Rudi Pollard

They replace slime everyday and go through probably 3-4 sets of tyres during the race so highly unlikely! If you cannot get a tyre of a rim to tube it, its a rookie mistake in my book

They have struggled to get this right forever. They should just give up on the tracking part of it and just use the trackers as emergency buttons for all riders when they need medical help.

From the footage it looks like nino and lars couldnt get the tyre off the rim to tube it. Rookie error. It might be that they are to used to the XC circuit where the tech zone is never too far away

He already provided Alan/Matt with a wheel earlier this morning so he is a bit back at the moment. He replaced his front wheel at the tech zone on the live broadcast

Yip. If you continue Solo you have to wear the outcast jersey and you cannot interfere with the racing. So Jaro will not be able to help any of the spez teams AFAIK.

Gaze officially started the stage and stopped after 100m. So Jaro will be outcast from tomorrow if he continues.

The control and sworks casings was stopped about 18-24 months ago. You now get gripton and gripton Grid. I rode epic last year with standard gripton and had zero issues. On average I get between 6000 and 8000km on a Spez Fast Trak so absolutely nothing wrong with them. Like I said a few days ago. If you ride sh*t lines, no tyre is going to save you at the Epic

9min gap between cannondale and scott

Ultra reliable Maxxis... They cannot puncture

Backup team has just given them their wheel

They'll swap the wheel at the first water point where they have spares

Lost around 5 minutes. To be confirmed

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Scott Sram has punctured. Cannondale leading by themselves

Heli is grounded. Too dangerous to fly at the moment. The first 30mins of the live broadcast is an update on yesterday and then a catch up of the first 2 hours of racing before they go full live from about 10ish

It only starts at 9am. Hopefully tomorrow it will be earlier as the elites go off first in the time trial

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Sam destroyed himself all by his lonesome I'm afraid... This is the first time Kulhavy has lost his partner

And Sam Gaze has pulled out a few km into todays stage. #Imshocked

everyone in that group took the corner a bit short. To compare it to Kevin Evans picking his bike up, running through the field and pushing in front of other riders is very harsh in my opinion.

Sam confirmed on Twitter that he was in pain from head to toe for the entire stage today but he'll continue. They are out of the running for a podium so I guess they'll support the other two teams now and go for a stage win on the time trial or grand finale...

Its a difficult one as the guys at the front of A batch is generally chasing a top 40 or 50 finish. So either the quick A batch man catches the ladies, or the ladies catches the back of the A bunch guys riding for a top 85... And they cannot really make the gaps between batches any bigger as the back markers will have even less time to finish. In my opinion from riding last year in the A batch, what they are currently doing is the best solution. You definitely know that they are approaching as the lead bike politely asks you to let them pass at first opportunity. Then you slot in behind Kate Courtney and hang on for about a minute before she drops you...

Not sure what happened in the second half of todays stage as they were on pace till about halfway.

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Howard grotts pulled out due to illness. Gaze moved up to ride with yaro and beers got paired with Alan. Nico Bell also had health issues which made that decision easier... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk