The Transcontinental Race 2013

[HaloJ]

......Along with his round-the-world bike, he has all sorts of things including lots of Tokyo post office bikes, a Lotus carbon TT bike and a few penny farthings. Must dig out the pictures some time....

Oh superb! One of the limited run 108's?

<-- Lotus obsessed since childhood.

EDIT : Go Rimas!

 

[Auntie Helen]

This is fascinating stuff - go Rimas! Anyone who cooks his bike on the kitchen hob deserves to win!

 

[rich p]

This is fascinating stuff - go Rimas! Anyone who cooks his bike on the kitchen hob deserves to win!

Rohloff hob?

 

[Aperitif]

This is fascinating stuff - go Rimas! Anyone who cooks his bike on the kitchen hob deserves to win!

"giving it full gas..."

You hob knobber, Rich!
RD is riding hard of the leading six as I write...EP and JJ are our 'ones to watch'. Helicopter coverage would help. Sort it out Mr Hall!

Gas oRim!

 

[Auntie Helen]

Here is the bike cooking thread, it was on YACF

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=64970.0

 

[Hill Wimp]

I kid you not i have come home to see the OH and one of his bikes doing something similar. How amused was i ?

We had a holiday in Sri Lanka and the Maldives that winter

 

[frank9755]

I'd missed Rimas' secret recipe for bike soup - thanks for that!

It looks like EP's flat, southerly route is paying dividends. He's storming through Slovenia while Rimas appears to be fighting his way through far less friendly terrain, currently bogged down in Spittal.

It will be interesting to see where EP goes from here. Rimas said earlier that he was planning to go across Serbia. Will EP opt for the longer but cunningly flatter (and staggeringly beautiful) route down the Croatian, Montenegrin and Albanian coasts, then into Greece...?

 

[rich p]

As you say, Frank, fascinating strategies. I think EP may have got it right on the flatter route but who knows. Good innit!
Hey ho, spittal - get out quick Rimas!

 

[Aperitif]

Will EP opt for the longer but cunningly flatter (and staggeringly beautiful) route down the Croatian, Montenegrin and Albanian coasts, then into Greece...?

Ease up a bit on the descriptives please, Franco - it is mosh here in grimy North London at the best of times. I think Rimas is resting for a bit - as you mentioned he might in your earlier post. Also resting is K. Allegaert From my 'two tabs watch', I notice that his recorded figures are 1790kms with 10:44 rest and then another 252kms with another 7 hours rest. The boy is tiring fast!

<Go Rimas!

 

[HaloJ]

Ease up a bit on the descriptives please, Franco - it is mosh here in grimy North London at the best of times. I think Rimas is resting for a bit - as you mentioned he might in your earlier post. Also resting is K. Allegaert From my 'two tabs watch', I notice that his recorded figures are 1790kms with 10:44 rest and then another 252kms with another 7 hours rest. The boy is tiring fast!

I think Kristof is suffering in the heat of the low lands as he's just tweeted he's going to try and drink a bottle an hour. Also he said the roads in Serbia were awful with holes bigger than he's ever seen before! I wonder if Frank's beautiful coastal route would be better maintained? To me it seems that Edward (EP) is heading inland rather than doing the coastal route.

 

[rich p]

Frank may know better than me but is the Croatian coastal route very busy with fast traffic? That may not bother these boys as much as it does me!

 

[frank9755]

You are both right. I've only ridden the bit south of Dubrovnik, and through Montenegro and Albania to Greece. It's busy but very smooth and mostly pretty flat. Much of it is too busy to ride for pleasure but if you are racing, then airflow from passing lorries is a good thing!

Edit - actually, looking at the map, you wouldn't go as far south as the Albania / Greece border and would need to cut through via somewhere like Lake Ohrid (far prettier than it sounds and with a very fast, flat new road to the south...). Whichever way you go there would be some hills!

 

[Aperitif]

I think Kristof is suffering in the heat of the low lands as he's just tweeted he's going to try and drink a bottle an hour. Also he said the roads in Serbia were awful with holes bigger than he's ever seen before! I wonder if Frank's beautiful coastal route would be better maintained? To me it seems that Edward (EP) is heading inland rather than doing the coastal route.

Yes, I was thinking that too, after a quick peruse of the map. Difficult going with the temperatures in the low 100Fs...or should that be low 100Ffs? Abs' mention of the fluid intake for Allegaert in the "cool" bit of the morning will surely be trumped by the afternoon shift guzzling gallons.
Here's the view South from Ljubljana - can anyone spot EP? He's a single needing a bit of 'LP in 78F and above... (sorry)

 

[HaloJ]

Juliana Buhring after being called a "badass" by the organiser this morning for her cycling the first part of the mountain in the dark with pouring rain and high winds last night saw fit to record the following message as she's climbing Stevlio pass in similarly pour conditions.

Certificate 15 : some viewers may find content offensive.

 

[Aperitif]

Well done JB 'pinky'! It's nice that there is a trail of riders on the way up - zoom out and it looks like a bunch sprint up the slope. Hardly. All my action is taking place on a screen 52cms from left to right.