Follow My Challenge
This is the tracking system that allows dot watchers, your family and friends, and other riders to follow your ride.
Link: https://2-continents.com/2025-tracking/
Please set the tracking interval on your tracker to 5 minutes.
(Trackers rented from the organizer are already programmed for 5 minutes tracking)
Tracker rented from the organizer
You get the tracker at the rider registration in Tangier or we send you the tracker by post mail in the middle of September. After the event you send us your tracker by postal service by end of November latest. Please don’t send it with signature. If we are not around and able to pick up a signature shipping in 14 days time, the post office will send it back to you. As soon we got the tracker back, we will refund you the deposit on your credit card.
Return address:
transbike
Andreas Buchs
Via dei Ronchi 20
6936 Cademario
Switzerland
Register your own tracker
The information needed for the tracking service, you enter in the rider information form. Your tracker has to be configured for 5 minute tracking interval.
Tracker is registered at the Spot Trace service
If your tracker is registered at the Spot Trace service, we need:
- Spot ESN
- Spot Auth. (you find behind the battery)
- Spot XML feed
Update the tracking interval:
Your tracker has to be configured for 5 minutes tracking intervals.
On the Spot Trace service you need to set for 5 minutes tracking. After you have to update your tracker with the updated software:
- SpotGen3:
https://www.findmespot.com/de-de/support/spot-gen3/firmware - SpotGen4:
https://www.findmespot.com/de-de/support/spot-gen4/firmware - Spot Trace:
https://www.findmespot.com/de-de/support/spot-trace/firmware
Update emergency contacts on the Spot Trace portal as follow:
Before registration on the 4th of October, you will need to update the emergency contact information on your SPOT Tracker page so that we are directly informed should you require emergency assistance. This is compulsory for you to be allowed to take part in the event. Once you have updated the emergency contacts as outlined below, please send an email to info@2-continents.com with a screenshot to verify that it has been done.
Instructions for updating emergency contacts (change additional information, name, country, and phone numbers as appropriate):
- Login to your account at https://login.findmespot.com/
- Click on View/Edit next to your device in “My Devices”
- Click on the blue “S.O.S.” link under Message Profiles
- In the box “Provide additional information if there is anything GEOS Search and Rescue would need to know about you (i.e. Medical conditions, allergies, prescriptions, etc.)”
- Under “Your Primary Emergency Contact” keep your existing contact
- Under “Your Secondary Emergency Contact” enter “Andy Buchs” for the Full Name
- Select “Morocco” as the Country
- Click on Save to update
- Click on the blue “Check-In” link under Message Profiles
- In the “Message to Send:” box, enter “I am OK, just stopping for the night or taking a longer break”
- Under “Send Messages To: ” enter “info@2-continents.com” you may also add your next of kin’s email address to also inform them that everything is OK.
- Click on Save to update
- Click on the blue “Help/SPOT S.O.V” link Message Profiles
- In the “Message to Send:” box enter “I am scratching from the ride”
- Under “Send Messages To:” enter “info@2-continents.com“
- Click on Save to update
Update the tracking interval:
Your tracker has to be configured for 5 minutes tracking intervals.
For the setup of the configuration you need this software:
https://www.findmespot.eu/gm/index.php?cid=225
(go to Spot Gen3 tab)
Mounting the tracker
It is important, that you mount your tracker with a free view to the sky. Don’t cover the tracker with anything.
Batteries for the tracker
It will not be easy to find Lithium batteries on the route. One set of batteries will work for about 10 days. With the rider information form, you have the ability to order Lithium batteries.
The tracker works also with Alkali batteries, but they are much faster empty.
Powering the tracker over USB
It’s possible to power the SpotGen3 tracker over USB. It will not charge the batteries but while USB power is connected, no battery power is used. Anyway, it’s not recommended to attach a USB cable to the tracker on your bike. One rider powered the tracker in the NorthCape-Tarifa over USB all time and the USB plug got loose and did not work anymore after a while. But it could be a workaround in an emergency situation when the batteries are empty.