01 Tomorrow, Sat 24.8.23 – Transiberica Bike Race 2024 – Live Tracking (Cap75) & About the Race

Hi there! After one adventure-cycling gap year (did no big event in 2023), something‘s on again: TRANSIBERICA RACE. And the route is a dream!! 2600km with lots of iconic mountain climbs, in the most beautiful regions of Europe: from Bolzano/Italy to Bilbao/Spain. Start is on Sat. 24th of August 08:00h am in Bolzano, Italy, and of course it’s with live tracking and followed on social media.

Transiberica facts & figures:

Transiberica is a (attention please…) self-supported free-route ‘ultra’-endurance single-stage bike-packing time-trial in the spirit of Mike Hall†. That means…

• Start: Bolzano (IT), Finish: Bilbao (ES)
• Start time: Saturday, 24th of August 2024, 8 am
• 10 Checkpoints (CPs), most of them on summits or passes, all across the Alps, Massif Central (FR), Pyrenees and Northern Spanish mountains. Roughly following the East-West direction
• free route choice, except for compulsory parcours at the start and CP 10
• ca. 2.700km and 35.000m of cumulative climbing
• self-supported, i.e. carry your own luggage, no outside assistance, no supply pre-arranged
• single-stage, i.e. the clock never stops; there are no fixed stages or stops, neither for sleeping
• ca. 150 participants (including a few in pairs category, but most solo), all genders competing in the same category
• more detailed rules: see here

>>Here’s a link to a map to check the CPs in detail.<<

How to follow the event and me (in realtime)…

Despite the geographical spread of events, endurance bicycle racing is a spectator sport. Each rider has their own GPS-tracker:

• Riders’ locations can be tracked in realtime on www.followmychallenge.com/live/transiberica24/
• I am rider number 75 (“Cap75”)
• I’ll also upload everyday on my Strava: Malte Cyclingtourist

Additionally it is vividly accompanied on social-media

• you can follow me best on Instagram: @malte.cc (will post short stories from the road, repost things, and you find more information about my background and gear)
• official race-account on Instagram: @transiberica_club
• great social-media and other reporting on www.dotwatcher.cc/race/transiberica-2021

I’m always happy to hear from you. Encouraging messages, cheering, etc. are highly motivating (also to the other riders!). I may not always be able to reply immediately, but be sure I read messages and mentions with great pleasure!