Originally Posted by
njkayaker
Was the 400k an old permanent? If it was an organized brevet, the route shouldn't have used the closed bridges. An organized brevet shouldn't need to be pre-ridden.
It was a new route, first time it was run. I'd set off to pre-ride it in 2020 but my saddle rails snapped and I turned back for home... never really got the chance to do it. The road
looked fine on streetview but since 2011 the road has been downgraded to gravel and the bridge was closed to car traffic with concrete blocks, still passable on foot/bike I guess. Wouldn't have been able to know that without pre-riding it since rwgps/google still route cyclists that way. There was also a culvert getting replaced along the route that wasn't on google maps. Not really easy to find some of this out without pre-riding.