Randonneurs hit ECR for special ride
The Hindu
It marked the centenary of the first 200-km brevet
On September 11, Madras Randonneurs organised a 200-km brevet from Chennai to Marakannam and back to commemorate the centenary of the first brevet (a 200-km loop ride around Paris) by Audax Club Parisien, the international governing body for randonneuring.
Given that this event was associated with a memory, participants from Madras Randonneurs were encouraged to think out of the box to make the outing memorable.
The most striking feature of this effort had to do with some of the cycles. Partha Datta, founder, Madras Randonneurs, covered the 200 km with a Brompton, a compact, foldable cycle with small wheels that is in glowing contrast to the regular randonneuring cycles designed for speed and greater aerodynamics.
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