TCR 10, Transcontinental Race

bike

I have no doubts that carriers will take bikes. Passports may be problematic. I could just Google it and see.

Yes, I have googled it and dpd won't take pasports:
https://www.dpdlocal-online.co.uk/prohibited-items

You might find someone else who will but carriers generally have similar rules.

Actually maybe you can, DHL will do it:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiVp5CnqcKHAxUcQEEAHUyfIE0Q9cILegQIDxAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overlandexpress.co.uk%2Fdocument-courier%23%3A~%3Atext%3DYou%2520can%2520use%2520our%2520DHL%2Capplications%252C%2520marriage%2520and%2520birth%2520certificates.&usg=AOvVaw3X77yD5iCNbJ_qP-OtvCxe&opi=89978449

What they don't know won't hurt them and that list is bullshit anyway.

They prohibit the sending of "Accessories"?

ORLY?

FYI: From that banned list, I've sent
Aerosol, Batteries, Bottles, Chocolate, Confectionery, "Documents" lol, Drugs (Including Prescription), Item Described As "Unknown" lol, I got bored...

It's pretty great that he didn't just quit. Hope to watch him climb the field in the coming days. Might be seeing a future winner.

German carriers don't use self employed people!

Jest? Loads do and some still do, as far as I know. Subcontractors with subcontractors and so on.
I meant a courier service. Like Cosmo Kurier in Berlin. Bike Messengers, Car Messengers, men with van. Definitely self employed, and I bet that for the right price someone they have on call would go to London, pick up anything not illegal at your place, and bring it to me in Berlin.

I also meant asking the people at the gas station where I left my stuff to bring it to me.
Not someone where I am.
Again, providing they speak the same language and you're lucky/charming/convincing, they might have underemployed friends that would do the 600k+ roundtrip. After all the messenger would have your passport, which is a pretty good insurance that he'll get paid, no?

Tim McInnes cap #23 is from FHHV and is likely on here I would have thought?

One of the few years maybe not? We used to have lists of them 🥲 ... Edit ^

https://www.instagram.com/p/C911Qelu6Yc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Can't help think she might regret posting this. Asking people to message David Ayre because you're annoyed by the organisations rules seems fairly petulant

Edit: Don't think that link is working so:
@thetranscontinental is refusing to report my progress on any leaderboards since my pairs partner had to scratch on the first day. SO I’LL REPORT IT HERE: CP1 REACHED AND I’M 3rd PLACE FEMALE, Y’ALL! Apparently volunteers have been told they aren’t even allowed to record my time in the system, but @ayredw found it in his heart to let them stamp my brevet card. Go DM David if you think this erasure is unsportsmanlike, because I sure do. David, you should reflect on how you can #bemoremike (I don’t care about an official finish; I care about my effort being recognised!) LET’S PARTY GUYS! I’M (unofficially) THIRD!

Is this the pair that did the unusual route?

Yep, Sarah Ruggins 303b

It's a big change from being paired to being solo. ?

They've not removed people from tracking when their partner's have scratched, why do so now?

But she's also not 3rd.

She is still on the tracker.

Oh, leaderboards? Well, yes, you've effectively scratched as a pair, you don't get to race on as a SOLO.

It means you've enjoyed the benefits of riding as a pair, ie aero drafting, shared load carrying and morale. I can see why it is frustrating to not be able to convert to the solo category but it's for a good reason. Enter as a pair, finish the race as a pair, that's the challenge you've undertaken to accomplish with your partner.

I think it's certainly within someone's rights to ride the rest of it and join the finishers party but in terms of rankings and leaderboards and coverage of the race, it's game over imo

#readtherules

She'd finished as a pair last year, no? So should know how it works by now.

Makes total sense

Probably, yes. But what people know and don't often makes no sense

You can blame tiredness for some actions but there's clearly a lot of race entrants that don't read the rules. I know they're boring (the rules, not the racers) but it's a pretty basic requirement to finishing and not being DQd or something.

The parcours for the peeps up the front in the dark is gonna be no fun. I just made it up and most of the way down before darkness when I rode it. Killed my road shoes it did. I'd tried to find walking shoes earlier in the event but nothing appeared.

You mean that 'parcour 2' part?

The guys in front have average daily distances of >500km, this keeps blowing my mind

Oh yes. My question mark was for Sarah. Like "what is she saying?"

Actually, I take it back, this year's parcour doesn't go up to Bjelasnica. It's a much longer parcours but I don't know the surfaces on it.

At least part of it similar