Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

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turnpedal in reply to @GoatandTricycle

However using terminology that is perhaps emotive like purism, is a little absurd. All rules are applied subjectively by referees trying to be as objective as possible. I’ve said before that a lot of the rules that I’ve read seem slightly ill thought out. This will undoubtedly change as they evolve.

Fair enough, maybe a bit too emotive, but I think that allowing any small detours and mistakes, and not being absolute about riding the ENTIRE route, has opened doors for leniency that other races like Tour Divide have not opened. That's entirely up to the admin of TABR, I get that.

Obviously if there's a road closed or bridge out, then detours are allowed, as all racers or at least all racers around that time period, would have the same route, but individual deviance is breaking the rules in my books.

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Rule #1: No complaining about the rules.

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GoatandTricycle in reply to @turnpedal

I can see your point. It’s a difficult balance. DNF’ing someone who took a slight wrong turn for no gain over 4000km seems a bit harsh to me.
Also logistically hard to adjudicate once you get in to the minutiae; ie someone cycling back to a junction should they turn the wrong way initially to then recover the full route by looping back to cross the junction fully? Then you have issues with how it’s judge from a technical perspective that the trackers aren’t always that accurate etc.

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