sean_iow wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 9:57 am I think he''ll get under the record, which will also be the new singlespeed record

I hope so!

Looks like he's going for it, didn't even stop in FA! 9hrs is a tall ask though.

Liam appears to take less for a HT550 than i take for an over nighter - I wonderwhat his kit list s other than pretty minimal
Record looks like it might happen but he will smash the SS record

He's got the worst bit of the whole route next*, the Great Glen Way

*For a singlespeed as it's flat and you just cant pedal fats enough if you're in a hurry. When I rode it I was trying to catch a Frenchman and being chased by a Dutchman, sounds like a Pyton sketch

At sub 4 day pace it is 8 hrs from Ft William back to Tyndrum but that's on the old road route into Bridge of Orchy. I would say the more recent off road, up and over from end of Rannoch Moor adds 30 mins.

Lazarus wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 10:24 am Liam appears to take less for a HT550 than i take for an over nighter - I wonderwhat his kit list s other than pretty minimal

Taken from the dotwatcher.cc site:

Liam Glen
Age: 30

Location: Bristol, England

Your bike: Stooge Scrambler. Running it singlespeed with a 34x20 gear. 29x2.6” WTB Ranger up front and a 29x2.25” Onza Svelt out back.

Your key items of kit: I’ll be carrying everything in an Apidura seat pack, DIY frame bag and an Apidura handlebar bag (depending on how much clothing I decide to take). In addition I’ll have a 15l running rucksack/vest for food, easily accessible clothes and up to 2l of water. For shelter, I’ll be using an Alpkit bicycle 3.5 tarp + Titanium Goat Kestrel bivy, held up by Bearbones carbon poles. Sleeping bag is an Alpkit job that’s been on every trip I’ve done for the past 6 years. I’ll wait until I get to Tyndrum before making my final clothing selection, but safe to say it’ll be more than in 2019!

Go Liam!

cheers-his custom frame bag is magically see through
SS in the highlands with no air bed - oh to be young again

Lazarus wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 10:53 am cheers-his custom frame bag is magically see through
SS in the highlands with no air bed - oh to be young again

Indeed

It looks like the river crossing in Fisherfield is reasonable - Steve Waters and Lars Henning have just done it, one ping well before the river and one after it so doesn't look like it caused any problems.

Just been out for a ride - hope it's not as windy up north as it is here, if I had hair it would be all over the shop

Trepwatch: overnight at OBH following a dicky tummy (food, knackered after a day of headwind and rain? I dunno). Hopefully she and her kit are a good deal drier today. Now past CP3, and probably on the climb over Maovally to the top of Loch Shin.

Lazarus wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 10:53 am SS in the highlands with no air bed - oh to be young again

Maybe no air bed is his cunning plan, warmer to keep going

Looks like Andrew Hutcheson is making his move to take 2nd place. I think he's been riding with James for a while now but the past couple of pings look like he's pushed on and drawn out a bit of a lead.

Landslide wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 11:48 am Trepwatch: overnight at OBH following a dicky tummy (food, knackered after a day of headwind and rain? I dunno). Hopefully she and her kit are a good deal drier today. Now past CP3, and probably on the climb over Maovally to the top of Loch Shin.

Go Trep

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 9:13 am Some pics (from twitter and elsewhere) of Liam and Treps bikes pictured yesterday..

That Picture of Liam’s bike is from his BB200 in October last year. I guess you don’t need much when you’re only out on the bike for just over 14 hours

Looks like Liam's is at the Costa in Fort William, so one last refuel before the sprint to the finish?

40 miles to go!

Liam has just got 35 miles to go (if the course is around 550 miles long)... that's 5 hours and 20 to beat he record.

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 1:57 pm Liam has just got 35 miles to go (if the course is around 550 miles long)... that's 5 hours and 20 to beat he record.

40 miles and just short of 5000 feet left to climb.

He'll be done rather soon then!

The climb out of Kinlochleven is particularity tough.

For some reason when I rode it I was thinking the climb out of Fort William was up to the Devils Staircase imagine my delight when I got to the actual climb 10 miles later and had 1650 feet of up

sean_iow wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 2:21 pm The climb out of Kinlochleven is particularity tough.

For some reason when I rode it I was thinking the climb out of Fort William was up to the Devils Staircase imagine my delight when I got to the actual climb 10 miles later and had 1650 feet of up

I think the hardest bit is that last slog from Kingshouse. You've done all the big climbs, but the route keeps on giving plus that pita hill near Bridge of Orchy..

Richpips wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 2:27 pm

sean_iow wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 2:21 pm The climb out of Kinlochleven is particularity tough.

For some reason when I rode it I was thinking the climb out of Fort William was up to the Devils Staircase imagine my delight when I got to the actual climb 10 miles later and had 1650 feet of up

I think the hardest bit is that last slog from Kingshouse. You've done all the big climbs, but the route keeps on giving plus that pita hill near Bridge of Orchy..

And when you have sprinted from the bottom of the Devil's Staircase thinking the end is only 1 hour away it can be a surprise when there's actually 4 hours to go....... He really seems to be motoring - I am sure the dot is moving faster now than before.

That Picture of Liam’s bike is from his BB200 in October last year. I guess you don’t need much when you’re only out on the bike for just over 14 hours

I'll stop trying to work out where on the HT it is then......

Agree on the last bit from Kingshouse - it's a test of humour.
May be easier in first place with a 5 hour lead.

One for Greg - any way Trackleaders can be updated to show Trep's been through the various check points? At the moment it's still expecting her to go to CP1.