Transcontinental Race No. 8 - TCR8 - #TCRN08 - 2022

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  • That should never require a reroute unless maybe you're going to try and find an enema kit in a big town.

  • Makes note for next kit grid pic

  • I didn't even know they were a thing until hearing the story of the legened that is Janie Hayes stopping for one in TransAm.

    https://twitter.com/plainiejanie/status/1348675974200762368

  • brompton man made CP1 90 mins before cut off. Considering half his bike sheared apart, that's pretty impressive. Will be even more impressed if he makes CP2

  • yeah every town in europe has a lidl and every lidl has some big bins round the back. speaking from experience.

  • Will Vousden, Cap 214, was also hit by a motorbike yesterday.

    Didn't quite make my distance goal today, largely due to being driven into by a motorbike in Regensburg around lunchtime. I'm mostly ok (barring some shoulder pain), bit the bike ended up with a litany of mechanical issues that must've cost me about an hour in total to put right:

    • Loose headset
    • Handlebar & aero bars pointing all over the place
    • Intermittent USB charging output on dynamo light
    • Front & rear derailleur indexing all messed up
    • Snapped rear tubeless valve core, breaking my tyre pressure sensor and requiring "downgrade" to inner tube. Hilariously, this is exactly what happened on day 3 of Around Norway last year.

    Thankfully everything seems ok now.

  • Is the opinion that Strasser will inevitably lead the race at some point? There was talk a few pages ago that him and UB would be 1st, 2nd. Or maybe I read that wrong. Strasser is the RAAM guy, right? Would he not struggle to some extent transitioning to self supported? It looks currently like there is a bunch of riders in with a good shout, like Pawel and Ian To included.

  • He's strong but this is still new territory. Time will tell if the front runners have gone out too hard and/or he is riding well within himself and can claw back time.

  • Just thinking that routing, finding places to eat and sleep, fixing his own mechanicals etc. would be a new world for him in a race like this and it might be an equaliser for others.

  • He's a pro, so he has more time than some people when it comes to route planning. So, really, I'd expect him to have a better route than many given most of us have full time jobs doing other shit. As for mechanicals well, just because he races with a team car doesn't mean the training he does is without incident. Obvs he won't have my mad skills but I presume he could fix most normal stuff. Guess we'll find out.

  • On day 1 he said his routing was shit and he adapted and started following the front runners routes. I guess he'll keep doing that.

  • I really don't see how you can do this on the fly.

  • be safe @frank9755

    hope it gets better <3

  • I checked his instagram story again, he changed his route to be on bigger roads "like the others do", he didn't follow their route. My mistake. Point is that he doesn't feel confident about his route since the start so I don't think he'll gain much from having a better one in the coming days. But I could be totally wrong ofcourse.

  • I still dont understand. He messaged me to say he'd read all my blogs, and others. Surely he'd looked at old routes and knew people would clearly take fast roads. It makes no sense to me.

  • Thanks @MisterTomTom, thought the fires would be to far away to have an impact.

    So, including the guy that got hit by a motorcycle rider, that's 3 collisions?
    All in Germany I would assume?
    Fuck drivers, our lenient law enforcement, and laughable fines. The whole attitude towards safety of vulnerable road users is so infuriating.

  • That's the sign of a rookie - checking the tracker and thinking your route is shit and then trying to follow others. Maybe some bits are shit and that can be useful but to lack confidence in the whole route and just follow others - you don't know what mistakes they've made.

  • 2 were in Czech, no?

  • Was his route vastly different? It's hard to see. It's also quite easy to find yourself on a shitter road and then use the tracker to see if there's better options. Doing this for a few km doesn't mean eyeballing the tracker to second guess your route the whole time. Maybe he was also shocked at the speed at the front and wanted an excuse :)

  • Was just my assumption, because in my (very limited) experience, Czech drivers were way better than what I encounter in our land of no speed limits.

  • #23 appears to be the last rider into CP1 before it closed. She's riding a Rourke.

  • Strasser seems to be having fun at least, but has stopped at a bike shop quickly, had trouble finding food one night and morning and his phone got wet so using a spare.

    https://www.facebook.com/christophstrasser.at

    It's mostly pretty simple to find food and hotels a s there's plenty along the roads in Europe, so that shouldn't be a problem mostly.

  • Also showing that sadly I am not following the race as closely as on earlier editions.

  • Fiona and Broady very close now on their way south. Her battery showing empty though? Did she get a new tracker or the stolen one back?

  • Rider complaining about an off-road section of the parcours

    "They put in a really funky dirt quasi-single track detour just to mess with our heads a little while back. Not a single track detour but part of the CP1 parcour. Just a short section but it was irritating"

    Anyone else mention that? I thought it was all road.

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