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Mike was absolutely one of the finest humans I've ever met. He was good humoured, generous and incredibly humble despite his many accomplishments.

I first heard about Mike through the world cycle race. I was a 15 year old who'd just got into cycling and Mike's achievement provided a beacon of what cycling could offer. Fast forward 4 years and I'm at TCR 2015 and I finally get to meet an idol in person. I get to the bottom of Mt Ventoux as a sunburnt crisp and I'm sitting eating a pizza and then Mike comes out of nowhere and eats one with me.

At the end of the race he came up to me and said 'I may have put you off of these things for the rest of your life but I hope not'. He hadn't. The following year, despite my initial reluctance, I was back again. Thanks to Mike my life has been irrevocably changed for the better. I'm now happier, healthier, more motivated and seen and experienced some incredible things that I otherwise wouldn't.

Mike's leaving behind a giant hole in the world but also an incredibly diverse community enamoured with pushing themselves beyond their expectations.

Below is picture that I took on one of the Valley Cats in Wales. I think it perfectly encapsulates what Mike has given me. Hours before this photo was taken I was shivering in a public toilet, filling my clothes with toilet paper and covering myself in bin bags but retrospectively I look back on that moment great fondness. After, I was rewarded with cycling through the Welsh countryside as the sun rose - a part of the world that I know Mike loved.

My feelings must pale in comparison to that of his family and my thoughts are with Anna, Patricia and Russ. Those three provided unadulterated support for Mike in all of his endeavours.

Thank you Mike and Rest in Peace.

It's seems it's the case. IPWR cancelled.

Rest in power Mike

I think Mike has a fancy one that sends out messages and such. Apparently he told Anna he was planning to stop for a sleep at the approximate time his tracker stopped.

Apparently it's a motorcycle - Mike's just having a final snooze

What's up with Mike?

Pretty awesome he's still going

The TCR has a unique feel to it unlike the other ultra-endurance races but this event, to an extent, made up for it with the crazy amount of support it received. Additionally, this event is the only event I've witnessed that has had serious contention for the top spot bar TransAm 2016.

But yeah overall I agree and Transcontinental 2017 is going to pretty especially exciting with @skinny defeating Kristof by at least a day or two :)

Eeek... Mike taking the wrong route

That's definitely my conclusion

I had some that vaguely changed colour depending on the amount of light.

Mike's still checking - his twitter is pretty active. He sounds a bit high

Frank's been averaging 301.68km per day.

He's got 2051km to go which means to hit his target he needs to average 267

Kristof has just slept for ages - he's gonna smash this

Edit: although perhaps longer-term sleep debt has a greater impact than short term..?

We need more in-your-face-vloggers

https://www.facebook.com/IndianPacificWheelRace/videos/409643959410994/

Kristof has retaken the lead, if the trackers are alright. I think he's got this race - 1000km to go on no more sleep seems expectable. I did 700kmish on my final stint and I'm an ultra-endurance turd who wasn't racing anybody (aside from myself)

Updated finally... Mike is the new leader of the race but is only 3km ahead of Kristof. This is tense - it's basically going to come down to who can not sleep till Sidney.

Really? I saw another dude say someone had seen him at the top of the climb about 5 hours ago.

Edit: nevermind
"Hoping Kristof is OK this morning. Having welcomed him to the area earlier in the night, I was up late working whilst dot watching. Seeing his dot stationery on the back of Falls climb I thought I would go for a drive to check that he wasn't freezing to death. At 2:30am I came across a bike parked by the side of the road, with a person covered in tent material lying on the road asleep, basically where his dot had stopped. Of course I didn't want to disturb him and marveled at his ability to sleep anywhere but am a little concerned having woken up and found his dot hasn't moved. It was a cold night last night and he was sleeping on the road itself. There is basically no traffic out there and he was on a part of the steep climb where there is nowhere to get off the road."

I was looking at that - it could be tracker error

Also, why would you stop 17km from the top of a climb

Kristof has been inactive for over 6 hours now. He's got 1061km to go - is this his final sleep?

Damn. That's impressive - chapeau.

@frank9755 is back on the move and heading into Adelaide!

On his Facebook

@frank9755 -keep going, you've been doing super well. Should get more fun now as well

A message to that extent kinda went out.

But still kudos to Australia for getting everyone so into the race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2I7ZTlPlc

God all those cycle paths look shit, is that part of the route?

I've used SL's for both - no problems what at all. Maybe take 1 spare cleat - pretty unlikely you'd break both