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Alright so about to bite the bullet on a dynamo set-up and am thinking:

Rims: H Plus Son Archetype 24h
Front hub: Shutter Precision 9 series
Rear hub: Ultegra
Front light: Supernova E3 Pro 2
USB: Supernova Plug III

So any obvious substitutions? I'm hoping for a discount on the Supernova stuff so bare that in mind.

Any experience with the SP-9 series? There's not too much on the internet about it

Just watched the film. Looks like a good race - good scenery and seemed like not too many cars.

@skinny Yeah I'll be there

http://bikepackersmagazine.com/transcontinental-race-releases-2016-controls/

Controls have been released

Looks like less traffic and more climbing

Bump price drop

I perhaps didn't explain that part too well. This is exactly what he said to me:

You need to go out for 3-4 hours without eating breakfast, then start eating carbs the moment you go light headed. This will improve as your body adapts to using your fat stores for fuel. This is the key adaptation you need to make. Keep to 70% of max heart rate. Of all your training this is the most important.

I think though that it's important to do a few longer rides just so I knew that I was capable of going for longer although physically it wouldn't help too much.

@howradmichello definitely getting a bivy bag next time. I find the sleeping the most difficult part if I could have just crashed anywhere I probably would have saved a lot of time.

@stedlocks thanks, I think that's his subtle way of saying not to do it again. I'm not sure yet but I've been thinking about it more and more

I'm honoured by these comments - thanks a lot everybody! I had a great time writing up the race.

@skinny The Albanians were brilliant - the family that took me in really made a great deal of effort out of me being there. Everybody else was super friendly the only problem were the road conditions and my lack of Albanian currency.

I'm routing for you next year though

http://www.transcontinentaljoe.com/blog
Finally done my write up

Are you allowed to cache an entire bike? Say after the Rockies could you have your TT bike ready to zoom across Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky?

It reads super french. One of my favourites so far - looking forward to the next chapter

Bump, more items and details added

Are there drop bar converters similar those sticky things people put on mountain bikes? Although a quick Google has revealed nothing.

To be honest the drops were the position I used least. Top two were on the hoods and on the tri bars followed by climbing on the pads. I only used the drops for really hardcore descending and even though I might have used the tri bars had I had brakes installed on them. I reckon you could get away without them

He also said at the end he just rode 'something he was used to'.

He got screwed on Assietta and by crazy Bulgarian taxi drivers, two things that you probably won't have to encounter in America

@hippy Some custom handlebars? Are they are thing?

I trapped a nerve on the TCR however that was entirely avoidable. When I got to Italy I knew it was going to be flat and so I moved my seat up and forwards in order to get a more comfortable/better aero position. It was good for the first two days where I was largely by myself but on the third day I cycled chatting to someone for about 4 hours and spent most of my the time with the palms of my hands on the tops of the bars.

When I got to Slovenia and the hills started I moved my seat down and back and the situation stopped getting worse although it was still too late - my little finger after almost a month still won't straighten, it's nothing painful though.

I'd definitely be interested in aero bars where the pads can fold up however I don't know if there is a compromise to be made somewhere on these.

I couldn't find a photo of the great man himself but here is a photo he posted of his bike at the finish line.

And his words-
'tcr 2015 done with a 70 euros' second hand bike. challenge succeeded. as Mike has said somewhere you can do that with à vintage bike. i suppose i am the last Guy because i have not thrown in the towel , it's a little bit stupid but Lee Pearce is guilty too when hé has said me just before the start of the race it was possible to do that with à steel bike. i thought often at these words during the trip even when he was on the boat and me somewhere in france with ice on thé bottom. it resounded in my head but now i have lost my job my wife has left the house and childs don't speak with me. what is wrong with you Lee? thanks you for support thanks Douglas Migden Sarah Searle Stefano T. Fabrizi Lee and all thé other. I have finished now Josh can said he has won.'

I really hope the bike cafe has stayed open for a bit longer today! They close at midnight normally - it'd be such a shame if there was nobody to meet him.

David is on the move again! Not far from Istanbul!

I wonder what happened in these last 48 hours..

@cliveo so the Sedona cafe (the finish line) haven't reported anything. Also David's mum is on the Facebook site, hopefully upon his finish she'll get a call and inform all of us - it's now been 12 hours since she last posted anything.

Also I wouldn't worry too much about dogs, they're more bark than bite. They never made contact with me they'd just follow barking.

@cliveo thanks!

I can't remember my distance from Plovdiv (430km rings a bell) but I remember I had 300km to go from the Turkish border.

Hopefully he'll head to the Sedona Bike café if he arrives between 7am and midnight which is now the official finish line. They gave every competitor a free coffee and they had spent the year collecting bike boxes for everyone

@skinny is that going to be prep for a future Tour Divide? Are you going back for TCR seconds next year?

I need to find myself a race for next year (perhaps TCR) but I'm not ready to go off-road yet, any suggestions?

I heard a Galipoli finish which would shorten it and probably make the run into Turkey less dangerous and monotonous however it doesn't sound nearly as cool as Istanbul in terms of race title and city.

It'd be cool to see a checkpoint in Austria, you'd probably get more Alps, Germany and it would shorten/end the Po Valley.

Another thing I heard but this may have been entirely rumour, sparked partly by Alleagert, was the idea of running the race from Gibraltar to St. Petersburg although it would probably be too long.

I am seriously impressed with David, I just checked where he was and at that point I was feeling pretty shit. If I was there and thought I had two weeks at least to go I would have certainly gone home. Bloody chapeau to him!

@skinny hope the ride to Split is more fun, absolutely crazy for doing that. I haven't ridden more than 10 miles in total yet since