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

Not too late.

http://www.aukweb.net/events/pbp/

Join AUK if you haven't already.

Ride as long a BRM ride as you can in 2018 in order to get early pre-registration (go to the calendar and change the 'Category' to 'RM only', there are still a bunch left in 2018.) Not having a BRM ride in 2018 may mean you miss out on a place.

Then in 2019 you ride the SR series (200, 300, 400, 600) within the windows specified (i.e. you must ride you 200 between 12th January and 28th April, so there's plenty of time).

The ride itself is 18th-22nd August.

Great I keep meaning to sign up.

Yes he is stretching it out having with Bjorn still having to do more climbing.

Reg'd - thanks for the info

Track leaders stopped working for anyone else or just me?

Stopped working ~2 hours ago for me

The race has been cancelled, but well done to everyone who got this far.

Same. I was thinking Hippy was having a long old rest

frrt has updated more recently.

My guess is that the data feed from SPOT itself is the problem and frrt is better at dealing with it than trackleaders.

Huh what happened?

This is Oliver's idea of a joke.

It's okay - we all just put up with it. :)

Not funny at all . People have lost their lives competing.

At the risk of derailing the thread, are you talking about the cancellation joke? Why would that make it unacceptable?

There was talks of cancelling the race last year when Frank Simmons was killed early in the race. The consensus was generally to ride on to honour his memory.

when I read the 'joke' my heart skipped a beat because I immediately thought that another person had been killed

frrt has updated more recently.

My guess is that the data feed from SPOT itself is the problem and frrt is better at dealing with it than trackleaders.

Freeroute gets its data from Trackleaders, it's not an alternative system, just an interface that Ivan has put toghether that makes the data easier to understand, so surprising if it is more up to date.
There definitely seems to be a problem with the data coming through, though.

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when I read the 'joke' my heart skipped a beat because I immediately thought that another person had been killed

likewise

Trackleaders seems to be working again, not all riders have been updated though.

Sorry, I wasn't clear about it. I know frrt scrapes trackleaders for the underlying data, my point was that the trackleaders javascript code that renders that data into something visible isn't as good as the frrt code. frrt sometimes shows more recent updates than trackleaders (even after refreshing) even though they're effectively using the same feeds.

[EDIT] Now that Bjorn has visited CP3 frrt's distance to finish (DTF) is reporting a much lower figure. Unfortunately it's lower for Bjorn (1518km) than it is for Skinny (1564km) which nicely proves it's not very reliable.

There are a lot of tracker issues this year. I noticed Jürgen Knupe's tracker is showing envelopes(?)

I'm sure Oliver didn't even think that his joke could relate to the previous cancellations. I got it but definitely skipped a beat too!

when I read the 'joke' my heart skipped a beat because I immediately thought that another person had been killed

Me too. It's not like it hasn't happened before.

Skinny looping back just miles from the other riders. Pretty epic.

When he got to CP3 last night, I'm fairly certain Bjorn was the only other rider in the Czech Republic.

Thomas Dupin was just inside if I remember correctly. JUST though. Go Skinny. This is amazing.