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

Quite remarkable.

Fantastic ride! Chapeau @skinny you are an inspiration!

Woooooo!

Storming ride. Go @skinny. New no. 1 hero.

Well done @skinny. Mission accomplished!

@skinny your awesome x

Congratulations @skinny - just stunning, and amazing effort from all the TCR riders.

Amazing effort @skinny, congrats!

What an epic achievement!

Chapeau @skinny !

Top work @skinny

The tracker timestamps are inconclusive (see below) but it'd be splitting hairs to not say that Skinny won by a country.

The tracker update that had Skinny at the finish was timestamped 21:18. The one at 21:11 had him 1.2km short.

At 21:08 Bjorn was in FYROM. Next tracker update (just over the border into Greece) was at 21:15.

It also depends on how accurate the border is on that map.

Close enough for me (and I'm a pedant).

huge fan of yellow

Now. Lets bring @hippy home

@skinny bloody kudos!!! You will have a lot of pints from the forum once you come back (most likely take @hippy crown for beer king soon)

(Clapping emoji) x 5

What colour does it go for Hippy ? :)

Congrats to skinny :)

Astounding

http://road.cc/content/news/227223-james-hayden-wins-transcontinental-race-no-5

What colour does it go for Hippy ? :)

Hmm, good question.

Either red for #gooch or a brown for beer.

The style of skinny's win might be lost in the talk of how fast he did it, but he's won the race being humble, consistent and sportsman-like.

Flip it upsidedown to show he's a Straya-Cunt

I think this line from the race report sticks out

Speaking to James it became clear that after he had alerted the race organisation he had tried to alert Björn Lenhard who was not far behind him. When the race team spoke to Björn at CP4 today he explained James had contacted him directly to let him know to avoid the road but he hadn’t seen the calls and texts so he found himself in the same situation as James, stuck on a dangerous road and frightened for his life.

Top bloke.

Over the slightly less than nine days, he spent around six days 23 hours on the bike, and 12 minutes shy of 48 hours stopped, including sleep.

FML. Machine!

Nah, just put a nice frothy head on the gold