Talk:Randonneuring

message: I've extensively rewritten this article to improve clarity, grammar, typos, etc. To complete the job, it needs clarification -
* Brevet - an event that is 200 kilometers or more and must be completed between a specific date and time. [- does the rider have a choice of when to ride this, or is it held on a specific date each year?]
The BREVET is set up by the coordinator for the region and approved by the national.  For example RUSA.org is the national and you can go to their site for a calendar of the brevets for the year.  Therefore the rider does not have a choice of when to do a BREVET.  The time is chosen by the local coordinator (RBA) and submitted to the national/RUSA.ORG.  Some brevets are recognized internatinoally by the ACP (french organization)
* Permanent or Raid - an event similar to a brevet but having an arbitrary start date. [- does the rider have a range of dates available, or can it be ridden on any date during the year?]
There is a PERMANENT OWNER that is approved by the US RUSA.ORG.  TO ride a permanent the rider must get permission from the perm owner.  In general the ride time is open enough to say that these rides can be done nearly any time of the year.  Not sure about a RAID
can be ridden at any time but the organizer may want to be notified of the date in advance 87.114.6.10 18:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification required

message: Thinking about reorganizing this page to stipulate the two different styles of randonneuiring (allure libre and audax)...  
Possibly use this page for the general "shared" and history of randonneuring and point the "meat" of eacy specific style into their own pages allure libre and Audax (cycling).
Suggestions?
: I am not this approach will work.  What you refer to as 'allure libre' is exactly what Audax cycling in Australia (and elsewhere as far as I know) now refers to.  Imposing an historical difference on the current day sport will create ongoing confusion.  Everyone who does the PBP and Audax rides (in Australia at least) rides according to the allure libre style, yet nobody uses that term.  The first time I encountered it was in this (and associated) Wikipedia articles.   Peter Campbell 01:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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That is going or will still be a point of distinction.
The RUSA.ORG site makes it a clear distinction as so does all of the history that I can dig up from various web pages which talk about the history of the two styles.
I think for the point of clarity that I'm not going to try to stuff the terms into peoples throats but as long as there is the Union des Audax see http://www.audax-uaf.com/ exists then the audax style is still practiced... Latin is a dead language but that doesn't mean people don't toss it in their normal speech.
I think that simply stating that the two types are allure libre and audax and that there is confusion to the point that they are interchangeable is all we need to do...
What you are suggesting is we bury any notion that audax does not exist which I do not think is accurate 
For example while you are an honest to goodness allure libre randonneur (as am I) the french (as I stated in france and holland are where it is still practiced) will dissagree with you... As I would had agreed with you a few months ago before I started this edit...
Here is the french wiki site that lists the last of the AUDAX paris brest paris rides and as you can see the last one was in 2006 (though not sure why the times were not recorded)...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Brest-Paris_Audax
So while us Americans and you down-unders still butcher the AUDAX does not mean that it is still in practice... And, according to the french, the correct term...
But I am planning to do a light pen to make it easy on the eyes not to be confused as everyone except the hardest frenchy is indeed confused :) Prestonjb 04:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of this page

message: The third paragraph under "History" makes the claim that The Tour de France was organized as a "randonneuring event", with randonneuring being defined at the beginning of the article as "non-competitive". I think this combination is misleading to the reader.
I think it's more accurate to say that both Paris-Brest-Paris and its subsequent rival, the Tour de France, began as bicycle races, with the Paris-Brest-Paris eventually catering to non-professional cyclotourists, while bicycle racing in general, along with the Tour de France, started to feature shorter distances for events and event stages.
Mike 20:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: There's overlap with randonneur and audax here. Do people think it would be good to merge the pages?
Parsonscat (talk) 18:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion