Paris-Brest-Paris 2027 - Anyone??

[rdl03]

Definitely on my "aspire to list". There's a lot of rides I need to do successfully between now and then to decide to go. At least an SR series, and ideally a local 1200k.

Curious - how many of you are long time Randonneurs?

 

[rdl03]

Thanks for starting this thread Larry.

A friend of mine did the qualifying rides for PBP 2019 but wasn’t able to register because the event is oversubscribed. So I’m going to do a grand randonee this year to get priority registration. Current thinking is Endless Flat hosted by Northern Virginia Randonneurs in October.

As for riding together, I’ve heard it isn’t a good idea for the reasons posted. If some of us are together for some of the ride, that’s great, but if not it’s OK. We can synch up at the end and trade stories.

We would be in the "special bikes" category. I don't know that there is a limit on the number of riders in that group.

 

[Greg S]

Curious - how many of you are long time Randonneurs?

Not sure whether it qualifies as “long time” (I have a friend who did PBP in 1979) but 13 years for me and 12 grand randonnees including PBP and LEL. I rode 10K miles/year for 30 years before my first brevet. Longer rides (centuries) but didn’t get into randonneuring until riding friends got me into it.

 

[Greg S]

We would be in the "special bikes" category. I don't know that there is a limit on the number of riders in that group.

Although there is a limit in each starting wave there is also an overall limit driven by how many riders the organization can support. I suspect (but don’t know) that if the “specials” registration got large enough they’d split it into multiple waves as well.

It has historically been the case that registrations are open until the overall number reaches whatever the predefined max is for the event although there have been instances where registrations close then reopen.

 

[rdl03]

Not sure whether it qualifies as “long time” (I have a friend who did PBP in 1979) but 13 years for me and 12 grand randonnees including PBP and LEL. I rode 10K miles/year for 30 years before my first brevet. Longer rides (centuries) but didn’t get into randonneuring until riding friends got me into it.

That certainly qualifies - by an order of magnitude - in my world. I have yet to finish a ride longer than 600km, and it would take a pretty busy year for me to reach Mondial this year. I started in 2011 - did 4 200kms - Nov, Dec,Jan,Feb, and then ran as far away as I could until I retired in 2014.