A hard 24 hours soured by IBA
so anyone wanting to do 1000 miles 4 compass points of Ireland it is hard. I did it in June with 6 others and raised over£3500 for the NI children's hospice.
Now as for the Ironbutt association, I would wait until you can do this on a straight boring motorway with lots of service stations to get receipts just to make it really easy for the people who hold the office of yes your in or no your not.
I entered our effort and was told it didn't stand because
1 no start receipt (started at Burr point, no atm but a witness from the NICH signed us off at 430am after driving 30 miles to do so).
2 all the photographs and video taken could not be used because they were loaded onto social media and could be manipulated(have a look at the photos and video on facebook under HAIRBALL RALLY 2018 posted live as we went, and tagged in areas at certain times)
3 I should have contacted the IBA Ireland beforehand so they could point this out(why)
4 no end receipt( stopped in 24 hr Tesco filling station in klnocknagoney belfast and got him to witness our mileage, provide his details and tel number)
this was the email from the people who hold IBA sacred
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"The way an IBA SS1000 ride is verified is by the shortest route between receipts. I plotted your ride including ALL of the places on your log sheet, including the ones you don't have receipts for. The shortest distance between all of those points is 967 miles. So even if I did accept all of the places with no receipts (which I couldn't anyway) you don't have enough miles."
we did not go the 'shortest route' because we had to make miles up!!!! the witnesses can verify all out speedometers. no receipts available from burr point,malin,dunmore and mizen so how do you verify these and the routes we took to and from them.
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"I'm very sorry but I have to be candid, this ride failed at the planning stage. Whoever was responsible for the route and evidence gathering clearly did not read the rules or seek advice. Most multi-rider and charity rides usually choose a 'Circuit of Ireland' ride for their first ride, it's much shorter, easy to prove and simpler."
If i wanted to do a simple ride id have gone for a coffee morning in the local town, how do you do a shorter 1000 miles, sounds like another 'you should have informed us and we tell you type'
now I'm not one for having a rant...... much, but im doing this for charity hoping to add IBA as a bonus, Ive enough evidence to convicted me of anything throughout the route and I offered a full Garmin GPS track log of each and every turn, time and coordinate some 867 pages to print out but rules are rules apparently. IBA Ireland seem to be way too serious for my group to ever want to be associated with, we completed a hard 1000 miles, now started our own hard-ass association for anyone who wants to take yourself out of the dark ages of paper receipts and 35mm photographs which are easier to manipulate on Photoshop than any cyber tracking device,phone, GPS, oh and now my bike even knows where its been how many time Ive used the brakes gears etc etc.
so there you have it, rant over, it is a hard day out but worth the pain for the end beer great craic and most of all being able to help a special wee place the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice
micky
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