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I just went and looked at the stats from 2007. In my memory I thought there were like 8 FD failures. But there were only 3, with 39 shaft dive BMWs in the field that is only 7.7%. I was thinking that the IBR failures would be higher than this, I agree that it is possible that the general public...

I did not know this! That would be a reasonable benefit. man do I hate the fuel log! Course I have an Iphone app that allows me to collect all the data.

Long haul truck engines measure oil capacity in gallons (like 11+ gallons on a 12L engine) and have oil coolers. Of course they change their oil every 20K miles or so.

There is not a scoring benefit or penalty. However without a fuel cell you have to stop more often, generating more paperwork for the fuel log, making scoring mistakes more likely. I doubt anyone in the top 50% is without a fuel cell.

I mean as an aftermarket bolt on. I am sure that BMW could figure out a good way to cool it.

Any idea if we will see the bonus listing for Leg 2 anytime soon?

I would disagree with you on this. Most motorcycle engine oil systems are not designed to be run 7x24x11. Oil breaks down with heat. I would hazard a guess that the oil in these bikes would provide less lubricant after 3000 miles (and only 3 days) than the oil in a bike that only sees 200 miles...

Dan, man I hope your wrong! Based on my causal observation folks riding bikes less than 10 years old that have their regular maintenance done don't have that many failures. I just did a Great Lakes Challenge (~2500 miles) with 30 other riders. The only mechanical issue was the guy on the 80's...

It was originally posted to the LDRiders mail list. I don't think the LDRiders website needs permission to post something posted to the mail list.

Is it just me or does this years rally seem designed to get more finishers? I didn't follow 07 as closely, but It seems that with the three leg format, people may get more rest, letting some of the more mortal riders finish. I'm not saying this is easy! I am in awe at anyone that has the guts to...

He probably did what I did and took the PDF and exported to txt and massaged. But he figured out how to get decimal degrees... and with that I have this: I would be happy to share the GDB if someone official sounding says its ok. As an IBA member I dont want to tick off the IBA!

There are two negative bonuses. These are the don't be stupid read the damn bonus sheet bonuses.

Crime against humanity.

Nope, gonna whip up a php script to parse the txt file export and create a gpx file. I would share but I'm sure that would violate copyright :rolleyes: PS Whats paper?

Any chance a GPX file will be released? I see that there are the lat/lon coordinates in the file, but it would be great if they released a GPX. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to play IBA route games to see what we could do.