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Internal gearbox in BB area of frame. Frame is being built at the moment...

A guy I was following on day 1 had a rohloff, he rode straight through the special mud, I tried to follow, broke hanger and mech as I powered through. So yeah, definitely better, but not infallible.

Maybe SS is the way forward :-S ?

I'll be running pinion gearbox next time, probably with a belt drive. I broke my mech and hanger in mud on the first day!

Yeah, and she knew it was probably out of reach because of the heavy snowfall this year, so I guess quitting wasn't so hard. There's always next year!

Can't be bothered? Record out of reach?

shrugs

Lael has scratched. The rest have left the lodge to carry on now.

Yeah, maybe. They are all fast riders, and the ones that got over the pass today, took a long time, so I guess there's still snow.

I still think they should keep moving. Snow is pretty much a given on high passes on TD (except the year I did it there was zero).

Yeah, that makes sense, except some people have already left, but not the fast people!?!

https://theradavist.com/2019/06/2019-tour-divide-race-part-3/

Good point about the documentary, sitting around not riding is boring.

I think the more competitive riders with more ego realised they'd blown their chance at a good finish, so they're drinking beer at brush mountain lodge. Can't blame them, it's the nicest place on the entire route.

It also makes a good story for the documentary.

Me too.

It's taken Josh Kato 5.5 hrs to go 7 miles over the pass out of Brush Mountain!!!

Just a bit of snow

Sofiane "it's all right. I got lost at the top of the col in the middle of the night. Can't find the way in the snow. I had to turn around because the temperature fell under the-5 degrees and that I'm not equipped to face these temperatures"

Yeah, and bear spray

Do it in 2021? We can ride together for 1 minute at the start before you disappear over the horizon.

Someone said over on the TD thread on bikepacking.net that there was 20 inches of fresh snow at Steamboat Springs overnight. Fun.

Looks like Sofi is back at Brush Mountain, they were having snow last night, so maybe the pass over to Clark was impassable! Gonna be interesting to see what happens.

Some northbound tourers have skipped Colorado entirely due to the levels of snow!

+1

Add the fact that Colorado is where I saw the most wildlife, lots of bears, coyote packs and a mountain lion! They will be extra hungry due to a cold spring.

It's snowing at brush mountain lodge (first stop in northern Colorado) and the forecast is heavy snow right through the Colorado range, some passes are still closed. Things are going to slow down a lot I think.

Snow forecast from 9000', and many of the passes are over 10,000', some nearly 12,000'. That's gonna be a lot of trudging through snow.

That's nothing, still looks quite runny. It gets so gloopy the wheels won't turn.

Really depends on funds, most likely 2021

Sofiane has slowed a lot, it must be raining and that section through Carbon County in southern WY would be horrendous peanut butter mud. Mike's record has overtaken him

We'll have to wait and see, but it was fine last time.

Hike a bike is what messes with it, and there's little on TD.

Also, I got the OK from the mrs that I can do TD again!