The *SECRET* cycling rides you should ALL TRY!!! Endless routes & amazing people!

[@senditsi]

Was a pleasure riding with you Katie! Couldn't agree more; Audax events have a real humble and down to earth vibe that you can't quite get anywhere else. Hopefully catch you on the next one ✌🏻

[@KatieKookaburra]

Si… awesome to ride with you buddy! And having the control points on your hand… genius 🙂🙂🙂🙃 looking forward to the next one!

[@WPKSC]

I did my first Audax this year and it was absolutely brilliant. No pretence, no rush about who was going faster than who with numbers stuck on bikes, everyone was friendly, helpful and easy to talk to. Not so much head down flat out but time to take in the scenery as you cycle your way round. Loved the questions on the way round. Will be doing more this year for sure 👍

[@claytonjones5857]

Another reason I love your videos Katie, never even heard of an Audax…..oh my word that looks so so much fun and a great way for newbies like me to meet new people thank you.

[@viruslib]

Agree! As an audax from 2013 and love to ride around the world and get to know local riders and great routes. Events could be short but friendship between rider are sometimes long lasting, all the best!❤❤❤

[@lancegallardo5519]

Your happiness and enthusiasm is infectious!

[@DebraDavies-n8v]

I have just joined Audax UK and have my first event in August ...really looking forward to what seems to be a lovely relaxed way of riding as you see the countryside

[@KatieKookaburra]

YESSSSS!!! You will love it. Such a great bunch of people doing it for the love of cycling :)

[@chap666ish]

That was a brilliant advert for Audax rides, Katie! And you're absolutely right, the one reason to do Audaxes is the people and the scenery. I mean the two best reasons to do Audaxes are the people, the scenery and the routes. No, I mean the *three* best reasons to do Audaxes are the people, the scenery, the routes and the low cost. Oh, dammit. (I mean no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition do they) Oh, and I've been doing Audaxes on and off since, er... 1998. So I must love them too.

[@bernarddalquier1119]

Hi Katie, i have à confession to make, i’m à french cyclist in south of France. I'm watching all your videos and races and try to improve my english in the same time listening to you, sometimes speaking à little too fast for me..😢. Waiting more of your videos.😂

[@carlpentney290]

Great video. Love audaxes. Better clientele than the wannabee racers and wheelsuckers you get on sportives. I've a couple of 200k in the next 6 weeks, I cannot wait after watching this video! A big shoutout to all the audax organisers and helpers!

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yassss big thanks to everyone who helps make them what they are 🙂🙂

[@reecedawson6113]

I did the York Arrow 400km last month and it was great, i love racing but just going round some random lanes you've never been to is just so much fun

[@Bobtowncreative]

Oh WOW so going to try tis route. Brilliant video, your enthusiasm is INFECTIOUS !!! Can't believe I was in Wray on Tuesday & you'd done a route from there. The Scarecrow festival is equally fantastic.

[@Nosh_Feratu]

awesome video! Ive never done an Audax but this looks amazing, just my cup of tea! These are my local roads, I actually moved up here from Rivington a while back to spend more time on the bike away from traffic, absolutely love my daily riding around here but its also perfectly situated between the Dales and Lakes too for some further afield adventures! glad you enjoyed it Katie!!

[@lancegallardo5519]

No Bike Snobs or gear snobs, I love it!

[@NicholasBowring]

Entirely agree about the fun of Audax's Katie. Scenery looks stunning on this one. I've cycled through Slaidburn on LEJOG and the video brought back some great memories

[@KatieKookaburra]

Awww thanks so much. We love Audax don’t we 🤩✨ glad it brought back some great memories for you 😎

[@Countrystock]

Just signed up for my first one..... it's in 2 weeks time around the New Forest. Thank you Katie ❤

[@raybraydh2956]

best vlog you have done in ages imo great to see you enjoying an Audax be good to see a few more like this

[@KatieKookaburra]

Cheers Ray glad you enjoyed it :)

[@thedoginside]

Doing my first one v soon with my son. Absolutely can't wait, like you say the people seem proper nice 😀

[@SignorLuigi]

Great video, Katie!!! 👏👏👏 I believe for us folks in the USA, the sister organization to Audax UK is Randonneurs USA.

[@Emonk2010]

100% agree - they are great. I used to do quite a few and it's a fantastic way to explore new parts of the country. Start with a 50 or 100 to get used to the concept and see if you can handle the mild panic of finding info controls. LEL next year for the extra keen 😬

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yeaaaah that's it! Sounds amazing! :)

[@Hjd10]

It was a great day out, somebody spotted my club jersey on your video. 😂

[@Thejimmymethod]

Been interested in Audax for years from watching your videos, finally bit the bullet and entered a couple end of last year - totally hooked! Also 100% true what you say about the people, just a wonderfully sense of community. Especially when you're all comparing notes over a petrol station picnic or huddled up in s us shelter in the pouring rain 😂

[@KatieKookaburra]

Hahahaha yeah there is nothing that will bond riders more than over a pavement picnic or standing together under a bridge sheltering from the pouring rain haha

[@clairedz1]

You should volunteer or put on an event. Great fun and good to give something back.

[@KatieKookaburra]

I would love to!!!!

[@clairedz1]

@@KatieKookaburra get in touch with your local organiser, sure they’d be happy to mentor you. The more organisers and volunteers the better!

[@StevieJD74]

Can’t agree more with everything you said. Love an Audax, my favourite rides. So many wonderful places to explore and the very best of routes.

[@geoffreyhoney122]

Loved this Katie! Must admit I'm tempted. I'll look up Radonneuring Ontario again. Great to see such joy! Thank you!

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yesss please do!!! You will love it it’s just cycling joy c

[@lancegallardo5519]

Blessed to live and have been born in SoCal. We take the great weather here for granted.

[@greghart6310]

Looks like you had a blast! Thanks for the vids. 🙂

[@KatieKookaburra]

Always!

[@markreams3192]

It’s almost May and y’all are still in winter kit!😂

[@KatieKookaburra]

I know ☹️

[@jimpeyton1459]

Good fun out on a bike. While i cherish my long solitary efforts, nothing compares to sharing a ride with cool riders. Good thing about these rides is if one finds a group too stuffy, pretentious, etc., one can find another group...😂😊

[@ratchruaylarp5911]

Agree at all. I do 12 Audax events a year in Thailand.

[@nigellee2350]

Doing my first Audax in July - 200k. Based on this video I cannot wait.

[@davewatt8840]

Great video as always Katie, certainly looked fun, looking to buy a pair of photochromic cycling glasses any recommendations? ❤

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yessss they are the best. The ones on my helmet here are Oakley are these: www.opticiansdirect.co.uk/sunglasses/oakley-evzero-blades-oo9454-oakley-evzero-blades-oo-9454-945409-matte-black/size-one-size/g13698/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0MexBhD3ARIsAEI3WHIBpr6OP8aT0Z9spOxsxVbdd0cYBoB9lHL86kYcNnDMjavzvtNB9CMaAh7iEALw_wcB

[@KatieKookaburra]

These were the cheapest I found but my gawwwd have they lasted the best of any glasses I have had. Don't seem to scratch as easily as other Oakleys I have had. And they are soooo light! Would recommend 10/10.

[@davewatt8840]

@KatieKookaburra thanks very much Katie for replying and that information, have just ordered a pair 😀

[@josephlyne8290]

Enjoyed that thanks. Your videos encouraged me to try my first audax rides, which I am enjoying. Id love to see you ride with someone on their first audax :)

[@KatieKookaburra]

I would love that actually. Anyone want to ride one... message me :)

[@KatieKookaburra]

Although I did one here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqCTmoRtntqmqs0si=-0jK5lYvpvz8w3Ia

[@wolfade89]

It looked cold, eating beans on toast with your big gloves on. I would like to do an audax but maybe when the weather gets warmer. But fair play to you Katie.

[@darrellcarter1163]

I loved doing this years ago great vlog skinny k

[@252Scooby]

Secret ride ! It’s posted on Strava , posted on KZbin & with lots of other riders . . . I’d say it’s the exact opposite of a secret 🤣, & the same weekend it was the scarecrow festival in wray

[@n22pdf]

Great vid Katie reminds me to do more Audax 😊 ❤❤ I’d prob get the questions wrong 😢 Pete 🚴🏻👍

[@mattiasandersson2315]

That dude's watch!⌚,,,it's huge! I haven't had a wrist watch since i got my first phone in the 90's.

[@KatieKookaburra]

Ay he is tracking all his stats :)

[@andyh1837]

Thanks for this video Katie … it gave me the pick me up I needed right now.

[@KatieKookaburra]

Andy so glad it helped!! You signing up for one? Do it! 🙂🙂🙂

[@lancegallardo5519]

There is so much History everywhere in GB, England, Wales and Scotland. A Cycling paradise, save the weather, I mentioned the rain and cold right?

[@juliannejameson8987]

Doing a hilly 100k this coming Sunday in Wiltshire and a 200k the following week - these Audaxes are always wonderful routes and as you say no pretence x

[@KatieKookaburra]

Absolutely!! Enjoy the rides 🙌🙌

[@elizabethwwooten]

i wish there were Audax in the US! I guess Ill just have to fly across the pond!

[@KatieKookaburra]

You do!!!! It’s called Randonee google it you have them there x

[@juliannejameson8987]

Absolutely love an Audax - all ages there and all sorts of cakes too!

[@KatieKookaburra]

Oooh yeah all the cakes haha!

[@johnmcnulty1129]

Have a awesome 11th year Katie 🎵 You are our sunshine our only sunshine You make us happy when skies are grey You must know Katie how much we ❤ you Never ever take our Katie away 🎵 ☀️ 🐿 🍌 🐑

[@KatieKookaburra]

🥹 thank you John

[@martincook7195]

Audax seems an ideal think to do. Organised locally by cyclists for cyclist. There are far too many commercially organised events with silly entry fees etc. You can't keep spending out on these fees. Very similar in the running scene. Local club runs or enter LDWA events (long distance walking Assoc)very similar off road with clues and foodie check points where time is not important.

[@KatieKookaburra]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! Totally. I would say these are the Parkrun of the cycling world - all for the love of the sport and no-one making profit from it.

[@danielberry1635]

1:20 THAT BLOKE MADE A NOISE HE WAS GOING THAT FAST LOOOOL

[@Neilhuny]

He really zoomed past!

[@denlsgoulden2307]

Looks like a blast, if there's ever one local to me I'd love a go 😊

[@KatieKookaburra]

There are local rides ALL OVER. Check the Audax UK website!!!! and let me know if you do.

[@denlsgoulden2307]

@@KatieKookaburra Hi Katie, I've looked into Audaxes , ones around here seem to be s bit adventurous for first timers. Anyways I'm looking into cycling clubs right now and see where that leads me . 😊

[@kevinlyon9501]

So just to clarify Katie likes an Audax, certainly a very picturesque part of the country to ride through. Cafe stop = beans on toast.😋

[@KatieKookaburra]

I think I might have got that across in the video but not sure haha

[@peterneumann7145]

What about the brevit cards Katie ? Still got all mine including pbp

[@KatieKookaburra]

I don’t keep any of them hahaha! 😛

[@scottf3456]

There must be a lot of this sort of thing going on in the UK compared to my area in the US because I have never seen anything like this going on or advertised in any way ever. Yet it seems like there is audax every weekend in the UK.

[@KatieKookaburra]

There will be but think it's call Randoneering in the UK. Enjoy looking for an event here: rusa.org

[@wooly2450]

Never done an audax but looks really good. Only been cycling two years and doing my 2nd London 100 in May. How do you follow the routes if you don’t have a garmin etc? Love the idea of these 👌(obvs love coffee and food!!!😂)

[@batporio]

I used to follow turn by turn voice navigation from my phone over single wireless headphone. It can get tricky on some roundabouts but generally is doable.

[@KatieKookaburra]

Well…. You will love this… You can print out the route sheet. So it’s a list of directions. Loads of riders still use them :)

[@thepupsdontlie9930]

Love the garmin gilet where’s it from 😊

[@KatieKookaburra]

It's nice isn't it 🙂 It's actually a jacket. But got it direct from Garmin and don't think they sell them.

[@thepupsdontlie9930]

@@KatieKookaburra can I have your one 😊😂❤️

[@Neilhuny]

What was it you all heard, that echoed around the place at ~6:28? I could hear something and, given the reaction, it was either a big belch or a big botty burp, I guess. Actually, it doesn't really matter - for either one to be heard at the distance you guys were from those sitting down, it was quite a feat - of sorts

[@KatieKookaburra]

🤪🤪🤪 the lower variety 🤣

[@Neilhuny]

@@KatieKookaburra WOW! Both hideous and extraordinary

[@dennisbaron5680]

All that are familiar to me, you are right , those are the best cafes in the area

[@KatieKookaburra]

These are your locals roads?!! Lucky lucky man :)

[@dennisbaron5680]

@@KatieKookaburra well I live in Sicily now , the cafe culture here is different, you should come and try , maybe the peripolo , where people ride the circumference of Sicily 1000 km, not all in a day !!

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

They exist all over the world. We have rides from 100 to 600 km in length here.

[@lancegallardo5519]

Beans and Toast? Ehole! I am trying to wrap my tortilla-oriented Mexican American brain around this concept of eating frijoles on flat white bread.

[@KatieKookaburra]

Hahahaha it's defo a British thing eh? haha

[@lancegallardo5519]

@@KatieKookaburra An acquired taste, I am sure! keep up the great work. You don't know how much inspiration you are to getting me and other Noobs on our bikes (Road & Mountain Bikes),

[@lancegallardo5519]

@@KatieKookaburra You have to do what is best for you Katie in this Sweet life. Anyone who gives a six pence about you, will support you with Love and Prayers if your life path leads you away from all of this.

[@lancegallardo5519]

@@KatieKookaburra I love this song, by the Band Cake, "End of the Movie" not a suggestion, just a funny song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2rCdZuEmb2Foqs

[@daverigby23]

This brings back so many memories, I used to live in Whalley, then later on in Grindleton

[@AndyWalton-o4i]

I don’t wish to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but I would point out that there is 1 single Audax event in the entire South of England (south of London) according to the Audax website list of events…

[@KatieKookaburra]

Whaaaaa?!! No - make sure the filters are working and you have changed the dates to be the next 100 days perhaps…

[@malcontent_1]

...and supporting small local businesses

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yassssssssss! And Co-ops 🙃🙃

[@malcontent_1]

@@KatieKookaburra hmm I wonder what a US equivalent of your co-op would be. So many of your sayings don't translate directly, which is fine.

[@pamester]

@malcontent510 Co-Op’s are little convenience stores and most rural towns and some larger villages will have one (including the village I live in!). Because they provide resources to rural communities and Audax’s often go through lovely smaller places they’ve achieved cult status amongst cyclists here! Hope this helps! ☺️

[@malcontent_1]

@@pamester yeah, I didn't think we have anything like that here in the SF Bay Area

[@charlesbradford7233]

What is the difference between an audox and a cycling tour we have in the states. Really except for you i have never heard of an audox, we don't have them in the states.

[@malcontent_1]

Same, I've never heard that term in California. And even if I had there's _no way_ it would be that affordable here in the SF Bay Area!

[@willd8985]

seems like this is similar to what RUSA clubs run as a "brevet."

[@KatieKookaburra]

You do but they are called Randonnees I think :)

[@KatieKookaburra]

Yessss that’s it - and the in the US think you call them randonerring :)

[@nextsibling]

There are many Audax equivalent events in the USA. Look up Randonneurs USA (RUSA).

[@darrellwhittle862]

They are NOT cheap. Rather, they offer incredible value for money due to the fantastic effort of organisers and volunteers. Your choice of words does not do them justice.

[@KatieKookaburra]

Agreed!

[@Quizmate1]

Compared to Sportives I think they're pretty cheap!

[@darrellwhittle862]

@Quizmate1 Maybe organisers should charge a more commercial rate to fully cover their hidden costs and unpaid voluntary hours? I've already invested several hundred pounds this year, up front with no guarantee I'll even cover my costs. I've even been questioned why I'm charging as much as £8 for one event. I don't find it cheap and don't like the conotations the word conveys. "Fantastic value" please.

[@davy_grvl]

I’ve ridden a few here in Belgium. I would love the option to give a bit more if the cost of organizing isn’t covered at all. Why not tell people what the actual average cost is and have a tipping box somewhere at the finish location?

[@christiangrosspietsch6278]

Pssssst, don‘t tell em…

[@phoffen3829]

OK, first of all, in my part of the world, the only Audaxes (Randonnées) that are less than about 200, are so early in the year, there is ice on the roads, that it is virtually impossible to take part in my opinion. Therefore only the hardcores do it, because nobody wants their first Audax to be 200 km. From what I have seen, there is no atmosphere either, like you have in the UK. So you are talking to British people when you say all this.

[@phoffen3829]

I will go further and say that all group rides I have been on, involve food stops that consist of standing on the side of a road eating Clif Bars, if at all. Not a lot of fun. Ride by yourself. It is a better experience.

[@grahamelliott6041]

Cyclists, "Drivers shouldn't use their phones when they're driving, it's against the law"

[@KatieKookaburra]

Not sure of your point here?

[@grahamelliott6041]

@@KatieKookaburra cyclists can’t complain about drivers using their phones while driving, and then use a phone while cycling

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

​@@grahamelliott6041in our area, if you use a phone while on a bicycle, you can be cited with a 300 USD fine or driving school.

[@78James]

How many people are killed each year by cyclists on their phones?

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

@@78James it's not the number killed but the number of injuries that need not happen. It's the same as riding drunk with a blood alcohol level near 2.0ml/dl

[@timcollins340]

Love Audax - I'm hoping to get into organising.