Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

Good luck Fatso. Ride hard.

Cheers Big Red!

Good luck racers. Completely in awe of anyone starting this.

Catching up with other racers in Astoria.
Super-dot watcher Thomas Camero (to Hippy): “are you a pair?”
Hippy: “No, I’m just fat”

Ratflmao

How does one become a “super dot watcher”? Asking for a friend.

I've been asked to write the manual about dot watching: I wonder if that qualifies me?

"Goochwatch: The trials and tribulations of a #dotwatcher"
by frank9755

In Thomas's case he qualifies by nature of having ridden every year

I can think of no finer author.

In Thomas's case he qualifies by nature of having ridden every year

That certainly is the most extreme approach to dot watching imaginable. Most of us follow dots on a screen, not cyclists in the real world.

24 hours to go... How many beers will @hippy squeeze in before departure?

Two dozen?

'Suicide Squeeze' was one of them. A lovely IPA from the brewery next door. Yeah, staying in a hotel with two breweries and a distillery next door is well clever.

Need to swap hotels though, don't have a room here tonight. Pita! Might leave all my casual clothes in the box and just take cycling kit to next hotel. Need to print labels for box shipping too

Best of luck Hippy. Stay safe!

Waiting for shipping label...

Good luck fellas!

I guess after the giro thread this is next one to bookmark up to the tour . Stories of wtf where has it gone, rabid dogs and twat drivers aplenty.

Box labelled. Nerves before start have hit.

Get a Beer?

After riding briefing and hotel check-in. Fucking calf pain isn't going. Hoping it's not another DVT. Not using anticoag during race.

Hope not: good luck!

Good Luck!

Ah no. Fingers crossed.

Go big and then go home🤟