Interested to find out who’s going to be lining up for the Tour Divide this summer? Myself and couple of other guys have our flights booked and names down. Or anyone racing the GDR?

PM me on MTBR (mechengsteve) if you want to get in touch.

Good luck steve, I won’t be lining up but am looking forward to following the ride on the web.

Looks like a really good UK bunch this year judging by the Provisional Start List

I hope the excellent coverage on MTB Cast continues. I’ll be doing a Paypal donation as soon as that starts going.

Steve, this is your second race, isn’t it? Going back for more pain, big respect! Good luck to you and all the other Divide racers 🙂

Kicks off tomorrow folks…gonna be a good one 🙂

http://tourdivide.org/

Don’t forget MTBCast for the excellent coverage…

http://mtbcast.com/wordpress/

Thanks for the reminder.

Another *bump* for this.

You can even follow where the riders are! Here’s 5teve.

best of luck to all involved.

Got my kit sorted just not got the cash , skint 🙁

I have the call-in and Spot pages saved in bookmarks ready for the daily check in each morning with breakfast.

Good luck to all involved!

SSP

Steve (Wilkinson) and Alan Goldsmith are way up there and setting a blistering pace – keep it up guys!

🙂

Photos from the start: http://picasaweb.google.com/marniplesko/TourDivide2009Start#

Chris Plesko looks amazingly lightly packed; like he’s out for a day ride! You can tell who’s done it before, and who the fast guys are, from how little they look like they’re carrying.

As if it’s not hard enough already, but rigid Singlespeed?!? Chapeau indeed.

As if it’s not hard enough already, but rigid Singlespeed?!? Chapeau indeed.

It’s been done rigid SS before, including by a girl 😉

there is a tandem team doing it 🙂

Tracey & Jay Petervary

They appear to be in third place