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

Chapeau Skinny, you mad bastard!

Great riding from samuli. To go from 41st to 15th place shows great planning, perseverance and guts. Bravo.

Congratulations skinny, must be an amazing feeling to win such a unique race. Enjoy your rest!!

kinell. With all the skinny talk I'd missed that.

How's that even done?

Great work @Samuli

Congratulations @skinny
I was watching your last k's with my gf. Even though she is not into cycling (much), she said 'he's a beast'.

So much respect for @Samuli smashing it on the frankenbike. Steady progress up the field every day.

Lea rides with my club (CC London) and is just an awesome, awesome rider.

I think it would be good if Skinny achievement was more widely recognised. Just looked on BBC Sport Cycling section

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling

and not a word about his amazing achievement . Shame really.

OK so the race continues and Bijorn is hitting the parcours. He should be done in the next 20 minutes or so. Someone go and wake @skinny up.

Have to say that Bijon's ride has been immense. Chapeau!

Just beginning the descent

Bjorn is about 40 isn't he? Incredible ride for someone of any age.

Is there anything planned in terms of getting the forum TCR riders into a pub or something to hear their stories and meet the dots in person?

Anisa is doing amazingly well as it is her first ultra event. She has spent the whole night (her fourth in a row) kipping in a bus stop having got absolutely soaked, she set off again early still raining, still wet and has covered about 100 kms since. She might make CP3 later today.

Samuli mentioned in another post, that the first 2k were his warmup.

Nice ride by Bjorn, wouldn't of been the same race at the pointy end without him

Kristoff is a similar age and out there being the benchmark, skinnys got 15 years until his prime by the looks of things

^scary

Bjorn in town 13 mins ago so must have finished by now. Awesome ride and made the race really engaging.

Is skinny 25 or younger?

Bijorn must have finished. 1.5km to go 17 minutes ago.

What's @hippy 's total mileage going to be this year? Solo winter tour across Russia/Asia? Be rude not to.

ffs.

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Behave yourself. How?!

26 apparently
http://jamesmarkhayden.uk/about/

Skinny could team sky this race for many years if he wished