Iron Butt Rally

[jwhughes3]

That really hurts...I hope he gets it returned and can claim the points...but will likely be too late.

Keep it up Scott!

John

[motoman]

That really hurts...I hope he gets it returned and can claim the points...but will likely be too late.

Keep it up Scott!

John

Looks like a couple ST riders are most likely to nail this one............as they've previously done in the past.

[Phoenix Rider]

Wayne,

Go back to post #1. The link is there.

Got it. Thanks Marty. I didn't dive in deep enough to find the standings.

Wayne

[Lunatic]

Not sure but I think it does take you through about all 48 if not all of them. They give you a route each day, and then a bonus destination that will take you off of that route. I was just trying to give some perspective to the 11,000 miles or even 1,000 miles every day.

Yes, they do rank you by points. In fact, just to be considered a finisher of the event, you have to hit a minimum of the bonus destinations. You won't score enough points to finish if you do not hit some of the bonus spots.

It sounds like a tough event to make it through, you have to really want to have that title. A lot more than I want it. No way in Hades I could do it on one of them zip-splat, crotch rocket bikes.

There is no route. Only a window and a location where the next checkpoint is located. Early to the checkpoint means you probably left points in the field. Late at the checkpoint means your event is over. Each bonus location has a different points value. It is NOT about who goes to the most locations,but is about who gets the highest score. SO, with 80 or so bonus locations at each leg, and varying points values at each bonus location, and various times of day or night when the bonus location is even open, it's pretty rare for any two riders to end up on the same planned route. Not to mention execution. All the planning in the world goes out the window as conditions change.

[madmax-im]

Looks like a couple ST riders are most likely to nail this one............as they've previously done in the past.

nope at least 3 are out... and one was the leader...

[natemoen]

How do you actually get the people and the standings?

[motoman]

nope at least 3 are out... and one was the leader...

....and looks like one of them crashed near Demming.N.M. Apparently not seriously injured but ST is totaled. He is one who's done this IBA several times, and apparently is not new to crashing in the past.

[MaximPhil]

How do you actually get the people and the standings?

Here you go Nate ( From post #1)
http://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2013.cfm
Read the reports they are very entertaining and informative too.
Phil

[natemoen]

Here you go Nate ( From post #1)
http://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2013.cfm
Read the reports they are very entertaining and informative too.
Phil

I see that and have read them, but some have made it sound like there is a rank list that they post that actually shows where people stand.

[DGXSER]

It looks like they only post the standings on the days they have a check-in. Which it seems the last one was on day 8, and the next will be the finally tomorrow morning between 8 and 10.

I will be impressed if he simply finishes it. I may have already said this, but I think it is a big travel week when I go 1000 miles a week. They are doing it every day, on a bike. yeah...iron butt applies.

[dpotter58]

I see Scott pulled my move and drove away without his oil plug... Damnit man...

[Pain]

According to the lastest update, he reached the last checkpoint 3 minutes into the penalty window. We all still have to wait to see if he has enough points to be ranked as a finisher.

Impressive either way.

[DGXSER]

He has my respect just for doing it and completing the trip. Amazing thing to travel all of those miles in that time frame.

[jetmechmarty]

There’s not finishing and then there’s not finishing the Scott Thornton way. He’s
the rider who lost his camera during the second leg and with it all the bonus
points he’d accumulated for two and one-half days. The only points he did
receive on the second section were for keeping a Spot tracker, resting, and a
call-in. Was it possible that he could achieve sufficient points on just the 1st and
3rd legs of the rally to total 60,000? No. He came in 237 points short. That kind of
disappointment doesn’t even have a name. If it did, it would be called Iron Butt.

He still has my respect. It's not a feat I would be likely to attempt.

[GLoweVA]

I wonder if you're allowed to use your camera phone.
Mine has the ability to upload pics to the web/photbucket as I take them.
If this were possible, then those photos that he took, but lost the camera, would still be available, albeit online vice a memory card.