A bikepacking brevet might be a serious undertaking from a planning and fitness perspective, especially when one spends an entire weekend riding up hills. However, as a race, Le Petit Brevet is not serious. Yes people start at the same time following the instructions of someone standing on a park bench, and this year, people recorded their finishing times via our website.
All very un-serious like.
This year the results started flowing in and then every now and then a post would appear on Strava with some outrageous set of data and GPS tracks.
Below we have the results laid out for you based on event distance. As well as some nice graphs and then finally, some of the magnificent banter that was included in riders submissions. Please enjoy. NB: These results are the ones submitted via the website as at 13/11/24.
200km - A nice weekend out: Results
Saturday | Time of day |
Ryan Hayston | 15:58 |
Grant Guise | 16:43 |
Ash Holwell | 17:47 |
Justin Freeman | 18:39 |
Harry Dalzell | 19:13 |
Nicole Hutchinson | 19:17 |
Parker Carruthers | 19:17 |
Ryan Douglas | 19:17 |
Jamie Mountier | 19:18 |
William Findlay | 19:18 |
Hamish Dephoff | 20:15 |
Adam Gillespie | 20:52 |
James Harvey | 20:52 |
Kim Hendrie | 21:05 |
Alan Palmer | 22:37 |
Sunday | |
Brian Alder | 13:27 (300km course Saturday, 200km Sunday) |
Penn Trevella | 14:30 |
Kerry Templeton | 15:30 |
Matt Lucas | 15:30 |
Catherine Scoular | 17:00 |
Finished their own adventure | |
Andrew Lamborn | |
Mark Rickerby | |
Adrienne Crowe |
300km - The Original (plus some): Results
Saturday | Time of day |
Charles Smart | 21:20 (New FKT) |
James Ashley | 23:17 |
Sunday | Time of day |
Andrew Laurie | 3:33 |
Will Mathieson | 5:20 |
Ruth Cornelius | 5:39 |
Chris Allman | 5:51 |
Doug Hilson | 5:53 |
Evan Caygill | 9:30 |
Errol Bebbington | 9:59 |
Adam Morris | 10:46 |
Sam Horgan | 12:20 |
Mike Tong | 12:41 |
Lester Perry | 12:42 |
Malcolm Cleland | 12:50 |
Felicity Hayman | 13:06 |
Gillian Hatch | 13:30 |
Alan Christensen | 14:41 |
Hamish Southcott | 15:02 |
Annamarie Lipp | 16:54 |
Geoff Walker | 17:10 |
Finished their own adventure | |
Alex Rose | |
Errol Bebbington | |
James Rennie |
Congratulations to Charles for setting a new FKT! How good, that will take some effort and perfect conditions to beat.
Now for the good bit, the banter, the stories as told by you...
A very special thank you to everyone who took the time to record their ride and share a story or two with us. (NB: I have removed personal details so you can just enjoy)
Skipped the purple people eater track into Akaroa in favour of securing a $5 burger |
That was ruff. First time trying anything like it and really proud that I finished. High lights were finding some awesome new road I never been on before. And low points was the rain and so many gates to jump on the double fence line track. |
My story is two good days out! Total 4 bottles of choco milk consumed, carried a stack of mini savouries in my feed feed bag, which was a terrible idea, they aren’t that good cold. 🤮 Intended to ride nonstop, completely forgetting how hard this ride is, got to Akaroa as that southerly hit, promptly changed plan and made it to Duvachelles. Overall happy with the ride, improved lots on last years one, so happy with that. Met some cool people, which is what this day is event is about! |
My gear cable broke so I rode the last 50km with some very manual gear changes! |
5 naive men set off into wild. Many laughs, tears and swear words were had. 5 cooked men returned already plotting for next time. |
Ends up if you stop all the time you lose A LOT of time 😆 Amazing couple of day but that's honestly such a brutal course. Loved double fence line 👌 |
I've been thinking about the FKT since I moved back to Christchurch last year, especially after Joe's epic videos chasing it. But I never could have hoped for such fast conditions: warm, tailwinds, and they even mowed the grass for us coming down Purple Peak? 🤯 I set out quite hard, hoping to get a gap and hold it through double-fenceline where I expected to lose time with my roadie skills and rigid fork. Everything went smoothly though, until Big Hill, where my stomach refused to accept any more sour patch kids and I cracked and learned why it's named that. I dragged myself into Akaroa, checked the clock, and was shocked to see 2:30pm. Two hours ahead of schedule. That mental boost combined with a bag of corn chips to replace the salt I'd lost made the leg back long but manageable, almost enjoyable. Rolled back into Hansens Park at 9:20. There were even a few people setting off fireworks, a real finish line party. |
Bossu road is like the night of the living possums |
Set myself goal of under 24hrs - looked like I might even make 22 but then my Wahoo went flat so despite having studied the route I was naving off my phone. Then my second head torch battery went pretty much flat at the top of the Bastard…turned it off to conserve it for rapaki..so used phone light for summit road…then at top of Rapaki tried torch, but it was a gonner. So propped phone torch in my snack bag. Fun riding Rapaki in the dark on a gravel bike… Great company on the course until everyone disappeared around Little River 😂. |
My first bike event ever and first time on the peninsula. super sick riding out with so many into the wild unknown. ol mate on the single speed and marcus who killed the downhill were companions for a while though most of the day was out alone and generally loving it other than a few spicey points of ‘never do the 300km, you’ll think it’s a good idea but remember this moment.’ Stupidest moment: trying out a pinch of homemade electrolyte powder and forgetting it had baking soda in it, proceeding to froth 1.5L of coke out of the top of my bladder all over the street outside the four square, amongst the mothers protecting their children and the elders sharing their sage lotto number schemes. we have learnt a lot. What an incredible time, had a bloody blast - thanks a tonne for putting it on and guess the OG next year as those moments are fading fast. Chur. |
Southerland front came through Little River just in time to scoop me all the way back to Tai Tapu. Big day on the tools! |
My longest ride, and the most very I’ve ever climbed in one day by 3000m. A beautiful ride, an epic journey through the day. An event, regardless of the course that attracts the coolest and raddest of humans. Thanks to all the lads out there I got to meet, chat with, and suffer with. |
Rode the 300 OG as far as Akaroa, rode the 200 to get home. 275km & ~7000m for the weekend |
Epic weekend on the Peninsula. I was determined to make it an enjoyable experience so stayed the night in a cabin at Duvauchelle Holiday Park. Met some great people along the way. Kudos to everyone involved. |
Thanks for being here
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