes the legs hurt.

am so impressed that I am going to run

' L'Erioka 2011 Ynys Mon'

over my favourite training rides on the isle of anglesey, both tarmac and farm tracks.

will be a charity ride possibly for the Air Ambulance and a childrens charity.

will be around 70 miles or a short one 30 miles

rules will be simple

road/cross bikes but must be fitted with the following :-

Quill handlebar stem so no ahead

gear levers on the down tube or on the handlebar ends or single fixed/single speed

Alloy wheel rims and a minimum of 28 spokes front and rear ok Bamboo ones if anyone has any straight ones !!!

No Carbon seatposts/handlebars/chainset

rest is free

will keep a regular update.

 

[mavesyn]

Orbeas.....
That sounds a great idea, a proper retro event run on similar lines to the Italian one, this sounds really cool.
Maybe John could do a sticky for this event........
Mike....

 

[ededwards]

Re: L'Eroica

Hi Ed

superb report and pictures, makes the legs hurt.

am so impressed that I am going to run

' L'Erioka 2011 Ynys Mon'

over my favourite training rides on the isle of anglesey, both tarmac and farm tracks.

will be a charity ride possibly for the Air Ambulance and a childrens charity.

will be around 70 miles or a short one 30 miles

rules will be simple

road/cross bikes but must be fitted with the following :-

Quill handlebar stem so no ahead

gear levers on the down tube or on the handlebar ends or single fixed/single speed

Alloy wheel rims and a minimum of 28 spokes front and rear ok Bamboo ones if anyone has any straight ones !!!

No Carbon seatposts/handlebars/chainset

rest is free

will keep a regular update.

This does sound good, when in the year are you thinking of running it?

And, more importantly, why does the oblique loom tube not feature in your rules?

 

[orbeas]

L'eroica

Should be June time

perhaps I will alter it to no ahead stems.

 

[john]

Report up on the front page next week, have used some pics. Hope this is ok

 

[garethrl]

Get write-up, chaps. I was seriously interested but was already committed to going to a friend's wedding in the same region (Vagliagi, just N of Siena) last weekend - ie the weekend after - and doing both wasn't an option, sadly. The countryside around there is magnificent, but our hire car was having a bit of trouble on some strade bianchi so I dread to think how I'd have fared on a road bike!

Ed - in an earlier thread you mentioned looking into wool RetroBike jerseys. Did anything ever come of that line of enquiry?

Cheers,
Gareth.

 

[stevevw]

Ed - in an earlier thread you mentioned looking into wool RetroBike jerseys. Did anything ever come of that line of enquiry?

I would be up for one of these too. And wool shorts if we could get a deal.