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  • I don't understand your comment.

    It's not just road users, you're trying to get from A to B the fastest way, so you pick boring and shit roads. Not the beautiful scenic ones.

  • Sorry. I was wondering if it’s just on road racing more generally, and citing TABR has having boring/ dangerous bits and that it’s fixed route.
    Has the off-road or predominantly off road races made that all less appealing?

  • TABR is funny in that the route was planned in the seventies and is largely unchanged even though the amount of traffic has significantly increased. There are tricky flashpoints and shitty stretches, but it is more a cultural reason why it feels dangerous occasionally. The cars/trucks are so big and people just aren't used to seeing a bicycle out there or dealing with one when they do. The most/worst accidents have come recently on the large barren stretches of Kansas where the locals say you can "see a cat licking his ass from 50 miles." I think the collisions were mostly in the night time several days into the race. Having toured the route, the locals look at you like you are legitimately crazy for being on a bicycle out there, but I reckon there are a multitude of reasons for that. Can't remember too much of it being close to an A road in the UK in terms of danger. You often get a nice wide shoulder. One traffic heavy section is the coast road from Astoria, but I think the riders do that early morning and fresh. @Hippy will hopefully chime in. I don't think he thought it was too unsafe overall, may be remembering incorrectly?

  • Yez 100%

    Why deal with that shit? I've used several of my 9 lives.

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