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DSC_0660.JPGLive tracking! Gore Bike recce ride
It's a lovely day for a ride which is why we've sent Dave off to recce the route of Round 1 of the Gore Bike Wear sportive at Llanwrtyd Wells and we're traking him live so you can follow his progress over the 90 mile route with its 2600m of climbing including the Devil's staircase.
It'll be just like being there… without the pain.
He'll be reporting back later with words and pics, but in the meantime enjoy the ride.
You can have a go at the real thing on 4th of July entries are still open and there's the choice of 50 or 90 mile routes.
Click on the marker to see the current ride stats, the map will refresh every two minutes.
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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it looks like a beautiful ride, will have to do it sometime.
Ahh, I have yet to meet someone else with a handlebar cam like mine!
got it from mx1.co.uk if anyone wants to look.
i had a cameraman en route in a support van!
Good going Dave, what a fantastic day for it too!
wow! that map is a *mess*. should have turned the gps off before i set off home
like tone said i said, it's an awesome route, lots of hard climbing and some unbelieveable scenery. The Tawe valley is just incredible, what a road. The two climbs at the start (the Devil's Staircase and the other one) are really tough too
we didn't make it all the way round sadly as we were trying to film and take pics too and we kind of ran out of time. so we got in the van for 25 miles and rode the last bit across the Eppynt range which is one of my favourite rides (and descents!)
below some pics to give a flavour of the ride, video (and more pics) tomorrow.
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What camera you using on the bike?
very cool stuff. Hoping that I am fortunate enough to ride this event...sounds great, looking forward to the pictures guys
News just in! He hasn't been eating an enormous cake it's just that there's no signal up there in the hills - hence the straight lines on the map every time he does get a bit of signal.
Word from the big man is that it is an "amazingly beautiful' ride… and "very hard" he's done the Devil's Staircase and now watch his average speed grow suspiciously rapid as he hoofs it along to the end of the route to do some filming at the military range at the route's end.
Might have some pics to post in a mo, if and that's very much an if, Dave's remembered his USB cable…
As to what system he is using? We're tracking him via the GPS in his phone (so no phone signal - no track) combined with some software whizz-bangery that sticks it into the road.cc database and from there on to the site.
what system is he using?
Must be some cake
maybe dave found a great cake shop?
He appears to have been missing out parts of the route using teleportation.
yeah, I noticed that… early lunch perhaps
appears to have stopped
this is very snazzy, I like! Wish id checked my emails eariler and had been able to join dave on the ride though