The Tour Divide 2016 thread

I’ve just heard from ‘Terry Smith’. He’s back at work on Tuesday 😉

I’ve just heard from ‘Terry Smith’. He’s back at work on Tuesday

Fair play to him. I think I’d be taking a month off to get over it if I was him 😆

He’ll probably be in better nick than if he’d done the TT. 🙂

Look’s like Greg May’s out: https://twitter.com/greg_may_/status/747433884933984256 🙁

🙁 That’s rubbish.

PooP 🙁

Oh no, thats terrible 🙁

Bugger.

hes not out yet, needs to sort his head and bike out and ge’ll be back on it 😉

He was showing as active on the tracker board so that explains it. Go Greg!

Twitter not updated? Is confused.

Yep he’s still going
http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16i.php?name=Greg_May

Current speed 16.5 mph
Route mile 2239.1 miles

Currently at 17 days 5 hours and 30 minutes in

Projected finishing time 20 days 20 hours & 52minutes

#GoGreg

hes probably got other things on his mind than uodating twitter

Keep the head in the game grreg, dig deep. Alwys remember What would george berwick do.

Any mention of what the race ending mechanical was and how it was fixed?

Tom is at 2,532 miles. Not far to go now (relatively).

Sounds like a mech hanger:( . Rollin ss now and people looking for a salsa dealer.

My George Berwick zip tied frame may not be helping but It sounds like he is carrying on.

Not critiscing Greg in any way, but both he and Lee Fancourt in Trans Am reported race ending rear mech hanger failures and the associated trouble in having to SS bike, i think for the sake of a few grams, i’d carry a spare mech hanger? (as said not having a go, as they amaze me with their determination and fitnes)

Very sad news ,more so when you have read and followed all the planning,training and preperation for this ride.
I hope he still gets to the border ,even with some assistance.

tbh scud .

in all my years of riding a bike ive never seen a rear mech hanger fail on its own , usually wipes out any combo of parts of wheels / deraileurs / chain links / cable

Which means where do you stop – do you also take a mech and some spokes ?

Maybe he was carrying a spare mech hanger and it broke already.
I hope greg’s got the correct gpx, I know some entrants have had some issues with that this year 😛

Which entrants is that Jekkyl?

I’m in for it next year and I’m already hanging on to every real world experience I can find but part of me is already thinking that the spirit of the race is to just get out there and experience it. Maybe planning too much for every eventuality?

trail_rat – Member
…Which means where do you stop – do you also take a mech and some spokes ?

I thought you’d know the answer to that. A singlespeed. 🙂

dont need an intact mech hanger for that 😀

He must have been very unlucky to have a mech issue unless I am misreading the route they are taking. Following Tom it looks predominately fireroad/road, so does anyone know if there is much ST? Mind you with tiredness, a stray stick could jump out of nowhere. Hope he makes it and take it home today Tom 8)

The big potential issue is New Mexico mud. It has a consistency which means you can’t ride or even push the bike. Massively blocks everything up. And can easy snap mechs and hangers.

Plus there are some rocky trails on the route in pockets. Especially before Cuba

It’s a big part of why the race is in June. To more likely avoid summer thunderstorms down in Colorado and New Mexico. And even wild fires. But of course snow could be lingering up North.

[/quote]Plus there are some rocky trails on the route in pockets. Especially before Cuba

Bloody hell I knew it was a long race but hadn’t realised you had to cross the Caribbean 😯

Tom has 100 miles to go.

And Greg is up and running again. Next place Pie Town.

Greg had a spare hanger with him

Awesome work Tom. Eighth overall is truly impressive.

kraftyslices – Member
Awesome work Tom. Eighth overall is truly impressive.

It certainly is. Well done Tom.

As Steve says.

It was rear mech and some manipulation required.

Things like this were sent to test your mettle and are the story’s you remember in years to come

Looks like Rob Colliver is due to finish today. If he gets in before 3pm our time, then that will be sub 21 days.

Does anyone know why Rob’s tracker says Off Route and doesn’t show all the usual details? It looks like he’s currently on the route.

Robs “back on track”

CURRENT SPEED: 9.2 mph at route mile 2660.0
LAST REPORT: 04:24:44 AM (MDT) 06/29/16 (7 minutes ago)

Not sure about Rob’s tracker – the last 60 miles or so would appear to be on tarmac and there aren’t that many roads in the area so it would be hard to go off-route and not realise it.

35 miles left for Rob.

Go Rob,well done that man.

Rob at Antilope Wells 🙂

good work.