Got back from 2 weeks holiday on Sunday, and have finally reconciled Paypal with the start list generated automatically on the auk website (those folk who pay for other riders dont make it easy!)
Anyhow yesterday I emailed everybody im still expecting on the start line (91 of you) with an update and a zipped file with 16 tracks one for each leg of the event. These will help riders avoid confusion on the duplicated parts of the route and should also help folk home in on the info controls more precisely. Id recommend using these rather than the gpx track for the whole event as they are more up to date.
Ive updated the blurb on the AUK website (click on the routesheet link
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/18-402/) this morning.
A couple of folk have asked about the bag drop (chiefly concerned about my welfare I guess) over the availability of the van in Oban.
I can confirm that I'll be accompanied in Oban by Martin Foley and we will take turn about stamping cards and looking after luggage - so the van will be available to riders continuously from the point that the Oban control (456km) opens on Friday at 16.16 until the Oban control (738km) closes on Sunday at 03.21 (or when the last rider has left Oban if this is later, subject to an absolute drop dead time of 0700 when the van will leave for Edinburgh).
Thanks to Robert McCready who rode a recent 200 on the Kintyre peninsula we now know that the petrol station in Lochgilphead has a Tesco Extra that opens at 0600 [EDIT - with a coffee machine
] and that the Marine Cafe in Tarbert (just off route by about 20m) opens at 0700 which will be good for all but the quickest. They have offered to open early for us and once I know numbers better I will make contact.
I was up in the highlands on holiday and can confirm that the garage at Tyndrum does indeed have a tap outside.