FJRForum Official 2019 Iron Butt Rally Tracking/Analysis Thread
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El Toro Joe
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Congrats to Wendy...way to represent the FJR community.
kk3an
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I predict Wendy will also be the 1st female **DOUBLE** IBR winner....on her Yamaha.
Congratulations Wendy!
Congratulations Wendy!
eddiememphis
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Dylan Spink 1983 Honda- 10th place. Wow.
Uncle Hud
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Clarifications below, all questions snipped ...
Just reporting what I could find, and I still stand behind Yamaha's reputation for reliability under the most demanding circumstances.
As I've posted elsewhere, when you wake up five states away from home and you absolutely have to get back tonight, an FJR will get you there.
No, just pulled the top five, which was enough to get to BMW. We pile on Beemers far quicker than we pile on Harleys, as the IBR reporters have, and I was attempting to get something factual as a basis for hammering them. For the record, the H-D Finish Percent is 69.8%, only slightly below BMW. And ANYONE who rides ANY motorbike more than 500 miles from home gets my respect.
Different type of scoring, and I posted that rule, along with its very significant footnote, a page or two ago. This post refers to the Finish Percent for manufacturers. The question is this: If a rider starts on a BMW, but finishes on a Yamaha FJR, does Yamaha get credit as a "finisher" in the manufacturer calculations? (See the link in my original post.) Don't think it really matters; the point was that BMW is #5 in Finish Percent, and yet remains the overwhelming bike of choice for the past few IBRs. Oh yeah, and Yamaha is #1 in Finish Percent -- FJRs and Super Tens ... any other Yammies been in an IBR?
All true. There are many reasons why riders don't finish, including tire failure, illness, fatigue, and missing a checkpoint window. To do a more accurate analysis requires data that isn't available, and maybe not tracked by the IBA at all. (Do they track the reason for a DNF?) Anecdotal evidence from the past three IBRs shows an unfortunate pattern of BMW mechanical failures -- to me, anyway.
Just reporting what I could find, and I still stand behind Yamaha's reputation for reliability under the most demanding circumstances.
As I've posted elsewhere, when you wake up five states away from home and you absolutely have to get back tonight, an FJR will get you there.
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Uncle Hud
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Congrats to RFlagg42, earthrooster, slatonp4, Kendoo, and TripperMike, all FJRForum members! (And apologies to those I left out ... it's hard for me to correlate real names to screen names.)
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Congratulations Wendy! Go Wendy! Go FJR!
Gen1 FJRs are the best, the 05 FJR even better, and Wendy has proven she is the best of us all!
PS- To those BMW kool-aid drinkers (one specifically) nobody remembers second place, or fourth, or fifth, or seventh. Nobody!! Put that in your final drive and smoke it!!
Gen1 FJRs are the best, the 05 FJR even better, and Wendy has proven she is the best of us all!
PS- To those BMW kool-aid drinkers (one specifically) nobody remembers second place, or fourth, or fifth, or seventh. Nobody!! Put that in your final drive and smoke it!!
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Way to go Wendy!
You FJR folks are great folks. Thanks for letting me hang out again for the rally. I hope y'all are still here in 2021.
I shall follow the links to a spotwalla donation.
Ride safe and take care, KHILL
You FJR folks are great folks. Thanks for letting me hang out again for the rally. I hope y'all are still here in 2021.
I shall follow the links to a spotwalla donation.
Ride safe and take care, KHILL
Goodman4
Pressing on
Congratulations to Wendy and all the riders! What a fun week watching the show!
Congrats to Wendy. Maybe somebody can get her to post a few word here about her strategy/planning. (But maybe not if she is going to run again in 2021).
Poor BMW folks. You are getting picked on. A thought. The stats don't tell us anything about the age, maintenance, mileage or condition of the malfunctioning bikes.
Poor BMW folks. You are getting picked on. A thought. The stats don't tell us anything about the age, maintenance, mileage or condition of the malfunctioning bikes.
escapefjrtist
Searching for Dry Roads
Congrats Wendy, simply awesome!
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neanderthaler
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How many IBRs has Wendy completed on that bike? At least 2?
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08FJR4ME
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I may be wrong but I think it's 3.
Freekin rock star she is.
Congratulations Wendy,
Dave
Freekin rock star she is.
Congratulations Wendy,
Dave
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Warren
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I would say that would count toward BMW but the swapped-to bike wouldn't add or subtract from your stats. It would be a stat of those that started and failed vs started and finished
age, mileage, condition should all be a wash. maintenance (which i see as Rider error) shouldn't reflect on the bike. anyone who has invested thousands of dollars and months of prep time should show up at the start with a bike (of any brand) in the best shape it can possibly be. so, in the end, all those issues fall by the wayside and are discarded.
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PJ4863
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Speaking of Kendoo... he is probably in need of a rear subframe, and the front stay, quite possibly some plastic on the right side.
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