Ride the Range 2015
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Ride the Range 2015
Postby Grgic » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:22 am
My wife's looking for an excuse to visit a friend up Brisvegas way and is trying to encourage me to enter this event.
Is anyone doing this next year (29/3/15)? Has anyone done it in the past? I take it the course is reasonably ok until about the 90km mark where the last 25kms (from what i can tell) is an average of about 3% gradient to the finish?
Reading from previous posts someone who rode it back back in 2012 said some parts the gradient hit 20%!!! Is the course still the same from back then?
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby cancan64 » Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:35 pm
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby Grgic » Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:25 am
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby thearthurdog » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:00 am
It is a very solid day out. I don't do many Fondos etc and I found this one to be especially dangerous in the wet. A lot of folk getting their ambitions and capabilities mixed up on wet, fast and twisty roads.
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby cancan64 » Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:29 pm
Attached some of the downhill run... A few people forgot that the roads were open.. A few near misses from what I heard but to much traffic to get any decent speed up
RTR downhill1: http://youtu.be/zGeAkK_I ... urn false;
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby mmiad » Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:12 am
I've never ridden the range before. My wife and I took a trip down there last week to check out the route. The return up the range looks somewhat daunting, although I managed to ride up the range to O"Reillys at Lamington in 2013' and I'm guessing there's some similarity.
Any tips for training would be appreciated. There's a few good hills around here, so I'm plotting a few routes of varying lengths. As I have no riding buddy I'm relying on my ability to keep myself motivated.
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby singlespeedscott » Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:17 am
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby duds2u » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:30 pm
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby cancan64 » Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:53 pm
How did you go in the end.duds2u wrote:Against my better judgement I signed on for it.
I managed to hook up with a couple of quick groups up to the first water stop but I lent my multi tool to someone and by the time I got it back I was on my own for the rest of the ride. Was a good ride but it felt a lot warmer than it was.
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby ldrcycles » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:10 pm
I'll have to get down there next year, it's an enjoyable ride and my wife and i both like visiting Toowoomba.
+1?cancan64 wrote:How did you go in the end.duds2u wrote:Against my better judgement I signed on for it.
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby cancan64 » Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:59 pm
Decent was still a mess this year, easier to just take it easy with so many people on the road.ldrcycles wrote:Been quite some time since i last did it, 2011 maybe? The trouble for me was the first downhill, with my descending nerves i couldn't keep up with the lead bunch and ended up in no man's land smashing myself for 70kms. The final climb was super tough for me then, i know i had to walk quite a bit the first time i did the ride and worked pretty hard to clear it on my second attempt. With more in the legs now and decent gearing it wouldn't be too bad.
I'll have to get down there next year, it's an enjoyable ride and my wife and i both like visiting Toowoomba.
+1?
I am up your way over Easter, Staying at parents property at Goomborian. Thinking of taking the bike
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby duds2u » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:20 pm
That was an interesting start to the ride. Everyone taking their time down the range and then it started. Caught up with a bunch after taking the descent carefully and then rolled out to Mt Sylvia (I think). Well the music from Rocky got to a few of us and we formed a 4 man breakaway for a short time. About 10 others joined from the bunch of about 50+ and we rolled on.
Got to the bottom of the climb and all you could see was pedestrians pushing expensive bikes. I've never seen Zipp 404's roll so slowly.
So, the climb. Hardest sting in the tail of a 100+ ride (Have a look at it here https://www.strava.com/activities/275701424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.) I have ever experienced. 1.7k of sufferfest and then no relief to the end another 7.3k away.. I guess I was a bit lucky as my rear tube destroyed itself about 500m from the top so I was forced to stop. When I say it destroyed itself, it actually came apart at a join and it wasn''t a cheap tube either. Anyway I thought if you have to stop here you may as well make it a good one. Anyway finally back on the road in time to overtake the small bunch I had been riding with leading into the climb.
The biggest bummer was I forgot to start my computer at the start of the ride so I have unfinished business and will have to go back next year. You'll understand the term 'if it's not on Strava then it didn't happen. Well I can assure you my legs say it did but Stava says it didn't.
I have to congratulate Toowoomba Rotary for the planning and organisation the put into the ride. It was first rate and a great day in the saddle.
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Re: Ride the Range 2015
Postby cancan64 » Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:29 pm
I rode with you going by your Strava.duds2u wrote: https://www.strava.com/activities/275701424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.)
I took it easy going down and then hooked up with a rider (I think in a Giant jersey) and we caught up with a group that was moving ok and rode with them for a while but then jumped in with another group that was going faster.
I stopped at the first refuel stop with half of the group but lent my multi tool to a guy and by the time he was finished I was on my own. I took it easy to the next stop in the hope of another group catching me but there was none although another rider from my corporate team caught me so rode with him until the bottom of the climb and then I picked the pace up.
It was well organised and will ride it again next year.
here is my ride although you dont come up in mine https://www.strava.com/activities/275621076
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