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As someone on FB said, it looks like they took Jesse's words out of context:
"It's almost like The Hunger Games on wheels," organiser Jesse Carlsson says. "Riding is only one part of the puzzle.
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Looking at Google maps down there, there's a shoulder but I've no idea how long that continues for etc.
It continues all the way.
Pretty much all the main roads that IndyPac went on have a hard shoulder like that. Normally the surface is fine
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Whomever coined the term "Hunger Games on wheels" needs a kick in the arse. It somehow makes out that people are expected to die during the event rather than realising deaths in ultra-events are just a microcosm of those cyclists experience all the time
@Oliver Schick - They said there was a metre between the road and the barrier where Mike was riding. So presumably they are saying that the driver was on the shoulder. Looking at Google maps down there, there's a shoulder but I've no idea how long that continues for etc.