The Tour Divide 2016 thread

Dodgy gps reading?

Or maybe giving others a sporting head start?

Getting some hill practice in? Looks a dodgy GPS reading. Zoom in far enough and quite a few of the riders are “in the woods”.

Looking at the sat image of the map that surely can’t be accurate for Mike Hall…

Epicyclo, that I know of,

Nigel Leech / Johnnystorm and SSer Tom Rowntree / Newretrotom
Ian McNab, 2013 vet
Greg May, Mike Hall and Guy Martin, and not forgetting Rob Colliver ‘in yellow’ as an ITT

Is “Terry Smith” Guy Martin? He’s 34 and a Brit so it’s a good guess

Good call! In that case he’s doing the ITT and started three days ago.

Terry Smith. A quintessential English name. Not very original though. I’d have gone for an anagram of Guy Martin

Martin Guy

OR

Gary Tumin

Any others?

God I’m bored. Nearly home time.

Mary Nugit? Bored too!!!.

Quite strange to think that if he did start today it would be on the same day as the big Pokerstars TT race. Looking forward to that tonight at 1015pm. On late because some odd game involving kicking a round object about. Sounds dull.

Tina Murgy? Three hours on a ferry and that’s the best I can do

Guy Martin = Aunty Grim? unlikely I know!

there’s an Adam Martinez. can’t get anything from the rider’s names.

jekkyl – Member
there’s an Adam Martinez. can’t get anything from the rider’s names.

There’s a bloke of that name who has cycled from Montreal to Florida, so maybe same guy. Right age.

Okay so 2 other STW’ers to look out for and their forum handles:
Nigel Leech – Johnnystorm
Tom Rowntree – NewRetroTom

Mike Hall’s SPOT seems to be FUBAR’d.

C’mon MIKE sort your tracker out!

I really want him to win this in the fastest time ever

If Guy is Terry and matches his target 20 days he should be finishing at about the same ti e as the race leaders

Can’t see guy doing it as an ITT, otherwise why not do it the week after the TT?

Unless there’s some other reason to set off early?

Greg’s having fun !

https://twitter.com/greg_may_/status/741502557084778496

Terry Smith looks to be doing a ride inspired by the Tour Divide rather than the actual route.

Eg Early on rode along the road on the East side of Spray Lake Reservoir.

My guess is he’s aiming to stay in front of the lead guys as long as possible while getting some interesting filming done (possibly off route at times).

Looks like difficult conditions this year so far, lots of cold wet riders.

Whoever is running Mike Hall’s FB page
https://m.facebook.com/Mike-Hall-245897802144495/
Suggests that his tracker isn’t working and to watch Josh Kato’s dot for where he might be. There’s also a picture of all the riders before the start, can anyone spot Guy?

Mike’s tracker is working now and ….. he’s up n out early n in the lead!

Looks like someone got the message to him at Eureka that his SPOT wasn’t working.

Guy Martin, top right, wearing blue.

whisky711 – Member
Guy Martin, top right, wearing blue.

link? Or have I missed something?

Thanks

No, top right and wearing blue is Crazy Larry

Checkin here from mike. Tracker seemingly cream crackered but looks like he’s got it working fine so not sure on that one! Great lead he’s pulled out though, all seemingly going to plan!

Has anyone seen the start list? TD website doesn’t look to have been updated since 2011.

It’s on Trackleaders – http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16

It’s on Trackleaders – http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16

Is that the actual start list, or just the list of people who’ve got Spot trackers on?

there isn’t really a start list as such afaik.
my understanding was that anyone can just turn up and set off with all the others, although presumably most or nearly all probably have spot tracker on the trackleaders thingy, and do declare their intention to participate.

Mike Hall is smashing it! He’s not far off catching Rob Colliver (off here) who started 4 days before Mike.

Mike’s nearly 100 miles further on than Josh Kato was at this time last year on his record ride.

Is that the actual start list

There’s also a googledocs list that is used as a delclaration of intent and to get contact details for riders in case of fire diversion etc but that won’t be a complete list either. It’s all a bit loose and unofficial in that area.

The problem if you intend to “race” the TD is that

“There is no finish time cut-off, however, current convention considers a competitive Divide Route finish time as approximately 1.5 times (x) course records. “

So if Mike Hall does drop the record to say 10.5 days that means only Josh Kato and Jay Petervary would currently record a “competitive” time if they repeated their record runs.

Having done a “mere” 210Km (130 miles) in the Dales yesterday I’m in awe of the distances these riders are doing day after day.

10.5 days

Optimistic : )

13 and a few hours? The sub 2-week barrier on a full course with no fire or snow re-routes seems to be a marker to hit. That’d make a competitive time 20.5 days ish, still very good going.

looks like Greg’s riding with Tom and 2 others, currently placing 25th out of 148 on the group start southbound. Keep it going Lads!
Mike Hall just 30 miles behind Rob.

Who’d like to take a guess in which position Guy might be running?

jekkyl – Member
…Who’d like to take a guess in which position Guy might be running?

Anyone worked out the pseudonym yet? 🙂