Memories of RTM06

[Clint]

I dug out my old SLR today and these videos were still on the CD card from 2015.
This is from the halcyon days of FarRiders before Ride To Meet rallies were stopped by Paul due to his insurance concerns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l0szCoJmUs shows the participants sweating over hot computers deciding on routes and wondering how many points they can get during the 24 hours available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BCmbJ4Ru6A shows the riders departing with me doing my impersonation of Dale "Warchild" Wilson sending off IBR participants.

Those were the days.

[OX-34]

Great to see you've captured those memories Clint

[Walshy]

Yeah, Crappy's ZRX was a legendary bike.

[Kimmie]

OMG, I remember that day. It was as hot as, my plan wasn't exactly complete or the best and I got a flat picking up a point.

Got to Hillfield or Highfield somewhere near Toowooomba, called Karl and Diesel with Streak coming to the rescue of a bed for the night and a hot very late dinner...I was done.

Was glad to get back to base even though I didn't qualify.

Great memories and experience.

Thanks for sharing those hidden/kept gems

xx

[Biggles]

Wow!  Many thanks for finding that and posting it.  I was among the least favoured starters that day, and came in the most unlikely winner!  I had the home ground advantage and wasted none of it.  I too, had a puncture (with a slow leak) and actually rode the bike home to fix it!  What a day!
I'm almost inspired to create a Rally.  I definitely have enough Bonus Locations, because Ghostie asked us to compile and submit them.  I have well over 200 with all their data, mostly in Queensland, of course.  Feel like building another one, Clint?  Eight years down the track I pose even less of a threat to the big dogs, but would enjoy having a go.

[Clint]

.....Ghostie asked us to compile and submit them......

That's not how my memory serves.  I was the one encouraging people to submit bonus locations as I had written the program for them to be collected and converted into a rally book.  Mr Vaupel was against our rallies and after several arguments insisted that I cease planning any more.
But then, my memory is fallible.

And sorry but no, I won't be building any in the future, my life is no longer oriented to LD riding.  But I do enjoy the memories.

Cheers

[Biggles]

That's not how my memory serves.  I was the one encouraging people to submit bonus locations as I had written the program for them to be collected and converted into a rally book.  Mr Vaupel was against our rallies and after several arguments insisted that I cease planning any more.
But then, my memory is fallible.

And sorry but no, I won't be building any in the future, my life is no longer oriented to LD riding.  But I do enjoy the memories.

Cheers

I wrote only as an outsider looking in, and your memory is perfect.  I do recall your name being associated with the collecting of the bonuses, having communicated with you on the subject.  I also recall ghostie proposing a Rally at one point (obviously before he went against them) and pulling the pin because of a lack of interested respondents.
I recall I submitted 200 to the developing database, and have well over 300 now.
Another memory I have of a Rally that I didn't participate in, but followed online.  It involved the usual collecting of bonuses, but this time they were allocated a dollar value.  Halfway through, ghostie declared all the bonuses were now negative in value, and the winner would be the rider closest to zero in money at the end.  M&M won, and showed themselves apparently naked, having "lost all".

[Gateman]

The object of that ralley Biggles was titled Going For Broke.
From the get go it was intended to gain value and loose value back as far negative into the the red so to speak then finish as close to $0 dollars.

Most took off shooting location after location gathering up massive value completely overlooking the design brief.. Some from memory had into the thousands of dollars. Dollars became deducted by finding the balance between excesive distance/spending power and hitting the rest bonus, Kimmies Anzac Buscuits bonus at Dunedoo and just wakinf up to the fact lest was more.
TK and I finished third having achieved earning and loosing and earning our way back to -3 cents short of $0 second place got to $0 but not negative and those M&Ms Oh too much information but hell it was funny.
I remember throwing out a reuse to one team that if they got "The Swing Bridge" at Wellington all their points$ would be reverted to Zero. To my dismay they made all to turn back to find this bridge even thought they would still need to be in Gunnedah by 16:30 hrs I just got them stopped in time but gee they thought even then I was spinning a web.
It was great fun too.
Thanks Clint for posting these images.

[Nev..]

The object of that ralley Biggles was titled Going For Broke.
From the get go it was intended to gain value and loose value back as far negative into the the red so to speak then finish as close to $0 dollars.

Most of the FR Rallies I rode 1800ish km to get to the finish, but that rally had penalties for riding more than 1200km.  In typical PV style, the wording of the rally scoring was ambiguous and confusing. I went for the ride.  I would not be surprised if I finished last. 
As a side note, a couple of weeks ago I stayed another night in Gunnedah, on a slow ride to Brisbane.