Transcontinental Race No. 5 - TCR5 - #TCRN05 - 2017

The fixed gear rider is an absolute madman, downhill chainless: IG Video
Looks fun!

lol

Indeed, Stoker never went to Romania but apparently saw an engraving of Bran castle and used it as inspiration for the castle, and pinched the name for the character.

The history of Vlad and surrounding areas are well worth a bit of wikipedia-ing while waiting for some dots to update.

@Señor_Bear : I'm not sure, I thought they only get you if you invite them into your house/humble abode/bivvy bag. Bears on the other hand...

Where is all his gear? :)

Looks like he went up and down the parcours to CP2 the same way, so probably stached his luggage at the bottom of the climb.

Hmm, smart.

One gear and an idea.

Jesus the speed they've gone from CP3 towards 4.

Ian To is going to ride himself out of top 5 very soon if he isn't careful

His own fault. His route has been questionable no?

Interesting routing choice coming up for skinny. There looks to be a long flattish route and a more direct but probably lumpier route. No doubt he will boss either!

@skinny's day-5 audio clip just now is really something
https://soundcloud.com/user-924269449/transcontinental-race-2017-day-5

I love the utter focus on buffet and pizza.

Sounds like me putting the bins out.

"Is it buffet or order off the menu?"
Asking the real questions.

And then all he got were some snickers bars, I think? Miserable.
Edit.. maybe that was the previous day

Just another >400k day from skinny. As you do...

LFGSS watch updates:
Current placings in bold, previous day's placings in brackets.

skinny, cap 75: (3) (2) (2) 1
Stephane Ouaja, cap 12: (12) (10) 13
Samuli, cap 84: (41) (35) (31) 19
hippy, cap 142: (17) (14) (22) 23
Michael Wacker, cap 72: (23) (30) 30
Swissy, cap 167: (63) (42) (42) 53
boomboom, cap 209: (61) (82) (81) 75
Emilia, cap 7: (80) (94) (142) 197
abbilondon, cap 201: (235) (219) (212) 204
Wiesia, cap 53: (252) (248) (235) 239
David Coulon, cap 130: (239) (241) 246
Modan / Aedewan Adnan, cap 252b, 252a: (257, 256) (258,261) (247,262) 242,262
gillies, cap 190: (103) (168) (159) SCR
47 scratched overall in the race.

I thought that was illegal.

I don't see a problem with it, he went back and picked it up again.

Not sure at all, but I think there is a set route to get there, but after that you can do what you want.

Few hours away from dot watching. Get back and it's all gone wild! @skinny is on fire!!

Just looked at the wiggly red section before cp4 man that looks difficult.

Anyone got some links to peoples bike setups? Has skinny done one for this year?

Back about 20 pages when they arrived in 🇧🇪