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There's discussion in fb about a group ride to Bandirma and taking a ferry from there to Istanbul on the 14th.

Also changes a lot atleast for me. During the first night of pbp I had to take a nap, or I had fallen asleep while riding. But then I only slept for about two or three hours during the whole pbp. Some days just can't fight it and then a week ago, at the fleche and the ride back home, I was awake for about 45 hours straight, mostly riding, no problems. Keeping that up for the next day would have been interesting.

Well that seems more human.

There's some hill called White Bird, Sarah and Steffen have just passed it and others just coming to it.

Hmm, yeah, seems incredible. Maybe the times are taken from trackleaders, and it doesn't even count the short stops as it doesn't record the location that often? So that time would only be the longer stops. But still.

@gabes The quote is about the TCR 2014.

@hippy Probably.
I think Allegaert trains to stay awake and doen't sleep much.
"the Belgian was moving for all but nine hours and 38 minutes of his eight-day race"

I think the ancient Australian cycling legend Oppy used to sleep for something like 45min at a time but like five times a day.

Yesterday I read she's slept for 1,5 and 2 hours. Alright for a long brevet but for over two weeks...

Yes, those are. But it's part of the adventure. And most of the route is probably more quiet, less cars and people?

Yep.

Quite eventful already with just a couple days in. Crash, thrown bottle, one had the bike stolen, Markku from Finland had he's tyre (tubeless, I think) torn or something and had to buy a new one from some bike shop in Eugene.

Interesting indeed. Is the 24hr tt the longest event for Sarah Hammond before this? Can she keep the pace? Lael probably can, with her expirience of long rides.

They also talk about "off piste Montenegro crossings"

And the problem would be allowing making arrangements before the race.

Yep, no point really to not give that possibility. Atleast if it's possible to everyone, no matter the nationality.

Yes, wonder why he hasn't answered that in the fb group as he usually has to questions about rules.

Yeah but I meant the discussion @frank9755 mentioned about crossing the border at some of the border crossings that aren't normally allowed for anybody but locals, where youd need to arrange a special visa for that. Although you would not need any visa to enter the country on the usual crossings. Dunno, but here's the discussions about that.

And I don't even need a visa for Turkey, as I'm from Finland.

Kind of mixed information when googling for Bosnia to Montenegro border crossings, wikipedia lists three, found some old news about opening new crossings and still here's only two mentioned.
Kosovo doesn't seem to require visas. Although it of course depends on where you're from. And if you can use the locals border crossings with some kind of special visa, but that would maybe be in the gray area of the rules, as you'd have to arrange that in andvance.

There seems to be a pretty old road around the tunnels of ss241, so they probably just want the riders to take that, instead of the narrow tunnels? Slower, but might be a really nice road, and it's the same for everyone who choose that route.

Good point those rims and nipples that you can change the spoke with the tyre in place.

About the tyre mounting, I meant also in addition to normal tubeless installing problems that some tubeless tyres and rims can be really difficult combination to stretch the tire onto the rim.

The spokes I've broken have often broken at the base of the threads so that a small pice of the spoke is left in the nipple, the threaded part. That makes the nipple unusable as it's pretty much impossible to get the piece out by the side of a road. And to take the nipple out, you'll have to take the rim tape off and might not be able to use the same tape again. I usually use a Herrmanns rim band that doesn't have glue on it, it's reusable.

I suppose the possible problems with tubeless touring would be tyre mounting and spoke replacement. The tyres and rims can be hard to mount, compared to normal clinchers, at least some of them, so might not be that nice to get the tube in while in a cold rain. And replacing a spoke would mean the rim tape would have to be removed and you'd need to have a spare with you.

Looks a lot like the Shutter precisions, doesn't it? And the description sounds like it too. Slightly different hub shell, but SP also does the Supernova hubs, that have their own shape, but same internals, with some additional seals, or so I've read. The plastic part on the side, with the connectors and plug, even seems to have the SP logo on it, allthough can't see all of it in the pictures.
So it's good, but might as well buy SP PV-8, as you can get it cheeper.

A tire measuring 32mm is really tight with a mudguard on a steamroller and can be hard to even get it ridable, the clearance is rather nonexistent even with a 30mm. I've been happier with something around 28mm. But yes, it can be done.

I guess there's no option but to just do it internally if that's what you want, but it might also be pretty subtle to put heat shrink tubing or something like that on the gear cable on the downtube and route the taillight cable in it to the rear mech. And then drill the racks leg for the cable.

I just got a dynamo taillight too, and put the cable under the rear brake cable clips I have on the top tube, as there's no braze ons. And am looking for alternatives.

Haha, yep, some people do take them as races, but you know what I mean. Probably the biggest difference would be riding alone, no drafting.

This sounds interesting too: http://hardcro.com/

Might be a nice place to visit.

1400km with all kinds of services on the controls, so bit like PBP, LEL or other big brevets, but racing.

Wouldn't say not having rack mounts is that big of a deal with the support struts on a bagman, as there won't be much pressure on them, so a seatpost clamp with eyelet for this is enough. I believe carradice sells one, and there are others too. Or they can be bolted to the brake bridge like I did (there's a picture a couple of pages back). Bit of a bodge, but does the job.

I think the section 5.1.1 means just that?

That it would be only applicable to the pictures and actions performed during the Term, which is the duration of the event.