Transcontinental Race No. 9 - TCR9 - #TCRN09 - 2023

I used a similar tank setup in my first 24hr TT and found it to be a bit shit.
If you're sick of a drink, or in my case sick because of a drink, it's very hard to just empty it out and get a refill.
Went back to bottles for handups. Ultra racing I used bladders so I guess quite similar though not sure why you'd go for a hard plastic bottle over a bladder.

I think I got a couple of hours penalty. Did nothing to the results. They were presumably lenient on me because I reported it the night I'd done it. I wonder why my route handn't avoided it to begin with though - must've been a last minute addition to the banned list

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Not the nicest day to be out for a ride in the mountains, today.

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Has the tracker stopped working or is it just me? I might have to do some work!

Annoying that you can't toggle all riders tracks at once. I really don't understand how every new tracking site is worse than oldskool Trackleaders.

They were presumably lenient on me because I reported it the night I'd done it.

They've changed their approach. I rode 2km on a road I didn't know was not allowed for bikes. Diverted off and self reported as soon as I saw a sign. Probably saved me about two minutes, and I got something like a four hour penalty.
I'm sure they wouldn't have known it was banned for bikes.

Looks pretty borked for me too. Getting rid of it.

Post screenshots, you lot.

not sure why you'd go for a hard plastic bottle over a bladder.

Space.
Bladders don't work so well in smaller frames.

I don't really get it. You're just making more of the fluid sit wider?
Isn't that gonna fuck with your pedaling at some point so you're still limited in a pretty similar way (ie. when I filled mine with Pepsi and it fizzed up really wide and hurt my knee)?

ie. how is this different to a full frame bag with a bladder inside? (other than cheaper)

that saddle pack and spoks hehe.

josh is doing his daily videos : https://www.youtube.com/@joshibbett/videos

For me at least, I am fine with something wide low down and forward but I need it to be narrow at the top / back.

Some info for newcomers to the TCR and dotwatching:

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Exciting as ever!

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Yeah seems odd considering he has a bottle mounted on his fork too.

Strasser and Robin close together, but Strasser has ridden 10% more because of his unconventional route to CP1. He is sleeping less, slightly quicker. Wonder if Robin can stick at that level, will be fun if he can.

Only 14 mins between them at the first CP.

197 will arrive at CP2 first. You read it here first.

Another shorter rest has given CS more gap on RG.

Robin and Marin using an offroad shortcut.

@Thrasher could you edit your first post to include the tracker link please?

https://www2.followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno9/

"shortcut"

Looks safe!

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5817417,10.2514233,3a,75y,344.28h,23.26t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipM0QXOVLLNc1xrnbH0xFkLfrkGLeeDBCk_hYHzs!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM0QXOVLLNc1xrnbH0xFkLfrkGLeeDBCk_hYHzs%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10.016077-ya170.43408-ro-0-fo100!7i6080!8i3040?entry=ttu

Doesn't look too bad. Wide enough at least the other people have ridden it.