Dragon Ride, look you

[Dombo]

Who's doing it and how's the training going? Saturday CRs, the odd commute, some hilly 60-milers around Surrey and the occasional mtb ride are all I'm managing.

Am getting afraid now, very afraid.

BTW is it considered bad form to wear a camelbak on a road cyclosportive?

[Ian A4size]

I dare say a few camel bellys will be seen on the sportive seen fairly shortly

[huw williams]

Camels are quite popular but I never understood why - there's a feed station every 30 miles so one latrge bottle is more than enough

Unless you want to play with the big boys of course and not stop at the feed stations in order to set a fast time.

But only a damn fool would try that... wouldn't they

[Graham O]

Think I am done with the longer rides now. I have done 3 100+ rides over the last 4 or 5 weeks, so hopefully I should be OK.

Anyhow..Does anyone know the score with parking. I am staying about 8 miles away on the M4, so I will be driving to bridgend. As a result, I will be looking for somewhere to park on the day...

[adrian]

Me too. I'm staying in Stroud in Gloucestershire the night before and driving to the 'end on the day.

After a nice long rest, I've done a good few seriously hilly miles in Italy, and have got the Essex sportive this weekend to see if they've done me any good. Will also be back on my 53/39 as opposed to a compact - no doubt I'll notice the difference.

But what the hell - I'll be going anyway.

[Brian Nolan]

if its the same venue as last year there is a school or large college site across the road with free parking which is where i parked..thinking back there wasn't a couple of thousand cars but there was only 1500 riders last year...

[adrian]

[quote]That reminds me - where's my Dragon Ride pack?

[huw williams]

fits between your skewer and fork leg - make sure you have enough left to fully tighten your QR though