Ulrich Bartholmoes, 2023 Tour Divide winner

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In 2023, just four years after competing in his first bikepacking race, Ulrich Bartholmoes won the biggest race of them all, the Tour Divide. The 2,745-mile route is always at the mercy of the elements, but Ulrich and his two fellow race leaders found themselves in a particularly strange (and scary) predicament when cold temperatures and constant rain left more than a hundred miles of the route unrideable. In a stroke of luck, the three racers happened upon a porta potty in the Great Divide w...

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0:00.0	All the preparation I do beforehand and all this fancy looking at data that will not help you out there in the field.
0:10.6	I never expected like on Tour Divide in this great divide basin and this peanut butter mud.
0:18.4	We did in progress of one mile per hour.
0:21.8	And there is no support vehicle or anything out there.
0:24.7	Nobody is helping you.
0:26.3	And then, well, a potter potty shows up and you're the luckiest person on the planet
0:31.3	that you find a place to hide actually with two other men.
0:35.8	So three full grown men sitting in a potter potty for 12 hours.
0:42.3	That's nothing you prepare for.
0:44.3	You need to get the capability to adapt to it, let's say it like this.
0:52.3	It's showtime everybody! Showtime!
0:55.0	You've been living in a dream world, Neal.
0:59.0	This is the world as it exists today.
1:04.0	Life moves pretty fast.
1:08.0	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
1:10.0	You could miss it.
1:13.6	Listen, we're talking about practice.
1:16.6	Repeat on the dude's room. Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:19.6	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:23.6	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:32.4	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:35.0	Hello everyone.
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