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

Imagine how I felt this afternoon when, on my way back to the office, I saw both skinny and hippy chatting by the wall

Tandem TCR06 strategy chat:
"You're the stoker."
"No, you're the stoker."
"No, you're the stoker."
"....ok, ok, I'm doing the tweeting though...you can do the maps"

Hahaha

Definitely need a different phone with a touchscreen that works in damp conditions (https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Smartphones-Tablets-Wearables/Xcover-4-Touch-sensitivity-is-seriously-bugged/td-p/216213) and best leave any map reading to skinny.

As it stands I will probably be racing TABR (properly, I hope) and I'm out of the top-20 soif they run again and use the same rules, I don't have an automatic entry into TCR. Also my missus has mentioned racing as a pair...

Go Mal!

Also my missus has mentioned racing as a pair...

For her sanity, don't make her sit at the back. Gooch vision for two weeks isn't fair on anyone.

Pair != tandem

She can piss off up the road while I pour cans of sudocream into my shorts...

Then she reminded me we're getting married at the start of August.

Honeymoon, no?

I found that road in Hungary, 37 onto 39:

Yes, that's the one. I screenshotted that to ping a guy!
I don't think I came across the other two though.

This one? Anyone who turned right onto the E50 to Kosice is on a car-only road and should be moved to a place behind me. :)

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@48.7907477,21.3071495,3a,75y,174.79h,85.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snWwBTxRIt69W0_Rdr_OXNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I chatted to Dave in Westerley kit on the way home too.

When I joined them the only used to be about four people in the club who rode bikes. Now there's loads more members such that I saw someone in Westerley kit on the way home the other day and didn't know who she was.
So I'm trying to work out which Dave: could be the one who works at Malcolm's shop, or the one who used to be in willesden.
I'm going home via the canal at the moment. Takes longer but no traffic lights and no cars, and lots of cute baby swans

Woolsey Cycles Dave

This one?

No the other one, the 37, where you did a 50km detour, that was only about 12km long!

I hate riding canal paths unless I'm going REALLY slowly riding with the missus for weekend LOLs.

Woolsey Cycles Dave

He's getting married in a few days time.

There was another one in Hungary? I don't remember.

The 50k detour was the bridge out in Austria I think.

He did a 27 in a 10 with his daughter on tandem and she wants to race more! How cool!

It was the first Streetview link on your list.

He did a 27 in a 10 with his daughter on tandem and she wants to race more! How cool!

Yes, there's a link to a short video of them somewhere, I'll try and find it.

It's not a bad time on the Amersham road, I've probably not gone much faster myself...

This is the one in Hungary I recall (plus lots of wrong turns on their bike paths)

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/48.1671863,21.293788/Szerencs,+Hungary/Pr%C3%BCgy,+Hungary/Tarcal,+Hungary/@48.136292,21.2011776,12z/data=!4m21!4m20!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x473f5186e914ef85:0x97f29e67a52809db!2m2!1d21.2048872!2d48.1590429!1m5!1m1!1s0x473f54ebc2921c7d:0x400c4290c1e4f60!2m2!1d21.2428751!2d48.0824191!1m5!1m1!1s0x4738acc412b1e179:0x400c4290c1e3650!2m2!1d21.3418021!2d48.1311328!3e0?hl=en

It's 28k, but then I probably didn't subtract the straight line route from my whinge.

Yeah I was talking about you saying:

I don't think I came across the other two though.

It was the Kosice one.

At least three riders took it.

Wow, just looked at trackleaders and there's tonnes of people on that banned road in Hungary.

This is the one in Hungary I recall

Yes, that's it.

This one? Anyone who turned right onto the E50 to Kosice is on a car-only road and should be moved to a place behind me. :)

I see where this one is now. My guys didn't turn right there, but they went onto the same road further on where the E50 becomes the E58 and is the eastern ring road round Kosice. It is car only so they were pinged for that. I remember looking up what you did and saw that you had gone round the northern / western ring road, which is a bit longer but legal.

As I said, I expect everyone who took an illegal road to be behind me in the rankings now...

Grassing up my way into top-20...

No was all good, thanks. Bought me extra space in bag and easy access to tools. In two minds about sending frame back to rourke to have mounts put in the correct place, as they should have been.

Still in Greece, coming back tonight but moving house this weekend. will drop you a message soon to get it all back to you (+ beer)

Cheer

Groovy! Still in Greece, lucky bugger, I didn't want to leave.