Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

Darren Franks has bumped into skinny going up Furkapass.

https://twitter.com/darrenfranks/status/760576559979827205

Hippy is apparently eating pizza and drinking beer.

https://twitter.com/firsthippy/status/760577667552903169

144 has climbed the Stelvio just because it is there, Chapeau! And started the descent to Bormio, Ouch! Seems he is now heading back in the right direction.

whoa! brutal

5.7km at 14%.

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Good luck!

@Keiway#152 is regretting his life choices:

Stéphane Mehdi Ouaja
24 mins · Arosa, Switzerland
At any cost, don't let people go where I am
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Transcontinental.en/permalink/1187275214656485/

After he got to the top, he didn't descend by the most entertaining route though. Maybe it was getting dark for all those harpins

He isn't at the top yet but it seems stopped at around 2000m. I really hope he is okay.

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cold, dark, tiny, steep trails... what could go wrong? I just hope he's got a warm enough set up for hunkering down till its light.

I was thinking about #144 - got to the top of the Stelvio and then didn't turn left for the entertaining ride down. Yeah, #152 seems to be a little stuck right now!

This rider is heading West again :-/

Carlos is looking like he'll make CP3 in second place with a bit of a lead over third, cracking ride!

@Keiway#152 was, apparently, exhausted last night and giving up on a top 10 finish. Hope his position is deliberate and not the result of an exhausted miscalculation.

Thankfully @Keiway#152 is on the move again, and now making his way down what looks like a well defined gravel track. Looks like a couple of slightly sketchy edges up ahead but so long as he sticks on the path he should be fine. Also a couple of small agricultural buildings just ahead if he wants to stick it out until morning.

Also @Oranj welcome to LFGSS :-)

He posted "At any cost, don't let people go where I am" to fb an hour ago.
Hope he is at that restaurant, resting.
Pushing a bike up there, at night, after all those kms is unbelievable.

Hippy's on the move again.

https://twitter.com/firsthippy/status/760611788228616192

According to the tracker he was at the yellow pause sign 2hrs ago (2301), and was then at the hotel an hour and a half later (0041) where he wandered around the carpark for a few minutes before continuing down the hill. Presumably the hotel was shut? FB won't give me the exact timestamp of the post but it looks like he was posting from the very top of the pass! Very scary, and I hope he's not too cold!

He's right outside some buildings now. I wonder if he'll stop.

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Hippo's already drawing close to Brescia, seems to be riding through the night.

@Keiway#152 now at the next hotel/restaurant down, and even if they are closed then he's only a couple of hundred metres above Davos and on increasingly clear paths.

@skinny is flying... now up to 27th! Looks like he's beaten his chest infection, I just hope he doesn't go too hard.

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@hippy what must surely be fattest ever Larrington in history is coming to an end soon so he is resting in a hotel.

@Keiway#152 made it to Davos now on the Flüela pass for breakfast in the Engadin.

When will Hippy cut back towards CP3?
I spy more scatalogical place names - "Arsie"

Rider 144 seems to be back on route.

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@ewanmac thanks. I had a login here years ago, thought I'd drop by and join in the fun.

Perhaps #152 wanted to recreate the flavour of last year's TCR with those gravel sections.

patman159 on Instagram is running a series of photos of "bikes of #tcrno4 "

Interesting to see the huge variety of set ups.