The Rally starts Monday in Pittsburgh, PA
The Rally's checkpoint schedule is as follows:
This year the Start, Checkpoint 1 and Finish are at the same location in
Cranberry Township, just north of Pittsburgh.
START INFORMATION
Monday, July 1, 10am
Pittsburgh Marriott North at Cranberry Woods
100 Cranberry Woods Drive
Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania 16066 USA
CHECKPOINT 1 INFORMATION
July 4, 8pm - 10pm
Penalty points accrue at 8:00:01pm
Scoring opens at 5pm
Leg 2 Bonuses distributed at 6am, July 5
CHECKPOINT 2 INFORMATION
Sunday July 7, 8pm - 10pm
Sacramento area, CA
Scoring opens at 5pm
Leg 2 Bonuses distributed at 6am July 8
Sacramento Marriott Rancho Cordova
11211 Point East Drive
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742
FINISH INFORMATION
Finish Friday, July 12, 10 am
Penalty points accrue at 8:00:01am
Scoring opens at 5am
Pittsburgh Marriott North at Cranberry Woods
100 Cranberry Woods Drive
Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania 16066 USA
For those of you who have followed the Rally in the past, you will be pleased to know that the Rally Scribe of all Rally Scribes has returned, Bob Higdon is the Spiritual, Moral and Ecclesiastical Leader of the Iron Butt Association has returned to write the daily repot. Bob rode around the world and wrote about it here
http://www.ironbutt.org/higdon/96hig02.html
Bob also wrote a fantastic series on attending MMI
Robert Higdon's Making a Mechanic Series
The following series of articles details Iron Butt Journalist Bob "do I hit the screw with a hammer to make it go in"
Higdon's training at American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach, Florida. Before AMI, Bob had never so much as changed the oil in his motorcycle.
http://www.ironbutt.org/higdon/higami0.html
So back to the IBR.
http://ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2013.cfm
I will try and post up the daily report as soon as it comes up on the forum.
THis is the first time in 10 years I won't be at the start finish and all the checkpoints. A few members of this forum have participated in and finished the IBR. I am flying in for the finish, no I am not riding all the way to Pittsburgh and back, I have already ridden A -P over 30 times
The FJR Forum often has the best commentary on the Rally
http://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/153132-2013-iron-butt-rally-the-inside-view/
The Rally's checkpoint schedule is as follows:
This year the Start, Checkpoint 1 and Finish are at the same location in
Cranberry Township, just north of Pittsburgh.
START INFORMATION
Monday, July 1, 10am
Pittsburgh Marriott North at Cranberry Woods
100 Cranberry Woods Drive
Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania 16066 USA
CHECKPOINT 1 INFORMATION
July 4, 8pm - 10pm
Penalty points accrue at 8:00:01pm
Scoring opens at 5pm
Leg 2 Bonuses distributed at 6am, July 5
CHECKPOINT 2 INFORMATION
Sunday July 7, 8pm - 10pm
Sacramento area, CA
Scoring opens at 5pm
Leg 2 Bonuses distributed at 6am July 8
Sacramento Marriott Rancho Cordova
11211 Point East Drive
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742
FINISH INFORMATION
Finish Friday, July 12, 10 am
Penalty points accrue at 8:00:01am
Scoring opens at 5am
Pittsburgh Marriott North at Cranberry Woods
100 Cranberry Woods Drive
Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania 16066 USA
For those of you who have followed the Rally in the past, you will be pleased to know that the Rally Scribe of all Rally Scribes has returned, Bob Higdon is the Spiritual, Moral and Ecclesiastical Leader of the Iron Butt Association has returned to write the daily repot. Bob rode around the world and wrote about it here
http://www.ironbutt.org/higdon/96hig02.html
Bob also wrote a fantastic series on attending MMI
Robert Higdon's Making a Mechanic Series
The following series of articles details Iron Butt Journalist Bob "do I hit the screw with a hammer to make it go in"
Higdon's training at American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach, Florida. Before AMI, Bob had never so much as changed the oil in his motorcycle.
http://www.ironbutt.org/higdon/higami0.html
So back to the IBR.
http://ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2013.cfm
I will try and post up the daily report as soon as it comes up on the forum.
THis is the first time in 10 years I won't be at the start finish and all the checkpoints. A few members of this forum have participated in and finished the IBR. I am flying in for the finish, no I am not riding all the way to Pittsburgh and back, I have already ridden A -P over 30 times
The FJR Forum often has the best commentary on the Rally
http://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/153132-2013-iron-butt-rally-the-inside-view/