Transcontinental Race No. 7 - TCR7 - #TCRN07 - 2019

I need to muster up the energy to look at this after RATN. I'm definitely going to keep the return trip open, although Mr 12 Days is pretty consistent so far.

I'll probably just renew Yellow Jersey assuming they still cover it.

It looks like they do. Will call them tomorrow. As far as I can see, they are the only insurer which uses the word 'repatriation', which the race manual specifically requests is part of your insurance. I may be wrong about this and will call other insurers tomorrow to clarify.

Did you insure the bike as well as getting travel insurance?

My bikes are already insured by pedalcover.

What gearing are people planning to run?

VFL

very fucking low

Haha
I’m currently on 50/34-11/28.
What manufacturers and or combos are good for low...

SRAM and Shimano both do big MTB cassettes. 11-36, 11-42 and there's crazy big cassettes around for 1x setups.

Ok with a long road, rear mech?
Rotor seems like a good choice for chainset? Struggling with it a bit at the moment.

I have 11-40 with a 34/50. Shimano. I may get smaller rings as the mountain biking round cp4 sounds steep as

That's what I plan to run for TransPyr and TCR. I have Woolftooth if the new Ultegra Di2 won't fit 11-40. I have semi-compact on now but that's just what I had in the parts box so I'll have to get full Compact rings after RATN.

Currently thinking I’ll go 48/32 and 11-32

Just got a credit refund on my flight, rebooked the next day with the extra 20% credit, now have extra leg room priority etc.

I’m on the 07:19 on 24/7/19 from Luton.

I'm on that one

So, left knee has just swollen up, lump the size of a malteser in the inside of my kneecap came from nowhere.

I did turbo this morning and was fine. Then was kneeling down to wipe up baby sick and it suddenly started hurting. Took trousers down and saw lump.

Weird. Don't know what it is, bursa? Bleeding? Feels like fluid and went down with ice, but came back again when it warmed up.

May be unrelated to cycling but complicating factor is had new cleat fitting on Thursday. Rode 30km in them with no problem, then turbo, but maybe they aren't quite right and have created problem.

Am meant to be doing 200km on Monday. Really need to be getting miles in now so could do without this.

1+1 =2 Frank.

Coincidence isnt a thing.

Clearly likely wrong.

knee explodes two days after new shoes means definitely something to look at, but from my searching it doesn't seem to be a thing that people get from wrong cleat placement. Might just be a freak one from kneeling on exactly the wrong bit. Either way, I'll have a lazy day and not do 200km tomorrow. Maybe do some route planning...

Hope it heals up.

Not missing the route planning!

Thanks.
It's more or less settled down now. I don't think it is cycling related as didn't hurt when I went for a gentle test ride. Might start the 200 tomorrow after all, and abandon if any niggles.
Anything to put off route planning!

Very weird.

How did you go checking YJ out? I got a renewal letter from them for ~£189 and will likely just pull the trigger unless there's a specific reason not to.

I am still comparing all the options and haven't decided as yet. Yellow Jersey do look good as I would like to insure the bike too. I will probably make a decision by the end of this week. £189 sounds a lot. Is that for the rest of the year (not just tcr)?

Yellow Jersey also has a TCR discount of 10 percent.

Mine's a yearly, all countries, multi-trip and given I've got RATN, TransP, TCR, TransIb and a trip back to Oz planned I think it probably works out similar to individual policies. Plus, if TCR won't use the cheaper policies I'm kinda locked in. It's only this and DogTags i think that are suitable.

Ooh how do I get that then?