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The Trans Am Bike Race (TABR) is an annual, self-supported, ultra-distance cycling race across the United States. The route is about 4,200 miles (6,800 km) long and uses the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail that was developed by the Adventure Cycling Association for the Bikecentennial event in 1976. [ 1 ]
The Trans Am Bike Race is similar to RAAM in that it is a non-stop bicycle race across the US, but it covers an even longer distance and riders are self-supported, meaning that all support from other racers, friends, family, or organizers is forbidden. Supplies and services must be obtained from commercial sources and no support vehicles are ...
The Trans Am Bike Race started in 2014 is more similar because it is primarily on paved roads, but it uses the TransAmerica Trail as a fixed route from the Pacific coast in Oregon, USA, to the Atlantic Coast in Virginia. Following the success of these events, many others were launched in subsequent years.
In 2017, Carlsson designed the Indian Pacific Wheel Race, a 5,500 kilometer road race across the continent of Australia. In the course of the first race, Mike Hall was killed by a motorist. [5] Carlsson was a competitor in the event, but had to withdraw due to injury. [6] Due to the tragic death of Hall, the event was cancelled in progress.
The Trans Am SpeedTour at Road America will feature an impressive lineup of iconic American cars — Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers and Corvettes — thundering around the track in 100-mile races ...
The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail began as the route for Bikecentennial, a mass bicycle tour across the country to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976. The route was developed and mapped in the years preceding the event by volunteers and staff members of the organization Bikecentennial, which changed its name to Adventure Cycling Association in 1993.
“Austin is cycling’s equivalent of Lia Thomas,” Inga Thompson, an American Olympian and national road race champion, told The Telegraph on Monday, referring to the transgender swimmer who ...
Trans Am (band), an American post-rock band Trans Am, their 1996 debut album, or the title song "Trans Am" (song), a 2015 song by Thompson Square; Trans-Am Series, an American automobile racing series; Trans Am Bike Race, an annual cycling race across the United States; Tranz Am, a 1983 video game "Trans Am", a song by Neil Young from the album ...