Sounds like I was fortunate to get a flat when I did. At least I had an excuse to stop...I got about 1k over Oliver's when the Hell Rider's passed me on the other side of the road...lot's of red faces amonng the pack, but man were they moving.

BTW, I road from Dromana to Blairgowrie with a bloke who was also doing a training run for Warnie. He started with the Hell Ride and said he got to the top of Oliver's first on the day but was swamped. I actually thought it was ed for a while cause he is a former Amatuer rider who spent some time in Europe riding for a club there. I worked out he wasn't ed after we discussed his ride in Warnie.

FYI Hitchy, this is his 6th and they added the extra 50k's for this ride. He reckons you'll be in unbearable pain for the first 250k's and then it'll just get worse!!