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Quick wheel change on something like the Open UP from 700 road to something 650b gravel-ish might work...

These two did it on 43mm tyres... http://www.bikepacking.com/plog/trans-america-off-road-trail-odyssey/

Another bike? umadbro?

Nah, I think a fast TransAm is enough of a goal for me.

Oregon - Virginia https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/transamerica-trail/
Their route is means to be 4228 miles, but dropping those placenames into googlemaps in cycling mode, I get

4104 miles
105k ft climbing,
avg 25.6ft/mile

Gabes's Strava stats for TD2015
2,721.8mi
169,660ft
avg 62.33ft/mile

From those routes
TAT
5272.8 miles 347403ft
avg 65.89 ft/mile
TABR2017v1
4182.1 miles
165320 ft
avg 39.53 ft/mile

So you can get TD-type hilliness if you go looking for it. Pretty flat until Colorado though.

There are two TransAm Trails - the one you linked is nice bike friendly paved touring. The one I linked/covered in the link to hippy/as far as I can tell, the race is on is this one: http://www.transamtrail.com/the-trans-am-trail/ originally for offroad motorbikes.

nice bike friendly paved touring

DAFUQ- I'll post up a few pictures of the fucked up roads when I calm down

Unfriendly

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Wouldn't wish on worst enemy never mind friendz

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Bunnyhop. Sorted.

That looks lovely.

flashbacks of Bosnia / Macedonia MTB trails

Mostly nice? Comparatively nice?

Looking at off-road route...

Sources: http://www.bikepacking.com/plog/trans-america-trail-end-of-an-odyssey/ and http://www.bikepacking.com/plog/trans-america-trail-tat-1500-mile-update/

Yeah, no issue really- although felt for the few law abiding competitors who took the 20 mile diversion. Hammo had her bike carried across by some construction workers.

You win, I has no poo on stick pics

(none I'm sharing anyway)

Could you just walk across it or was the bridge 'down'.

Those motorbike guys are talking about taking 50 days to ride it. It's either carnage or they're just slack :)

On-road you're actually riding though. Those lazy off-roaders spend most of their time walking... ;)

Yes actually easy walk across- the signs said otherwise, but at this point -before Crazy Larrys in Damascus VA so very near the end, I wasn't detouring for anything

I thought the workers might've been stopping people crossing there.

Did I ask you if you used the Adventure Cycling maps? I'm tempted to try and plan this a bit better than TCR but other people have said the maps are only slightly helpful because a lot is out of date and time/day dependent.

Apparently they initially tried then gave up!
Yes to maps, then ceremonially bin them as you go along, they are relatively compact.

I'm not binning £120 worth of maps! Maybe I could make colour copies.

Billy Rice. What a tool. Let someone else ride a route, then start a race on it, then change the route so it goes through Newton, KA and Brush Mtn, CO, because he has friends there.

The TAT route looks amazing, and has some incredibly high passes (nearly 14k feet AFAIK). Never underestimate how hilly the east can be. Sawtooth profile, much like Devon/Cornwall.

^ Yes Virginia broke my heart. I hadn't appreciated how long the ridges are either, over here you climb, then the reward of a descent. Blue Mountains and Rockies its never ending undulating at the top.

Been meaning to contact you @gabes cant make my mind up re TD bike. Current fashion for bespoke divide bikes (i.e., Salsa Cutthroat, Moots Baxter) is for more of a gravel bike than a MTB, which kind of makes sense given majority of route (?)

You could always race the original one. It's just a route with a time.

Fixed 'crosser. You know you want to.