47p2
Senior Retro Guru
What I never got about this particular sportive was the fact that only about 10% of entrants actually took up the offer of the more difficult route. The route in itself wasn't that bad but the road surface once over the top and coming down the other side was terrible, so much so that I was wishing I hadn't done it. My guess is a layer of wet tar had been sprayed onto the road and then a guy with a shovel load of type 1 hardcore had scattered said type 1 over the top of the wet tar. Not a good combination for a carbon bike, there again not a good combination for any bike. I'm heading back tomorrow to see if I can retrieve my top denture