Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

Peter Andersen was keeping close to Marcel Graber for a while, but the latter's lead now seems to be opening up, about 40 miles today, which I think is up by about 20 compared to earlier today.

hippy's 20th. Simone Bailey up to 13th.

Hippy in Yorktown

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I guess no one's going to bring a razor* so most male riders are going to be rocking a fair bit of beard by the end

Kristof is always clean-shaven. Obviously he has less time than the rest of us to grow a beard but did admit he takes a razor as a luxury.

He also mentioned 'reading his book' on one of the indypac vids, but that might have been just taking the piss

He’s so dry, it’s hard to tell.

I failed to find a beater bike to keep moving with, so there’s a replacement bike making its way to Jackson. It won’t arrive until some time Tuesday so in the meantime I’m lining my ducks up and focusing on R&R. I’ll keep riding but it doesn’t look like I’ll make Yorktown before I run out of time. I’ll try though.

Hard luck, man. Rest up. There are worse places to be stranded for a few days.

True that. Chamonix is my spiritual home and this place feels like the US version. Always planned to visit Jackson, just not on this trip!

Bad luck, Darren
It could be worse - another twisting descent and you might have got a nasty headache!
Enjoy the break and the rest of the holiday

Hippy and ryan flinn shacking up together.

Shit luck for Darren indeed, but it'll still be a huge adventure.

Matthjis has had some bad luck in his races lately too. He's just scratched.

Hippy might be moving up the field now, if he's feeling good. There's a bunch of them in the same town sleeping and he has had a constant pace yesterday. 16th or 15th now, as Matthjis isn't there anymore.

hippy's in Walden, Colorado with a group of seven other riders, in joint 10th (but listed 15th because he's in what seems like the first motel as you get into town). Simone Bailey is shown as slightly further back, just outside town, but I'm inferring that she probably would have stopped there, too.

Edit: Samuli beat me to it.

The frontrunners are resting for a change, but Marcel Graber has opened up a lead of over 100 miles on Peter Andersen. There's obviously a big gap, nearly 200 miles, between Stephen Haines in eighth, as he's just descending from the mountains, and Tim Tait in 9th, who's still climbing.

I'm not really sure who the last active rider is, as while some have scratched, there are a lot of greyed-out dots of people who haven't got very far yet, and while some of those with only a couple of hundred miles on the clock may well be out of the race, there may just as well still be someone among them who's riding. Does anyone know?

Matthjis has had some bad luck in his races lately too. He's just scratched.

What was the reason?

By the looks of it Donald Harter and Nishanth Iyengar are the last two on the road, they've been moving along the route as recently as 4h ago. Although...

George Weed might still be going, had a really long push over two days to get to Baker City so he may have taken a day and a bit off.

Further back than that there's been no movement from the three behind him for 4+ days.

Last riders with fairly recent activity I can see are Donald Harter and Nishanth Iyengar who might be a pair? Then Michael Hatfield perhaps.

Not sure exactly, but he posted something about his body totally cramping up without painkillers, and now that his body can't take it, in instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj36CZihnh3/

hippy should crest the last major peak in the Rockies today and then roll down hill onto the Prairies. Providing all his body parts are being compliant, he should come into his own and move up the rankings.

Really feel for Darren. All that preparation, planing and training and he is buggered by an almost unforseeable failure. His bike is absolutely beautiful. I was lucky enough to see it close up recently and I have to say that it looked like the perfect endurance bike.

Just goes to show what a lottery this type of race is.

Just goes to show what a lottery this type of race is.

The process is the race, not the final rank - no lottery in process :)

"Today was a good day"

Cube

Most Ti frame builders don't route brake cables through the frame. Lugs don't look pretty and cost more but...

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sort of surprised Laverack make their frames like this tbh. Seems a bit of an oversight.

Interesting that today's the day Kristoff shows of his disc Ti bike after keeping it as simple as possible for years.