Lost Dot Podcast: The Transcontinental, Trans Pyrenees, and Accursed Race.

In this sixth episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Rob and Karen host whilst Tom still makes his way across Europe. The main topics include the Durmitor Control Point - routing options and resupply to get there, and onwards. Listener questions include the integration of professional riders within bikepacking events; what even makes a rider pro? Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probe...

In this packed fifth episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Karen and Beccy host whilst Tom travels across Europe. Too much to mention in a pod description as the race thins out over a greater distance. Tens of riders are still passing through the Italian Alps, whilst the front-riders tussle in the Balkans. Listener questions include the advantages/disadvantages of riding as a pair and post...

In this fourth episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Tom hosts live at CP2. Joined by Control Point volunteer and ex-racer, Chris Thomas, as well as regulars Karen Tostee and Rob Quirk, they chat everything TCR Day 4 - cut offs, conditions and clothing - as the riders take on the Gavia Pass in the background... Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert Music: Joe Skinner

Follow the eighth edition of the Transcontinental Race - cycling's definitive self-supported race across Europe - with TCR veteran Tom Probert, and guests. Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert Music: Joe Skinner

In this third episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Tom chats to TCR veterans Karen Tostee and Rob Quirk about the everything first Control Point - everything from the fight for first to mid-pack stories, and a few questions about scratching and navigation... Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert Music: Joe Skinner

In this second episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Tom chats to TCR veterans Beccy Waters and Rob Quirk about the first 24-hours of action, as all the riders headed east through northern Germany... Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert Music: Joe Skinner

Tom documents Race day - from meeting riders and mechanics at registration, to hearing from long-term local volunteers about Geraardsbergen and why it is the spiritual home of the TCR, to the magical night start up the cobbled, torchlit Muur... Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert Music: Joe Skinner

Follow the eighth edition of the Transcontinental Race - cycling's definitive self-supported race across Europe - with TCR veteran Tom Probert, and guests. In this first episode of the Transcontinental DAILY series, Tom chats to TCR veterans Karen Tostee and Rob Quirk about what it's like to prep for the Race and what to expect from the big start... Hosting, Production & Editing: Tom Probert M...

In this first episode of the Transcontinental DOC series, Tom sets the scene for the Race and previews the eighth-edition of the TCR alongside a whole host of guests: Race Director and Coordinator - Anna Haslock and David Ayre; Dotwatcher and veteran - Beccy Waters; Race volunteer - Jan-Willem Bobbink; and some of this year's racers - Fiona Kolbinger, Ulrich Bartholmoes, Christoph Strasser, Stepha...

In the third and final episode of the Lost Dot podcast from Trans Pyrenees No 1, Tom Bonnett, Rory Kemper and Tom Hardie meet the riders racing to make the finish before the cut off time and follow their dash across the mountains to the end. Race Director Anna Haslock tells the story of the top two riders and we hear from fastest woman Ede Harrison and the winning pair at the finishing party. Pres...

Picking up from Control Point 1 where we last spoke to the riders, the Lost Dot Podcast catches up with Ede Harrison and Ingeborg Dybal Oie who are scrapping for first and second in the women's race. They have chased each other on a grinding gravel ascent to Andorra, then climbed back into a French landscape of closed shops and then battled the wind to reach Salvador Dali country for the final Con...

Everything you need to know about the new race from the team behind the Transcontinental as the riders rolls out of Biarritz and immerse themselves into the mountains. Produced and Presented by Tom Bonnett Music by Vegyn, Keplr, LTO, Old Apparatus, Hirola Photograph: Tom Hardie