Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

Hungry?

Clearly.

So same time, different finish order. Fair.

@hippy yes co-ords are changable. profile>navigation>routing

ta mate

Hep A / Hep B
Typhoid
DTP
Tick Borne Encephalitis
Rabies

Like a boss! pincushion

bet you feel like shit tomorrow.

Tetanus booster?

DTP = diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus.

In about 2 or 3 years you'll be completely up on all the vaccination terms.

Nah - we're going for crystals and reiki immunisation. We don't want our child growing up with illuminautismercury, thanks.

That will be because of tonight's pub quiz regardless.

Hippy do you want to borrow my back wheel?

That's very kind of you but I bought a jra wheel and the hub -might- be arriving soon, so I'll probably have too many wheels shortly.

We're extending our O2 Travel service. From 14 July 2016, you can now get all the minutes, texts and data you need in 30 countries outside Europe for £4.99 a day (£3.99 a day in Turkey). And we only charge you for the days you use it.

Find out more: http://s.o2.co.uk/PVeIR2Cl

Usage terms apply.

Thanks good that.

Shame were leaving the EU huh, phone use in the EU was going to be free from next year.

We aren't leaving the EU.

WE'll see about that.
I sent off the Article 50 notice recorded delivery yesterday.

No worries, similarly if there's anything else you want to borrow, luggage, garmin, lights etc then no problem.

We're extending our O2 Travel service. From 14 July 2016, you can now get all the minutes, texts and data you need in 30 countries outside Europe for £4.99 a day (£3.99 a day in Turkey). And we only charge you for the days you use it.

Cheaper to use their default roaming rates (EU regulated) than buy the daily package (unless using loads of data)

Racist.

Legend!

I still don't have a clue what I'm going to end up taking. I tested a Revelate framebag but I don't like it messing with my knees so will have to stick to the smaller Deuter bag. I have a Revelate top tube bag that might stay - it seems to work ok, even if the velcro is too short for my headtube. The other thing I'm considering is a handlebar bag to go under the aerobars or some feed bags - did you use anything like this? I'm sure there's a pic of your bike somewhere I need to look at.

I'm thinking about taking a larger battery pack - I have an Anker 6400 but I see there are some 10000+ units that are more robust and allow through charging so might be able to be left on the dyno.

The dyno and lights need testing - no idea how these are going to be wired up. I'll probably fuck that up.

Lots of little bits and pieces I will have to try and jam into the saddle pack or the little frame bag.

If you're in the EU it'll just top out at £x/day and if you're outside the EU in one of their specified countries it'll top out at £4.99/day, no? I presumed you don't need to do anything, they're basically just telling you they've created daily caps for some countries instead of charging the crazy £6/mb rate.

I used Apidura- their small frame bag is unobtrusive as long as your bottles don't foul it, but even with small bottles extracting them is a pain so I used the apidura nosh bag thing on my handlebars to hold a main bottle, only accessing the frame bottles to change over when the bar bottle was empty. I didn't run aero bars, but wish I had as they give you more storage options- particularly for a sleeping bag, Id use a dry bag rather than handle bar bag at the front though to be honest- I have a very good event dry bag that is easy to squeeze air out of. Give me a shout if you want to try anything out.

Can anyone recall if the road heading into CP4 Pluzine directly from the west is usable or is everyone heading up the E762 and then briefly doubling back into Pluzine? I think it was a 'local only' border crossing, no?

I've seen, though not ridden with Apidura framebags and I think I'd have the same issue. I really don't like anything touching my knees when riding.

nosh bag = https://www.apidura.com/product/food-pouch-regular/ ?

I've got a couple of small S2S drybags that I bought intending to strap under aerobars with sleep kit in and a larger one I have been using in the Revelate saddle pack. I guess I need to see my bike first to play with mounting options because I don't know what cables are around and what stuff might foul, etc.