2010 IBR5000

[smitty141]

Here's the face of a happy top 10 finisher!!!!

Smitty

 

[airboss]

If that's the look of a happy finisher I don't wanna see his distressed look.

OH, OK, picture # 2 is much better.

Congratulations Mike, you know who I'll be pulling for in 2011. :clapping:

Team Strange riders did well too, and that seems appropriate.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Congrats Mike!

 

[Bungie]

Congrats to Mike and to Peter. Especially considering what he went through just getting there.

 

[brick1]

Hey guys,

Back safely. It was a lonely ride home without my buddy Cameron tagging along.

I'll be getting a ride report together in the near future.

Had a great time. We hit some amazing roads. Here's an example or two of the fun:

Chief Joseph Highway in WYOMING.

Bob's Java Hut, Minneapolis, MN. How could these people be so HAPPY at 6:00 AM

 

[SkooterG]

Much CONGRATS to all the IB5K riders!

I had a great time following along with the reports, yet it was bittersweet as I would rather be out there riding too than rooting from the sidelines.

Great job Mike on your Top 10!

Peter - way to go after your pre-rally misfortune.

And well done to all the other riders - Doug, Da Juice, and Perry and all the other guys I got to meet out in Denver.

Bummer for stryg8r (Derek) and hitting that moose in Yellowstone. Hope you are ok for the most part and a new color brings you better luck!

So, now what I really want to know...............

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?

Did the IB5K wipe your *** out? Or just fan the fire? Are the kitchen passes all used up?

Enquiring minds want to know!

 

[DaJuice]

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?

Well.... after loosing my wallet on day 1 of leg 2 in Nebraska and then getting stuck in rush hour traffic in Baton Rouge and taking over 2 hours to get through that city in the blistering heat with the fans blowing even more heat on me I was in F this $#!T mode when I got a call from a good friend to see how I was doing. I vented hard and told him there was no way I was going to do the IBR. Then I got to Eddies grave in Atlanta about 3:30 AM. That bonus was a daylight only bonus, so I parked my bike next to his monument and laid down in the grass for a nap. I had some time to reflect. I had spent the last 2 days riding the interstate (except east Texas and Oklahoma where it seems the interstate system concept was not applied, but more on that in a ride report) which I knew I'd be on a lot of, but not non-stop for 2 days. But now that I am here, with 170 miles to the finish laying next to Eddie I got to look back at the good... Riding Beartooth Pass, Riding Through the Rockies, seeing a host of strangers meet me at Bobs Java Hut, it changed my mind back to I want to do it.

So all that and I'm still going to say, I don't know yet. I want to, but I need to figure out if I can.

 

[stryg8r]

So all that and I'm still going to say, I don't know yet. I want to, but I need to figure out if I can.

You've got it backwards. You CAN do it, you just need to figure out if you really want to.

 

[airboss]

DaJuice, I remember you and Cruizin talking about rallys at CFO. Yeah it's something you need to do. Feed the addiction. Hope you can pull it off.

 

[karstenp]

So, now what I really want to know...............

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?

Did the IB5K wipe your *** out? Or just fan the fire? Are the kitchen passes all used up?

Enquiring minds want to know!

I remember riding down the Beartooth pass at 1:30 in the morning, in rain, and in low 40s..... the fun factor was in the negative territory. I remember riding through Arizona in temps of 109 for 4-5hrs and stuck in stop and go traffic in Houston in temps of 102 with my feet and legs burning up from the heat being thrown off the engine. I remember riding all night through Western Texas on I10 which looked like a war zone with deer parts all over the freeway and forest rates attempting to commit Hari Kari using my bike as a sword..... I remember riding through twisty back roads in Georgia in the middle of the night through fog so thick the visibility was only a few feet.... I remember the excruciating shoulder pain on day 4 (from a previous accident). If these were my only memories, I would never ride another rally again....

However, I remember the dawn in Wyoming with the rising sun catching the colours of the hills, I remember the views of the mountains in Southern Yellowstone, I remember the red rocks around Moab, Utah and the bike pin stripping in Eddie`s memory. I remember the 1 hour spent in an air conditioned club house at a nudist resort, with all the food you could eat. I remember, sitting at a gas station in the middle of Alabama in the middle of the night (I needed to run non stop that night to get to Atlanta)..... dead tired and a little down. Out of the darkness, came a fellow rally rider and asked me how I was doing...... his words of encouragement were what I needed to get me back into the saddle. I remember the feeling of elation upon reaching the finish.... I remember the personal satisfaction of achieving my personal goals set before the rally. I remember the feeling of camaraderie among fellow rally riders...

Am I going to the Show next Summer...... Absolutely!

Perry

 

[101stpathfinder]

So, now what I really want to know...............

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?

Did the IB5K wipe your *** out? Or just fan the fire? Are the kitchen passes all used up?

Enquiring minds want to know!

I remember riding down the Beartooth pass at 1:30 in the morning, in rain, and in low 40s..... the fun factor was in the negative territory. I remember riding through Arizona in temps of 109 for 4-5hrs and stuck in stop and go traffic in Houston in temps of 102 with my feet and legs burning up from the heat being thrown off the engine. I remember riding all night through Western Texas on I10 which looked like a war zone with deer parts all over the freeway and forest rates attempting to commit Hari Kari using my bike as a sword..... I remember riding through twisty back roads in Georgia in the middle of the night through fog so thick the visibility was only a few feet.... I remember the excruciating shoulder pain on day 4 (from a previous accident). If these were my only memories, I would never ride another rally again....

However, I remember the dawn in Wyoming with the rising sun catching the colours of the hills, I remember the views of the mountains in Southern Yellowstone, I remember the red rocks around Moab, Utah and the bike pin stripping in Eddie`s memory. I remember the 1 hour spent in an air conditioned club house at a nudist resort, with all the food you could eat. I remember, sitting at a gas station in the middle of Alabama in the middle of the night (I needed to run non stop that night to get to Atlanta)..... dead tired and a little down. Out of the darkness, came a fellow rally rider and asked me how I was doing...... his words of encouragement were what I needed to get me back into the saddle. I remember the feeling of elation upon reaching the finish.... I remember the personal satisfaction of achieving my personal goals set before the rally. I remember the feeling of camaraderie among fellow rally riders...

Am I going to the Show next Summer...... Absolutely!

Perry

You guys EARNED it... why deny yourselves :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

 

[brick1]

My application is officially in.

Bring on those damn daylight only bonuses!

Peter

 

[SkooterG]

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?

Well.... after loosing my wallet on day 1 of leg 2 in Nebraska and then getting stuck in rush hour traffic in Baton Rouge and taking over 2 hours to get through that city in the blistering heat with the fans blowing even more heat on me I was in F this $#!T mode when I got a call from a good friend to see how I was doing. I vented hard and told him there was no way I was going to do the IBR.

Ahhhhh yes, those rally lows. You can read about them. Experienced rally riders can tell you about them. But until you experience for yourself the utter depravity of emotional and physical exhaustion in trying circumstances of a multi-day rally do you then finally find out how rock bottom you can be. I know previous to the '07 IBR I had no idea.

Good stuff!

 

[Ignacio]

Of all you finishers............ Who's going to The Show next summer?
Did the IB5K wipe your *** out? Or just fan the fire? Are the kitchen passes all used up?

I think the process was particularly hard on the IB5000 riders in one important respect.

Get done with the hard labor of finishing status...then in less than two weeks you have to decide whether to run 11 days the following June.

To me that seems like having a baby and as you're being wheeled out of the maternity ward the hospital staff puts a clipboard in front of you to declare if you're having another child in the next 11 months. If you sign that you do...they wheel you and your hubby to a private room down the hall and make you get started that afternoon!

Then when you come out of that room all sweaty and a smile on your face....you've got a $1850 bill due in less than a month.

That's HARD CORE! Anybody who does all that has my admiration for dealing with adversity. :clapping:

 

[01VFR]

To me that seems like having a baby and as you're being wheeled out of the maternity ward the hospital staff puts a clipboard in front of you to declare if you're having another child in the next 11 months. If you sign that you do...they wheel you and your hubby to a private room down the hall and make you get started that afternoon!
Then when you come out of that room all sweaty and a smile on your face....you've got a $1850 bill due in less than a month.

I don't even have my credit card stmt from all the farkle-must-haves before the IB5K, or the ride/gas/hotels to/from and during the IB5K. Just now I am working on the insurance piece of my little mishap during day 2. But it was well worth it!

No entry from me until I get those items ironed out...hopefully yet this week.

Corey

 

[mehaffydr]

Well I have had a few days for recovery and contemplation. This past week was the Best riding adverture/torture I have experienced. I would like to thanks the IBA Staff and all the people that it takes to make this work. This is the first rally I have done of this magnatude and it really is completlly different planning for multi days considering sleep and eat times. Things that can just be avoided in a 24 hr rally.

I am completly satisfied with the route I chose and planned. But am somewhat disgusted in Myself for a couple of really ******* ameture mistakes that cost me dearly.

First somehow even after being double checked and verified My camera resolution was on 5 MP instead of the required 640 x 480. This was a 250 point deduction on the first leg.

The killer was when I arrived at Bonus location don't remember the name but it was a monument in Wyoming just north of bear tooth pass. There was a Granite statue/Monument and nxt to it there was a wooden sign. The bonus instructions said take a picture of the sign and My ******* took a picture of the Monument. 500+ points LOST :angry: So the real pisser hear is I rode a good route that would have put me in 1st at the end of the first leg but F***ed it up and am in 19th place instead.

So no time to cry just got alot of makeup to do. I fixed the camera and double checked each bonus requirement on leg 2 and lost no points. :yahoo: Managed to finish in the Top Ten

So for the Good times with friends before and after the rally. The Rally itself with all it has to offer traveling cross country ( a couple of times) The incredible feeling you get as you are approching the Finish from about two miles out after 5400+ miles and the finish when you hear Warchild saying stop the Bike Put Down the Kickstand and Get inside and STOP the Clock You realize what you have just accomplished.

DAM RIGHT IM IN FOR 2011 application submitted 08/25/10

All I need is oil change and some new rubber.

Here is a picture of the route that I rode.

 

[brick1]

I don't even have my credit card stmt from all the farkle-must-haves before the IB5K, or the ride/gas/hotels to/from and during the IB5K. Just now I am working on the insurance piece of my little mishap during day 2. But it was well worth it!
No entry from me until I get those items ironed out...hopefully yet this week.

Corey

A few of us are having the insurance meeting this week!

 

[brick1]

The killer was when I arrived at Bonus location don't remember the name but it was a monument in Wyoming just north of bear tooth pass. There was a Granite statue/Monument and nxt to it there was a wooden sign. The bonus instructions said take a picture of the sign and My ******* took a picture of the Monument. 500+ points LOST :angry: So the real pisser hear is I rode a good route that would have put me in 1st at the end of the first leg but F***ed it up and am in 19th place instead.

Think I was there same time you were at MNT. Wisely I took photos of both the sign and the monument just in case.

That was an ambitious route planned beyond that point. Congrats.

 

[rickcorwn]

Think I was there same time you were at MNT. Wisely I took photos of both the sign and the monument just in case.
That was an ambitious route planned beyond that point. Congrats.

Points are never deducted for too much info. On the recent MN2010 one bonus asked for the number of steps up to a lookout tower, my answer was 37 steps and 3 landings or 40 steps. Most RMs aren't trying to mess with you that much but you never know so CYA. Another trick is to include as much in the photo as possible like the one below. I understood the bonus to be that only the bust monument was needed but I included both just to be sure.

 

[01VFR]

My $100 paypal pmt was completed this morning. Now I need to find a suitable bike.

Corey