Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby roller » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:30 am
Which is about as fast as i did some of it during 3 peaks.
What a strange experience it must be arriving at #Say What corner in the middle of the night and taking on that climb, i wonder if after this race they'll have fond memories of Australia.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby cancan64 » Wed Mar 29, 2017 7:51 am
I use DI2 for my bikepacking and can charge using my USB powerpack... although you still need to be able to charge the USB powerpackThoglette wrote:Dynamo hubs for your shifters, perhaps? Or should we follow Audax rules: two independent sets of electronic shifters?
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:43 am
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby RobertL » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:15 am
It was a bit exciting there for a short while this morning!cancan64 wrote:disregard all of the above
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby cyclotaur » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:34 am
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CXCommuter » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:34 am
Still exciting- both in Falls Creek ATM!RobertL wrote:It was a bit exciting there for a short while this morning!cancan64 wrote:disregard all of the above
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:43 am
Kristoff has certainly lost competitive advantage, so it's easy to presume he's feeling the stress.
Mike said yesterday he was right off his game suffering sleep deprivation, as did Sarah. Both overly tired, but all of them had at least 4 hours based on changes in gaps.
It certainly looks like it's going to be a different race now.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby roller » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:47 am
"Mike passed Kristof while Kristof was eating out the front of the Foodworks."
It's all set up for an epic battle to the finish now.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:58 am
So presume Mike's GPS didn't update until after he'd ridden past K (when K was stopped).
Either way, they are within a km of each other near Bogong.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby roller » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:01 pm
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby 2sharp » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:11 pm
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby Red Rider » Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:03 pm
Maven went back to the turnoff, but Tracking Jack made the same mistake and didn't retrace his steps to the correct turnoff.2sharp wrote:Some news from my scan of social media just now:
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Maven took the wrong route at the entrance to Port Augusta and will have to backtrack 20km tomorrow to correct.
Mike 3km ahead of Kristoff heading up to Tawonga Gap, which will probably be 6km+ once they're off the hill. It looks like Kristoff took a nature break just before Anglers Rest and headed the wrong way for a k or so before realising his error.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:11 pm
It would logical for Mike to keep the pressure on while K is tired, and try to build a gap.
It would be so hard to find new energy reserves at this stage of this race!
And yes Maven left it for others to infer, that Tracking Jack didn't backtrack.
The rules on the IPWR website say you must go back to the point you left the route.
But I think I read elsewhere that the judges don't care if you didn't get a time advantage by taking a shorter route, and TJ's route was certainly not shorter.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CXCommuter » Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:13 pm
Yup getting fat on the popcorn hereroller wrote:I wish this was on telly
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby cyclotaur » Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:17 pm
If they were actually battling away for a spot in the top ten it might matter, but I think we all just hope to see these guys and the likes of 74yo Paul Ardill and 18yo Lochie Kavanagh (and everyone in between) just make it home in one piece. They are doing great.CKinnard wrote:....
The rules on the IPWR website say you must go back to the point you left the route.
But I think I read elsewhere that the judges don't care if you didn't get a time advantage by taking a shorter route, and TJ's route was certainly not shorter.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:34 pm
Yes we all want to see them get home irrespective of the safety measures they take.
No they are not racing for sheep stations.
But Maven turned around and went an extra 40k's to comply with the letter of the rules, and TrackingJack didn't, and suffered no more than a 3km difference! Different strokes for different folks....and a point that short new rules confound.
Interestingly, JuJu is motoring since all her puncture issues and is 130km from the SA border. 1366km down.
And Ben Hirons, the mate who witnessed Eoin hit by a car and retired, is back in the race!
Sarah has lost distance today. She is now 200k behind the boys and yet to start the climb to FC.
Kai has gained on her, 60k behind.
Mike has 9k on Kristof as they bypass Myrtleford.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby ryan_rides » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:12 pm
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby 2sharp » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:00 pm
Wonder if they just picked that up off her social media posts? Hope they brought the right size tubesCKinnard wrote:JuJu. Wow what a story. So the same two truckers that drove her to Perth were the first to drive past and drop off tubes. Don't know how much planning went into that, but definitely a story to be mainstreamed to counter the usual wind up.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby CKinnard » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:34 pm
Upfront, Mike is growing his lead as he rolls into Beechworth, 16km now.
Sarah seems to be moving at a good pace again and has pulled away from Kai a little.
Mavin's 70km ahead of TrackingJack now when TJ had a 40k lead around 9am when Mavin was back on route. hmmm.
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Re: Inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race
Postby cyclotaur » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:43 pm
Depends on when the mistake was discovered. If JJ was many kms down the road when he found out, and not stopped in PA for the night like Maven, he may have just decided against it.CKinnard wrote:Yes they are all doing great.
Yes we all want to see them get home irrespective of the safety measures they take.
No they are not racing for sheep stations.
But Maven turned around and went an extra 40k's to comply with the letter of the rules, and TrackingJack didn't, and suffered no more than a 3km difference! Different strokes for different folks....and a point that short new rules confound.
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Anyway, good on Maven but I wouldn't hold it against JJ for carrying on forward. He may not be too concerned with the strict rules anyway. I wouldn't be if I was still the other side of Adelaide.
Meanwhile, at the pointy end....
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