Transcontinental Race No. 5 - TCR5 - #TCRN05 - 2017

I see it too. If you use the replay slider on trackleaders and take it back a bit, then press play, you can see it looks like he rested for a while.

Ta.

Skinny resting from storms, is this choosing discretion over valour, given yesterdays sad news? A few others were tweeting they made route changes to avoid roads & pick up cyclepaths.

hippy entertaining with the tweets as ever:

https://twitter.com/firsthippy/status/891721123586387968

Sensible tactics. Whenever he stops he will be tired enough to sleep. May as well do it early when the storm comes, then early start and ride when it's over.

the hit and run driver has turned theselves in according to the Facebook group

Some filthy weather by the looks of some of videos being posted as well, heavy summer rain

Especially as it's a proper storm, none of the uk style "2 rumbles and nowt else" thunder.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXL2kC1FsF4/

That's in Honau, though, a long way north of where skinny and Geoffroy are.

Dalgas and Goy have overtaken them and kept on riding through whatever is happening there.

It may just have been part of skinny's planned rest stop pattern?

I think the storm is on both sides of the Alps. Camille just (2 hours ago) posted this picture of Bjorn. https://instagram.com/p/BXLspFHna4W/

@Cycliste is in Switzerland and says it's properly grim weather out there.

Ah yes, hadn't checked riders location just pickedup tweet. Still the mountain storms will be big near cp2.

When I visited Stary Smokovec at a similar time of year each afternoon ended with a proper banger. (Edit mixing up my cp's but more storms might await at cp3 so i'll leave this!)

It may just have been part of skinny's planned rest stop pattern?

Tweet suggests hed be riding if conditions safer?
https://twitter.com/JamesMarkHayden/status/891735071811665920

New to the forum, I have a question, what is the significance of the red line at the controls? Thanks

It hasn't been talked about much, but I assume it's the bonus climb attached to every CP. They have to do that after they check in at the CP. From memory, last year they were actually defined as separate CPs? Looking back at last year's map, they no longer show up like that, probably because the software has changed to accommodate the organisers' wish to no longer have it as a full CP but as that kind of adjunct to it?

Wow, that's a rather big storm, then.

Cheers, I hadn't looked at his Tweets. Goy has jumped to second in the meantime. He's in Bolzano.

boomboom having a little mechanical

You think walking in cleats it's hard? Try walking in cleats with a crank stuck to your shoe #tcrno5

Liam changing plans, I assume in light of the news about Frank https://twitter.com/liamtglen/status/891863910835515392

Gareth scratched too: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXIeeXuhML9/?taken-by=gareth_baines

@skinny is on the move with blue skys!

https://twitter.com/JamesMarkHayden/status/891883856000946176

On Freeroute, what is the difference between Track/Route and Route Speed vs Moving Speed?

As mentioned they are the mandatory parcours, bits of route that must be ridden in a specified direction. They can be done before or after the CP, so you see riders doing both, I think they are always "interesting" bits of road, normally climbs

Haha superb

Did you get an answer Oliver? I know her from the Tuesday Tens ; well she did one very powerfully, Gary , Mr Hub Velo, posted a picture of her on their Instagram account. I will see if I can find it.

What's the deal with Ukraine visas and roads? We likely to see anyone route that way and avoid Hungary?

Karen Toast. She's on an Orro Pyro, I presume bought from them as they're a stockist. That's all I know.

Track is what is taken from track leaders. Route is the estimated real distance as it guesses which roads you went on. For example track leaders tends to underestimate quick descents with lots of bends as the tracker doesn't update quick enough