They had plenty when I rolled through which was first third of all riders I’d say (waffle).
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NVM saw your later notes above.
I’m planning to do this years wafer on my e-bike. I live on the route, so I can ride the course any day of the week, but I have a thing for overpaying to do things I can normally do solo. Plus beer and waffles.
I did the route from start to Citricado and Valley on my way home from the office today. I have schwalbe marathon e-plus tires (2”) and I get a lot of wishy-washy handling in the looser patches. I’ll do the rest of the wafer route on Saturday morning.
Should be lots of fun. I’ll be the only “racer” to gain weight on Sunday.
Lemontwistenberg facing North, taken today. Rest of the trails around Lake Hodges are mostly decent. Some areas are rougher, others seem cleaner with less loose over hard - it’s like the mud dried into asphalt.
Is that the trail itself or road leading up to it???
This is the concrete road that drops down from Del Dios. The other low point before the trail isnt too bad.
Ah thanks I figured! I’m guessing they’ll take an alternate entrance to LT then. Really antsy to see the route, questioning my choice to go to 40mm Terraspeeds after hearing it’s well packed. I’ve a brand new 35mm set that I’ll bring with me, contemplating mounting those before I fly instead.
I just mounted 40mm terraspeeds, I personally wouldn’t want to go narrower with all the exposed rock. There’s still loose areas and sand for sure too. The east portion around Hodges between the parking lot and the 15 had its typical stretches of sand.
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Interesting! They do offer more sidewall protection, I like the sound of that.
30% more. It’s why I went with 40’s.
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In the last two scouts they skipped it all together. I’m not sure there’s an alt route. I road through the crossing both times. Water was about 18-24” deep.
Oh I see, I wasn’t paying attention at all to the scouts! I saw they went up to the turn around point and assumed they did LT. It’ll be an interesting route for sure.
Course and bijbel are up:
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Sitting here from the comfort of my living room I’m going to type words I know I’ll live to regret next week but, honestly that doesn’t look too bad
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It looks a bit easier than last year because they dropped the nasty dirt descent and first dirt sector. They did however add a bit of new dirt. It’ll be interesting to see, I’m questioning going to 40s, but bike’s packed and i won’t back down now!
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Yup. I would have done 32-35!s on that course but is what it is. Can’t believe they cut lemontwist out of the wafer
Thanks for posting. I might actually be overbiked for once 
I’ll stick with my choice of 40s … the big difference this year is that they swapped Pamo for dirt elsewhere, which was the gnarliest, and dropped Twistenweg at the start. I don’t think that makes enough of a difference for me not to want more tire than last year as there were other parts that definitely cost me time while running 33mm slicks. With that said, I’m bringing my 35s as well and will know after Friday whether I need a swap or not!
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FYI, there seems to be no mention of Endurance Tap maple gels in the race bijble, only some solids and endurance mix. I’ll be bringing enough for the whole race.