Sunrise & Snowdrop Express 120km Audaxes - Saturday, 24th February 2018
The Beacon RCC February Audaxes are an institution on the Audax calendar, attracting 260 entries each year. The routes use quiet country roads through rural Worcestershire to Evesham and Upton. A gritted alternative is also available if icy.
We aim to find easy routes on quiet country roads that all cyclists could be confident of completing, even on a chilly winter's day when nobody is at their fittest!
For some riders our event provides a wonderful opportunity to enjoy rural Worcestershire on a crisp winter's day. For others it provides the perfect motivation to get out with friends when they might otherwise be tempted to stay indoors. In recent years we have also been delighted to welcome several local racing men and women who used it for steady winter training.
The Sunrise Express is clockwise leaving at 8.30, via Evesham and Upton-upon-Severn
The Snowdrop Express is anticlockwise leaving 9.00, via Upton-Upon-Severn and Evesham
We hope you find everything you need to know about the Beacon's February Audaxes in these pages. If you have any further questions please contact the organiser below. For details of what an Audax ride entails see our description of audaxes.
In the case of icy conditions on minor roads we make routesheets for alternative treated roads available. If the event has to be cancelled due to exceptionally dangerous conditions, riders will be allowed to complete the route under 'permanent audax' conditions on any day during the following 6 weeks. In the unlikely case of event cancellation, riders will be allowed to complete the route under 'permanent audax' conditions during a few weeks after the event date and a charitable donation made of any surplus resulting from the cancellation.
He hasn't had his Weetabix today.
Motorists mystified after being fined £100 for 'parking' in retail park at times their cars weren't even there...
Welcome to my world! My second winter using a gravel bike adapted for the road. An aluminium Orbea, now with Shimano's 1x 12-speed 45-10 cassette...
I fancied a wheelset at 50% off, but when they realised I was in Spain the discount was only 18% and so no longer attractive or even competetive....
The cycling industry, in bed with daft cycling 'journalists', forever pushing more and more fancy, ridiculous, overpriced bikes and kit HAVE KILLED...
I have the 2021 Allez sprint and love it. Super race bike just under 8kg with some carbon hoops. I broke one carbon frame and another carbon frame...
Rubbish. Roads can be design or modified in a way that creates blindspots or uneccessary conflicts.
Picture shows aftermath of crash which saw car go through Spalding pub wall...
When we are on patrol in the area we will keep an eye out ...so that we can look the other way/ turn a blind eye more efficiently
Vittoria can top the win list with my "dumbest cycling product of the year" award.