[Gkam84]

Personally, if I was in the
Personally, if I was in the frame of mind for taking on RAAM, I’d look at something similar closer to home first.

1, to see that I have the ability to go day in day out without much sleep and still get the miles in.
2, to form a strong crew, weed out those unable to cope with what is needed over a 10 day event, because the crew also get little sleep.

Many more reasons aswell. For UK riders.

Take a look at Race around Ireland http://racearoundireland.com/

[Gkam84]

The benefit of having Sagan
The benefit of having Sagan over an out and out sprinter, he doesn’t need any back up riders, so having him in a GT riders team doesn’t really take away from a GT’s support.

So he’ll have no issues slotting into a Contador GT team 😉

[Gkam84]

The WWC is still showing
The WWC is still showing because there are still 3 races left.

There will be prizes for them, but I guess Dave forgot to fill them out 😉

[Gkam84]

You can show them your
You can show them your ability by taking on certain challenges, like doing LeJog in 3 days or anything like that, but it all has to be agreed by UMCA beforehand.

[Gkam84]

Well first of all, you need
Well first of all, you need to do an event that can qualify you to compete in RAAM, alot of people don’t know that, the problem being, there are only two each year in the UK and they are both 24hr TT’s

http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam/raam2.php?N_webcat_id=230

So once you know what you are aiming for, you should set your goals to get qualified. If you do then qualify, you will need to raise a shed load of cash, for a solo effort, you need to have a minimum of 6 Crew and 2 Support Vehicles. One normally being some kind of motorhome. Then you need to think about fuelling them both for around 8000 miles (4000 each).

You need to find a good crew with experience and cover their costs of getting to and from RAAM. In many ways you are just as cheap to take crew from the UK as you are to finding them in America.

You need food for all the crew, insurance, $2000 for the entry fee, Start and Finish line hotels for everyone because you need to be there before the event a couple of days to sort everything out.

Coming from the UK, I’d estimate you’d need to budget at least £25,000 to make sure everything was covered, I wouldn’t say you’ll need all that, but better to be safe than sorry.

Then you need to work out that you have 12 days to cycle over 3000 miles, you have to make certain times to continue in the race, there are time stations and cut off deadlines. Where if you are not at station 6 by X time, you are out of the race.

So it isn’t just simply working out, 3000/12 and thinking, I can get away with 250 miles per day.

If I haven’t put you off yet, I could go into more detail or put you in touch with people who can go more in depth and have done it themselves.

[Gkam84]

I have him, but thought he
I have him, but thought he had been caught at gone

[Gkam84]

Sagan abandons
Sagan abandons 👿

[Gkam84]

Right size, wrong type,
Right size, wrong type, trying to get ahold of a track bike 😉

[Gkam84]

Tony Gallopin
Philippe
Tony Gallopin
Philippe Gilbert
Alejandro Valverde
Gianni Meersman
Mikel Nieve
Mikel Landa
Daniel Oss
David Arroyo
Kristijan Durasek

Amets Txurruka
Greg Van Avermaet
Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil
Tom Jelte Slagter
Michael Albasini
Ramunas Navardauskas
Tejay Van Garderen
Sean De Bie
Hubert Dupont

[Gkam84]

I would guess it might be
I would guess it might be team sponsors that aren’t also sponsoring the games. Movistar would be ok, because O2 are sponsors I believe.

But just on that note, watching the 10,000m the Isle of Man runner had the three leg logo taped over on his back….

[Gkam84]

Here is the council map
Here is the council map http://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=13302&p=0

This is the “best” route map http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/zuvvi/media/bc_images/bc_road/2014/2014-Glasgow-TT-map-1000.jpg

[Gkam84]

Competition winner A Verenti
Competition winner A Verenti Revelation road bike and dhb kit bundle £2000.00
Competition runner up A Verenti Insight road bike £750.00
Competition third place A dhb kit bundle wth new Goldline kit £250.00
Purist winner A dhb kit bundle wth new Goldline kit £250.00
Stage winner A set of dhb triple lens sunglasses £29.99
Raffle winner A bundle of Lifeline goodies and Wiggle sports nutrition £200.00

[Gkam84]

internet explorer…..i
internet explorer…..i thought that died years ago 👿

[Gkam84]

My bad, actually, PolishDave
My bad, actually, PolishDave does win another bike. There used to be a rule you couldn’t win two big prizes last year, but it is not the case this year.

He now had two Verenti Insight’s 👿

Next time someone moans about the £10 for premium, just look at PolishDave. Not a premium user and has scooped £1950 worth of bikes already

[Gkam84]

For all those that are about
For all those that are about to compare the two types of transfers. Rolling or a whole lot at the start like Skoda, here are the top 3 from each

Road.cc

1 Gmancervelo Gmancervelo 2919
2 Polski Grifter Club PolishDave 2916
3 4.15pm E Morton 2910

Skoda

1 Caline Team AYASAR 2950
2 Abbyroo’s Kangaroos sillco 2947
3 Tompoy gowig12 2929

Not a huge amount of a different, I feel sorry for PolishDave, because I don’t think you can win two major prizes (bikes) in one season

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