Transcontinental Race No. 6 - TCR6 - #TCRN06 - 2018

Just the site I believe.

Safe riding all. Race hard but let’s have you all home afterwards. Best of luck

It's Emily racing this year?

Good luck everyone and stay safe
Alx

Info on the Brompton

https://twitter.com/ChptIII/status/1023652270112755718

James already in the lead !!!!

guess hippy wasn't kidding about sleeping in g'bergen tonight?

So we have some Northern variations?

suspect they're north then west along to the rhine valley then all the way south to Basel. Would expect a fair number of riders currently heading southwest to be heading towards the Rhine valley too, albeit on a more direct route.

I love seeing the start when riders spread out in different directions!
Same happened last year with a few heading north-east towards Brussels, aiming to pick up the Rhine valley. It saves some climbing but it's a lot longer.

The route I had planned was further west than most of the riders, going into France quite early to dodge the hilly Ardennes. A few km longer but saved a good bit of up and down.

Skinny was up over the Muur first, by a significant margin.

Hippy looking good too

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Nm, I just hadn’t zoomed in so looked like everyone was in one place still.

Hippy is already not updating... his dot is 52 minutes stale already, oh well.

Great hair though :)

Well, there’s nothing that looks like a pub where Hippy’s stopped at.... (tracker off?)

wonder where isobel yobling (224) is off to?

Surprised by the amount of people that headed north from the start.

It's updating again. I assume he's plotted a less hilly route than skinny et al. Or he's already lost again.

Björn and James very close together, hoovering up the early goers-for-it, like Stéphane.

Matthew Falconer jumped ahead earlier but now seems to have taken a completely different route to everybody else.

This is why this race is so great.

skinny's now gone past everyone except for Craig Bachelor, who is on a very different route. Björn far behind at the moment (but obviously likely to catch up).

Yes, I think it's what I like about the TCR the best.

I wonder what cap 150 is up to - he's headed south west and is in on the French side already...

interesting that bernd paul and matt falconer (15 & 5) are taking a similar direction. Those guys are experienced - wonder what they've seen in that particular route.

122 and 140 look to be going through bastogne in a really hilly region, with 208 maybe following a similar route. Tough climbing round that way.