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As for "investing" in arm warmers, the ones from Decathlon are adequate. Only £10. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/500-cycling-arm-warmers-id_8315506.html

The TCR crew made an announcement op FB today:

This year, after the death of our Director and friend Mike Hall, the Hall family and the race organisers were committed to ensuring the fifth edition of the race was the success Mike planned for. Despite the tragedy of Frank's death we believe it was a success. The race is only as good as it's racers and team of committed volunteers and everybody involved can be rightly proud of their achievements.

Currently we, the family and the race organisation team, are actively working together to ensure a sustainable future for the Transcontinental Race. Please bear with us, rider registration for TCRNo6 is being inevitably delayed.

– The TCR Team

I did it in 4 loops, each one shorter than the previous. (180, 140, 100, 80). Really helps mentally to start the next one. :)

https://www.strava.com/activities/812226487

I have a great ambition to do this in one ride ..

Did it last year as a group ride. Might try a solo attempt this year, depending on the weather.

Nice NorthCape4000 video: https://www.facebook.com/NorthCape4000/videos/528320157505883/

He's ok. No serious injuries.

17/3/2018 Indian Pacific Wheel Race
https://www.indianpacificwheelrace.com/

25/4/2018 Italy Divide (gravel race)
http://www.italydivide.it/

2/6/2018 Trans Am Bike Race
https://transambikerace.com/

?/6/2018 Tuscany Trail
http://www.tuscanytrail.it/en

7/6/2018 TransAtlantic Way
https://www.transatlanticway.com/

?/6/2018 Tour Divide
http://tourdivide.org/

?/6/2018 Hard Cro Race
http://hardcro.com/

20/6/2018 Northcape - Tarifa
http://www.northcape-tarifa.com

28/7/2018 Northcape 4000
http://www.northcape4000.com/

TBC/7/2018 ? Transcontinental
transcontinental.cc

?/8/2018 French Divide
http://www.frenchdivide.com/en/

?/8/2018 Japanese Odyssey
https://www.japanese-odyssey.com/

19/8/2018 ACrossThe5 (MTB)
http://www.act5.be/

?/9/2018 Torino - Nice (gravel)
http://torino-nice.weebly.com/

17/3/2018 Indian Pacific Wheel Race
https://www.indianpacificwheelrace.com/

25/4/2018 Italy Divide (gravel race)
http://www.italydivide.it/

2/6/2018 Trans Am Bike Race
https://transambikerace.com/

7/6/2018 TransAtlantic Way
https://www.transatlanticway.com/

20/6/2018 Northcape - Tarifa
http://www.northcape-tarifa.com

28/7/2018 Northcape 4000
http://www.northcape4000.com/

TBC/7/2018 ? Transcontinental
transcontinental.cc

19/8/2018 ACrossThe5 (MTB)
http://www.act5.be/

Hippy is correct. Jesse explains it in the video I linked.

Also, what happens to the other riders if the nullarbor guy scratches? (A third of riders scratched before Adelaide last time). They'll let them ride, but hard to do an ultra when your reason for doing it has gone!

Jesse had a Q&A on Facebook today. He explains this at the 29:20 timestamp: https://www.facebook.com/IndianPacificWheelRace/videos/493610554347667/

He looked a bit out of place at the start, amidst all those fancy bikes. :)

8:23:20 since start

Not bad

Apparantly skinny suggested the penalty himself. This is from Juliana on FB:

Actually James Hayden who called us to let us know how dangerous the road was as he was riding it, is himself accepting (and in fact suggested) the small time penalty to reflect the massive detour and extra climbing other riders will have to do to avoid this road.

Hmm, smart.

Where is all his gear? :)

Looking at Google Maps, it seems he's completely changed his route to avoid the tiniest bit of motorway. Would it really have mattered?

I wonder why he didn't ride the little section offroad along the water to end up on the 2420 https://goo.gl/maps/BFZbPaYJQo82

It's a bug in the Trackleader website. Bit technical but when there's no elevation chart the zoom buttons on the map don't work.
works: http://trackleaders.com/transam17
doesn't work: http://trackleaders.com/tour14er17

So it's not you, it's them :)

(And if you want to get really technical, you could fix it with uBlock by adding this as a filter: trackleaders.com###elecontrols )

Bjorn (TCR) and Rudy (NC4k) met in the Alps :)

Shame that we have the first scratch after only 12 hours:
https://frrt.org/tcrno5/r/268a-kevin
https://twitter.com/Blackhound59

hippy on De Muur

First racers really raced up the hill, lot of other racers had to walk but the atmosphere was cheerful.

This is the video of Rupert interviewing Kristof: https://www.facebook.com/ReadyForNextAdventure/videos/1405314126204681/?permPage=1

I'll check out some of the cool kids gear at the start of the TCR next week. :) (Not a racer, just an avid dotwatcher)

I was looking for a rather large top tube bag and I bought the large one from Alpkit as I'm seeing a few ultraracers using it. https://www.alpkit.com/products/fuel-pod-large
But my legs keep rubbing against it as it is 7cm wide. Does anyone know of any top tube bags that are smaller (4cm-ish) but tall enough to create some volume?

Yeah, I was also looking at the RAB survival but a bit bummed out about the price being 50 euro more than the Hunka. Have you found the ebay link?

I'm looking in buying a bivvy bag and the internet seems crazy about the Hunka XL bivvy bag. Problem is they're all sold out with an estimated ETA of 3rd of August.

Anyone has one for sale by any chance?