Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

Haven't you stopped at other supermarket? Or did you take your bike inside?

Normally petrol station or restaurant. Supermarket is only place it’s really out of visibility for more than a moment.

The slope of the hippy's line climbing up towards Lochsa Lodge doesn't look good, much shallower than anyone else. By my guess he'll be there in half an hour or so and we'll get a tweetspaff with an update.

Hope everything is ok and can be sorted by some rest & beer. Go hippy!

He weighs at least 5× more than any other competitor so getting his titanic mass up those hills is going to be slow. Let's hope he'll crush them on the downhill/flat!

Those following him will find the hills ironed out.

Marcel Graber in the velomobile is hitting high speeds in sections, it is steadily moving him through the pack.

It's only a 1% gradient to the Lodge, gets steeper after that up to Lolo Pass but I assume he'll have a nice rest at the Lodge (he should have just got there I guess). Will await the tweetspaff.

Achilles is fucked by the sounds of it.
Chatter about jacking it in.
Hoping it's normal hippo negativity online followed by beastly positivity onroad.

Hope he is ok.

The incline up to Lolo pass is gentle but 100 miles long!

Looks like he was tweeting when hangry again. Bet he carries on once he’s filled his stomach.

There's fuck all until you get to the Lodge -then short sharp climb into Montana then looong downhill (via an Indian reservation gas station/casino).

Big Hole beckons!

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He never quits.

I know, I’m trolling.

I know you know. Perhaps it was for the others.

close pics of Rushton's bike here.

Scoblestack and what is the half-bottle thing?

DIY seatpack with an integrated rear light? Bonkers. I thought it was a tiny sleep mat when I first saw it in a different picture. Bodged stem bag with a bit of string running through the stem clamp is mad too.

@yokes @Samuli I thought it might be something like that. Apart from sleeping I guess most of the stops you aim to be as quick as possible.

Rhino has been quiet on Instagram. Hope he is not scratching.

Got a non FB copy?

https://imgur.com/mq8rBdp & https://imgur.com/FfCIilA

Thanks

Second pic can’t be unseen

And I thought more than X amount of carbon steerer was unsafe and am now looking at embarrassing stems. Unless that aero bike has an aluminium one.