FJRForum Official 2017 Iron Butt Rally Tracking/Analysis Thread

[JohnF]

There a a couple of LARGE dinosaurs outside the Indianapolis Children's Museum in downtown Indy. Riders heading out of Chicago and on I-74 may be headed there.

JEF

Cincinnati, OH

 

[GearHeadGrrrl]

Bunch of riders in SD where a lot of towns have animal roadside "art". One's been showing at Madison, MN for over an hour- They've got a big fish there, hope the rider's doing OK. Looks like about 4 riders haven't even made it a hundred miles from the start- breakdowns already?

 

[Ignacio]

Looks like about 4 riders haven't even made it a hundred miles from the start- breakdowns already?

I already opined here. If they prove to be broken down--we'll hear in the daily report.

 

[BwanaDik]

What's going on with the folks north of Winnipeg? Must be a big bonus to risk delays at the border

 

[Hello Kitty]

Anyone else getting errors on spotwalla pages? Not loading Google maps correctly?

 

[cas42]

Hello Kitty, yes, I'm getting the same error messages.

 

[RossKean]

Anyone else getting errors on spotwalla pages? Not loading Google maps correctly?

Not just with respect to IBR. I suspect that Spotwalla is overwhelmed with traffic.

I am also having difficulty with personal Spotwalla pages...

 

[STL FJR]

It appears to be a Spotwalla issue. I'm getting the same error message on both of my iOS devices and my Windows PC.

 

[eddiememphis]

Mine works fine. Mac, chrome.

 

[danalipps]

Spotwalla comes up for about 3 seconds and then goes to an error. At least I'm not the only one getting it.

 

[Warren]

IE, Firefox and Chrome on a PC also crash

 

[SouthernCruizer]

also crashes on android phone...error in javascript console is showing

"you have exceeded your daily request quota for this API"

js?v=3&key=AIzaSyA4w4gr7cmAlrEiIc_hMGi5_b09cjBdKWk:35 You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. We recommend enabling billing to get a higher quota: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/usage

 

[Warren]

I think geocaching.com had the same issue with google earth and their app.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Spot is updating every 5 minutes for me...

 

[El Toro Joe]

...and we have a rider in Ohio

 

[eddiememphis]

Day 1 write up is here!

 

[Jaugie]

After watching the videos of the start, I am confuseded, I see a lot of aux lights flashing.. Is this intentional or something to do with cameras?

 

[Warren]

It is intentional, The are headlight modulators. Brings more attention to you as you travel down the highway. It also at times gets people to pull to the right thinking you are an emergency vehicle. You also have people yelling to you that your headlights are blinking, LOL

 

[DaJuice]

There are some modulating headlights but most of these don't actually flash when you see them in person. They are LED lights on a pulse width modulator (PWM). The PWM pulses the lights very fast and to our eyes it looks like they were dimmed. The longer the pulse the brighter they look. When a camera records video of them they appear to be flashing because the PWM and the frequency of the video sync up. If you've ever seen video taken of a CRT monitor or TV its the same idea.

I figured this out when I saw video of my bike once and figured I had something shorting out on me!

 

[Teehaml]

No love here...

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