What: Tour
de Tampere: Extreme-TdT 300km, Guided Mtb-event.
When: 27.-28.May 2016
Participation
fee will be approximately 30 euros.
Compulsory
information meeting for participants: Friday 27.5. at 18.00 (6.00pm).
Event
start: Friday 27.5. at 19.00. Place: TESC
Event
finish: Saturday 28.5. at 18.00. Place: TESC
In a
nutshell: Tour de Tampere (TdT) is well organized MTB event which offers you a
great challenge to push the limits. There is a large variety of different
groups from 5 to 8 hours of riding on great surfaces around Tampere region at
your own level. There are groups not only for mountain bikers (XC- and enduro),
but also for Cyclo Crossers or even Trekking bikers. Great opportunity to get a
view on the nature surrounding Tampere. In years 2009-2015 there have been
200-300 participants per year.
If you’re
not satisfied to have “only” eight hard hours of MTB (which is already quite
challenging to most who already have a good MTB-experience), there is an extra
challenge: TdT-Extreme, twenty hours of riding quite technical trails but also
some gravel and tarmac roads. Shortly, that race (which actually isn’t a race
because we won’t race against others, just against tiredness...) includes two
loops. The first loop goes North from Tampere (destination Jämi), and second
loop to South, around lake Roine
Service:
The extreme group is based on high self-service idea. There is one service car
for some emergency cases, i.e. some member of the group is totally tired or
there comes some severe technical damages. Service car enables also some water
fillings in places where that’s not otherwise possible. Self-service, however,
does mean that you have to carry most of your liquids, gels, bars, tools, etc.
in your backbag.
Time schedule (some little changes may come
later):
- Compulsory
ridermeeting Friday 27.5. at 18.00. (TESC)
- The ride
starts at 19.00.
THE FIRST LOOP 19.00 (Friday) - 9.30 (Saturday)/
14½ hours, 190km/2250m vertical
Services
during the first loop (Water filling, technical assistance)
- Service
car/ short rest (20 min) approximately 23.00
o’clock at Kyröskoski.
- SC/ short
rest (30 min) approximately 2.00
o’clock at Jämi.
- SC
/breakfast (40 min) approximately 5.30
o’clock at Hämeenkyrö. (opportunity
to buy buffet breakfast/warm meal)
THE FIRST
LOOP ENDS at 9.30/ Back in TESC
-
Opportunity to get your service bag (change dry clothes, fill your backbag with
energy etc.)
THE SECOND LOOP 9.50 – 18.00/ eight and a half
hours, 110km/1356m vertical
- Service
car/ short rest (20 min) approximately 12.00 o’clock at Valkeakoski
- Service
car, rest and lunch (45 min) approximately 14.00 o’clock at Pälkäne (Aapiskukko). (Opportunity to fill your bottles and buy a warm meal.)
THE SECOND LOOP ENDS at 18.00 Saturday/ Finishline
in TESC. Warm meal and warm shower.
If you are interested to participate, you should
have GPS which enables you to follow the track in case you get lost or have no
visible contact to person in front of you. The track will be available on May (two
weeks before start) in our Facebook site. You should also have good technical
skills to ride your bike in variable terrains (stones, roots, up- and downhills
etc.). First of all you must have great physical and mental level of fitness!
Maximum number of participants is 20 with four guides
