Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

@bananaskid You're doing brilliantly, keep going, eat allll the pasta!

Jumbo Coke!

Chapeau! Some nice down hill to look forward to after lunch

how are people charging all of the things? saw some people even had two GPS. so that'd be: phone, two GPS, plus tracker to charge all on limited time and sockets at stops. do majority use some form of on-bike dynamo charging?

Most use dynamo, rest charges everything at hotels, restaurants etc whenever you stop.

If i had a child and they wanted an adventure after college this is exactly the sort of life experience that would sort their head out for what they want in life. Apart from another bowl of pasta.

One of the German guys had a cracking rim-Dynamo that's as light as anything, attached to a steerer-based charging gizmo. Looked like a really nice, light solution. I think it was devised on a German forum iirc

Bottle dynamo? interesting, stem based charger was probably Le plug, they seem problematic and burn out on fast descents from what I've heard.
(Was talking shite)

Hippy on the charge: "Watch me negatively split #TCRNo4"

I'm actually enjoying this far more than the Tour de France this year,

this.

Must be a big boost psychologically to be out of the mountains.

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed in one of the dynamo threads
Edit: I think it's called the forumslader https://www.lfgss.com/comments/11853549/

Great work. Chapeau. Hope you're happily fuelled now.

Do you even winter olympic?

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@hippy and @Samuli were so close just now they could have smelt each other.

That's the feller, the bottle Dynamo was crazy small/light too. Indeed, it's the velogical mentioned in that thread. http://www.velogical-engineering.com/rim-dynamo-en-1

The only problem with the velogical is that your wheel has to be bang-on true. Showstopper as far as I'm concerned.

I wonder if you could run it on the brake disc, it'd be going much more slowly than the wheel rim but would keep it out of the way and it's very unusual for a brake disc to go out of true.

This thing.
http://www.velogical-engineering.com/rim-dynamo-en-1

Why is that? Surely it could be spring mounted, so that its always in contact with the wheel. Isnt that how bottle dynamos used to function.

Top work, geezer! Amazing things you are doing; stay strong.

Apparently it has tighter margins and needs to be pressed quite hard on the rim to work properly. Read that in a test which I'll try to find again :)

Ah ok thanks

Kristof is cycling through some stunning valleys as he approaches cp4

Skinny is going to catch up with 9th and 8th rider by the look of things