Atlas Mountain Race.

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Re: Atlas Mountain Race.

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Here's a taste of what folk are riding...
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Re: Atlas Mountain Race.

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Here's a taste of what folk are riding...
Right old mix of bikes and kit there. I hope those with tents have got some decent pegs with them.
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Not sure if I was going all that way to ride I would trust ultra cheap bits as Michael Collins is. Still he got to luna orbit and back ok.

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As cheap as possible, Kinesis AT alloy frame, carbon fork, cable discs. As budget allows, the highlight is the SP dynamo hub rigged to an eBay special USB converter, then an Exposure dynamo, a £50 rear wheel, free tyres (someone didn’t want them!)
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Looking forward to following the race.

Johnnystorm, care to share which person you are so we / can follow?
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Johnnystorm = Nigel Leech

Chicken Legs = Andy Lawrence
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FLV wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:35 pm Johnnystorm, care to share which person you are so we / can follow?
https://amr2020.maprogress.com/?bib=105&showpath=yes

But keep it to yourself as he likes to keep it a secret :wink:
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Holy crap! I'm off work ill and have been making a spreadsheet of a "money no object" bike. That's after watching YouTube for most of the day - The Length Of Time. Inside The Tour Divide
, Ride The Sweary Dave-ide (Tour Divide 2019), I Just Want To Ride - Lael Wilcox and the 2019 Tour Divide and GBDuro 2019 – EF Gone Racing.

There's someone doing this race on the same NS Bike RAG+ that I've got. 700c wheels too! That's a bit of a reality check, I really should get over myself a bit more... 😲
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Watch out for Bas Rotgans. He rode Cabin Fever on that setup last year and was very quick. He seems to be up front on the dots.
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How do the dots work, are all the trackers reporting with the same frequency? Sofiane appears to be all over the place for example, half the time there's no label on the map or anything, it's a bit confusing.
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K1100T wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:41 pm How do the dots work, are all the trackers reporting with the same frequency? Sofiane appears to be all over the place for example, half the time there's no label on the map or anything, it's a bit confusing.
The trackers report their position every ten minutes or so (depends on unit and package) but that is based from when each rider turned on their tracker and started the process. So if rider A started their tracker at 0800 then you'd get pings at 0800, 0810, etc. If rider B started theirs at 0754 then you'd get pings at 0754, 0804, etc. Then there's the times that the tracker fails to transmit its location so the rider appears not to have moved for twenty or thirty minutes then suddenly jumps forward by 50km when the tracker makes contact.
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Here's a taste of what folk are riding...
Would want bigger tyres than many of those bikes have :shock:
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Some cracking photos coming from this race, looks a great country to visit
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Cap 145 posts here sometimes as catbaiter.

Looks like he’s a couple of km from the top of the first major pass.
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Is Christan Meier really 24km out in front?
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Looks like it, tracker's moving same rate as others. 15% ahead of Jay P And Sofiane Sehili - someone may be peaking early in the season!
Edit, or not, maybe he's just fast -
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Yeah ok, fast then. Intersting to see what happens in the night!
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He's riding some custom bicycle that was all over the news feeds earlier in the week...

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Quite like that, apart from ive got back ache looking at them bars.
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Well,well, I was in Mollet Dels Valles where Belle Cycles are made this afternoon. We're in Barcelona as MrsPB is running the Barca 1/2 marathon tomorrow and I had a spin on the bike north of the city. I seem to remember Kiko Belle from a ride I did last year. The air quality here is rubbish compared to where we live.
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There’s a classic Rock Lobster with v brakes on the rear. Nice. Complete contrast to some of the bikes there
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^ and a Breezer with v brakes, lovely bike. Was admiring it in the square before the last TNR start.
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There's 2 rock lobsters in there I think ?
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Yep, two. A few v brakes, quite a few trek pro calibers, salsas (cutthroat or Fargo) and quite a lot of bomb tracks with a few spesh too. Nice mix of bikes, lots of aero and drop bars
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Anyone got an idea how much of the route is off-road ie not tarmac? I'm quite surprised by the seemingly low numbers of mountainbikes present.
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Re: Atlas Mountain Race.

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No clue.

Sofiane and Christian dukeing it out at almost 500km in the first 2 days :shock:
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