Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

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http://www.twitter.com/firsthippy

though fuck knows what firs thippy means

Nhatt. Also search on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #TCRNo4 to find a wealth of posts by riders and the organisers which go a long way to bring personality into the event.

David's twitter list is a great way of getting all the riders tweets in one place...

https://twitter.com/buro9/lists/tcrno4

I wonder which route Kristoff is taking. From looking at the map it would seem that south into the flat part of northern Italy and towards Trieste would make sense, but he's gone north.

then again, I know nothing about the roads in that part of the world...

twitter.com/secondhippy

Fixed. James already linked to firsthippy.

Hippy routed himself onto the motorway?!

Awesome. Thanks guys! It's been fun corrupting.... er, expanding the minds of two teenagers as they become proper bike shop nerds. Getting to use things like this to explain the differences in both bikes and cyclists has been totally great.

Hippy routed himself onto the motorway?!

Trying to sneak through the tunnel, had to re-route when he saw the "no wide loads" sign.

Ahhh, that link's been dead since a rather unfortunate Highlander incident last year...

Too bad, would have been handy drafting a truck for a few hundred KM!

nevermind - way behind!

twitter.com/thirdhippy

Fixed.

Hippy routed himself onto the motorway?!

A friend of mine once rode to Bologna to visit his then-girlfriend, who was Italian. He slept in ditches, rode over mountain passes, and then did most of the way through Italy on motorways, which he claimed was fine and quite easy. Well, that's what he told me, anyway.

hippy also just appears to have found out that some people in Switzerland speak Italian. :)

Wait til he encounters his first Ladin speakers.

Ahhh, that link's been dead since a rather unfortunate Highlander incident last year...

There can be only one?*

Jesper Sorensen has arrived back at the start.

Well, that's what he told me, anyway.

Sounds like Bologna to me.

#inb4schick

Did he forget something?

Sadly, to the best of my knowledge there are no isolated linguistic communities left in Switzerland and they will all have mastered at least one Swiss lingua franca.

That said, I wonder if he'll go anywhere near Alto Adige to discover that lots of them speak German there. :)

Jesper Sorensen has arrived back at the start.

Has this been resolved yet?

@skinny is just about to overtake fellow forumite Darren Franks ( @TheAdventureCapitalist ) on his meteoric ride back up the leaderboard.

though fuck knows what firs thippy means

'Firs' is something about trees and 'Thippy' a surprisingly common first name, judging by a cursory Internet search.