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280 miles left to go for sweary Dave, same as Brixam to Swindon and back. Go Dave :-bd
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How young is spiffy Mr. Barter? If I may ask.

Not that I need a number to look up to, but I always love to see what others, who are some 20 or 30 years older than I am, can achieve.

Don't we all hope to be able to just keep on riding (long days) as we get older and older?
Inspiring :-bd

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Gian, if you click on either his dot or his name in the list you'll get to his details.

52 as it happens.
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Alpinum wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:55 pm How young is spiffy Mr. Barter? If I may ask.

Not that I need a number to look up to, but I always love to see what others, who are some 20 or 30 years older than I am, can achieve.

Don't we all hope to be able to just keep on riding (long days) as we get older and older?
Inspiring :-bd

Fingers crossed with deep respect.
+1... He's really an inspiration
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whitestone wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 9:00 pm Gian, if you click on either his dot or his name in the list you'll get to his details.

52 as it happens.
Cheers Bob. Had forgotten about that.

So... I'm taking back some of what I said. He's not quite old enough.

Was Alexandera the first (GD) 2019 to finish ssp?
No matter if she actually was or wasn't :-bd
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Ryan Simon was the first singlespeeder, came in one place ahead of Alexandera.

I think I've read that Alexandera is the first back to back female winner. And although they don't differentiate between grand depart and ITT for record times I also think that her ride this year is the fastest female grand depart ride :-bd
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Ooh, I bet Dave can almost smell the finish now. Superb run and in full accordance with the 'spirit of the Tour Divide' ... don't quote me, I might copyright that for later :wink:
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It looks like Dave pushed on for a couple of hours more than the other 2 last night, I wonder if that was to get close enough to the finish to be able to make it there in one last push?

The other brit I know (Tim Roberts) is now within 500 miles of the finish :smile:
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The following was written about Dave in 2003:
Dave Barter (and his ever supportive family) for having the vision, strength of character and never say die attitude that made this such a success,
Guess it still applies!!
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Dave is on the toughest part of the route imo. He may learn a new level of swearing on the 14 miles of the Gila. When he hits tarmac again it is a decent enough run into Silver City and then the final run to the border.
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Blackhound wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 5:46 pm Dave is on the toughest part of the route imo. He may learn a new level of swearing on the 14 miles of the Gila. When he hits tarmac again it is a decent enough run into Silver City and then the final run to the border.
His tracker hadn't updated for a while but it's now just past Silver City. 126.5 miles to go! Go Dave!
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Superb. Well done and crack on dave.

Podcast with Alexandera on bikes or death.
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Looks like Dave's going for a finish tonight, 120 miles to go. Pic on twitter shows him with his race face on, either that or constipation :grin: Go Dave!
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Nearly there Dave! Inspirational ride :-bd :-bd
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17 miles to go.....

Amazing effort sir!
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Superb run and in full accordance with the 'spirit of the Tour Divide' ... don't quote me, I might copyright that for later :wink:
Excellent! When can we expect the film to be released :lol:

In amongst all the men girnin shots the smiling face of Alexandra has been most welcome. She looks like she’s enjoyed every damn minute of it. For me, she has encapsulated what the TD experience should be. Count me a fanboi.

I can’t help but think that Lael seems to enjoyed things much more after she scratched. She certainly looked happier. I guess there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
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Looks like we have a bouncing Barter, it's not clear whether he got in before midnight, it was bloody close but either way it was a great effort. 120 miles in 9 hours at the end of 3 weeks is a top job. Well done that man
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pistonbroke wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:08 am Looks like we have a bouncing Barter, it's not clear whether he got in before midnight, it was bloody close but either way it was a top effort. 120 miles in 9 hours at the end of 3 weeks is a top job. Well done that man
Really happy to see his bouncing dot just now.
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Well done Dave. Absolutely fantastic ride. :-bd
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Well done Dave :-bd
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whitestone wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:39 am Well done Dave :-bd
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Great effort Dave. Well done !!
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Fantastic news to wake up to.

DB, superstar!
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Brilliant well done Dave ,
making my first action of the day to look at my phone needs to be something special.
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Re: Tour Divide 2019

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pistonbroke wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:08 am it's not clear whether he got in before midnight
His last point is 11:52pm so I think he was there just in time :smile: The red line of the route on trackleaders goes past the point where the famous sign is on the fence. I make it that he finished in just under 20 days 16 hours so inside the 21 day target :-bd

Chapeau Dave :grin: great ride, I'm looking forward to the book :smile:
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