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New – Kielder Adventure Riding Camps

New – Kielder Adventure Riding Camps

After the success of the Kielder 500, RallyMoto can now offer it’s members a true wilderness riding experience using a combination of five forests and over 600km of gravel tracks on both sides of the border.

The Kielder Adventure Riding Experience will be based at the Brown Rigg Lodges venue, near Bellingham. There will be a full 2 days riding, covering between 150km – 250km per day.

80% of the riding will be on off road surfaces, mainly hard based gravel tracks, so a dual sport or off road orientated tyre is recommended.

This is adventure riding like you have never experience before and you will need to be self sufficient whilst on the trails and ready for maintaining your bike and anything the weather throws at you, as we will ride whatever the weather.

Ideally, the weekends riding is suited to the “Big Bikes” so we will only accept bikes true adventure bikes to keep this an adventure bike only weekend.

To find out more and book your place – https://rallymoto.co.uk/kielder-adventure-riding-experience/

New – Kielder Adventure Riding Camps
New – Kielder Adventure Riding Camps
Challenging new roadbook event for road bikes

Challenging new roadbook event for road bikes

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The Tour of Clwyd is a new event and a new format for roadbook navigation as it is 100% road based and totally rideable on road tyres.

Although it says it is for road bikes it is true adventure bike country with narrow back lanes, steep inclines and descents, forest roads and little used back roads with the grass growing down the centre track.

The event starts in Trefnant, North Wales and takes riders through the back roads of this picturesque and mountainous area. The scenery is fantastic and some of the riding is challenging even though it is a 100% road course. The route will be totally navigated by roadbook in an Adventure Cannonball format so we are able to provide riders with the “hire” RallyMoto roadbook holders.

The route will be split into a Gold route (approx 200km), which is the longer of the two options and a Silver route being slightly shorter (170km).

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Salisbury Cannonball – Sold Out

Salisbury Cannonball – Sold Out

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The next Adventure Cannonball on the 16th June on Salisbury Plan is completely fully booked – by a factor of two!!

We will need to split the riders in two groups and in future we will have to limit the number of riders.

All the ride outs are now run under an ACU Permit making the events more formal, as usual we have our RallyMoto “hire” roadbook holders available for all riders.

The Adventure Cannonballs are proving to be so popular that all the ride outs in 2019 / 2020 have bookings and places reserved already.

Check out the calendar for the dates – https://rallymoto.co.uk/rally-calendar/

ATRC 2019 – Opening Round & Points

ATRC 2019 – Opening Round & Points

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The club rapidly filled the 120 maximum entry of bikes permitted for the off road event in the Brechfa Forest , with riders eager to contest one of the many popular events put on by the DDBC as part of the All Terrain Rally Challenge.

Points after Round 1 – here: https://rallymoto.co.uk/atrc-points-2018/

With a dry but windy start early on the Saturday during scrutineering the organising team thought the promised rain might have held off, but as the first bikes left the start line at Brynllewelin Farm on Llanllwni Mountain the rain begin to come down.

As the day went on the weather worsened, not that that affected many of the riders who were tackling a 38 mile lap, of on and off road and going to be ridden three times by most riders.

Sunday morning however saw bright sunshine greet the riders who had travelled from as far as Ireland and the Isle of Man to compete on the DDBC rally, with the organisers having bought the start time forward to 9am to give them an earlier finish to the day to make their way home.

The course seemed far easier many thought, but there was still plenty of deep standing water about  and wet weather riding gear was still needed.

The overall win would go to Jordan Corkill from the Isle of Man whilst the runner up was Lee Green from the Midlands, another Manx rider Robert Quayle would take 3rd overall.

ATRC 2019 – Opening Round & Points

Kielder 500 – Itinerary

Friday

4.00pm Camp site opens

6.00 – 8.00pm Signing on / Roadbook / Roadbook Holder / Tracker GPS

 

Saturday

7.00am Breakfast

7.00 – 9.00am Signing on / Roadbook / Roadbook Holder / Tracker GPS

9.30 – 9.45am Roadbook and Rider Briefing – all to attend

10.00am Start Kielder 500 Day 1 – 260km

6.00pm Finish Day 1 – Bar Opens

6.00 – 8.00pm Meal

8.30pm – 11.00pm Roadbook and Rider Briefing – Banter and Beer

 

Sunday

7.00am Breakfast

8.00am Start Kielder 500 – Day 2 – 250km

4.00pm Day 2 Finish

4.00 – 6.00pm Meal

6.00pm Results and Finishers Medals – Bar Opens

7.00pm – 11.00pm Event Finishes – Banter & Beer

 

Monday

7.00am Breakfast

10.30am Campsite Closes

The Adventure Spec Challenge 2019 + Video

The Adventure Spec Challenge 2019 + Video

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The idea behind The Adventure Spec Challenge was simple. Create a series of events that help adventure riders explore incredible landscapes, try out roadbook navigation just like the Dakar riders, and ride their big bikes on the terrain it was built for. And still be at work Monday morning.
RallyMoto and Adventure Spec have joined together to bring three of their popular navigation events into one Adventure Spec Challenge. From Welsh hills to Northumbrian forests via the iconic Isle of Man, the challenge will take adventure riders on a unique journey around the UK throughout 2019. All riders who are entered into the Kielder 500, Wales 500 or the IOM 500 are automatically entered into the Adventure Spec Challenge.
The aim of the Adventure Spec Challenge is to have as low as score as possible across the three events. The more accurately you follow the roadbook instructions the lower your score will be. Riders are tracked by GPS and their total km ridden logged by event organisers. Points are given for each km above or below the official course distance.

For every km a rider finishes outside of the official distance they are given one point. The rider with the lowest number of points at the end of the three events wins!
What if I can’t attend all three events?
Good news, you can still be in the running to win The Adventure Spec Challenge even if you miss one event.
Only your two best scores will count towards your total. This also means you get to fluff one event if you are riding all three.
Points are awarded across each rally and the lowest score at the end of the series wins The Adventure Spec Challenge. There’s prizes for second and third too.
And for everyone who doesn’t make it onto the podium, we can guarantee that after three events you will have become a skilled roadbook navigator, opening the doors to more competition focussed events the world over. We expect you many make one or two like minded moto friends along the way too!
Keilder 500 is now full to bursting – reserve list open

Keilder 500 is now full to bursting – reserve list open

We have reached our capacity of 120 riders, and a bit more, for the Kielder 500. We have 130 riders ready to take on a phenomenal “adventure bike” ride through Kielder Forest and around Kielder Water itself. This is a spectacular ride, none of England’s most remote corners. Our most northern checkpoint is Kielder Castle itself, a hunting lodge built by the Duke of Northumberland in 1775. The course is 80% hard based gravel tracks and road liaison to enable fuel and rest stops. The Kielder 500 forms part of the Adventure Spec Challenge.
The RallyMoto team are really looking forwards to this event and the roadbook is nearly complete for the two days, this is going to be a great adventure for all the riders taking part.
Riders, who missed out on an entry can add their names to the reserve list should we have riders drop out nearer the date. https://rallymoto.co.uk/kielder-500-2019-reserve-list-form/
AFRICA ECO RACE 2019: First stage victory for JENSEN

AFRICA ECO RACE 2019: First stage victory for JENSEN

Felix JENSEN is 27 years old and is Norwegian. He is the student and team partner of Pal Anders ULLEVALSETER. He first made an appearance in rally-raid in 2018 on the AFRICA ECO RACE and had finished 4th. Today, a hidden waypoint was challenging for all the riders. Indeed, the WPM only appeared on the GPS when in a 500 meter range. And as all leaders went the wrong way, they took some time to get back on track.
Felix JENSEN was the first to validate this WPM and, onboard his KTM, land wins the first special stage of his young career. The Norwegian beats Patrice CARILLON, first French pilot of the day and his KTM by 1’05’’. Simone AGAZZI with his HONDA, one of the favourites of the race, finishes 3rd at 2’08’’ in front of Pal Anders ULLEVALSETER at 3’44’’. The success of the day is attributed to Domenico CIPOLLONE who arrives in 6th place, only 10’56’’ from the winner. Thanks to this performance, the Italian managed once again to reduce the time between him and ULLEVALSETER as he finishes 5th at 5’44’’, which is 2 minutes ahead of the Norwegian.
Therefore, in the general ranking, BOTTURI still has 5’15’’ ahead. Not much but with only two special stages left, ULLEVALSETER has to react fast. Great day for the legend Franco PICCO who scores 8th, just behind Francisco ARREDONDO. A logical result for this veteran who drove with his experience. Bad news though for the French Guillaume VIDAL who fell on kilometer 40. A fall that required a helicopter transfer to Nouakchott for some medical tests. His KTM caught fire in the accident and was destroyed.

STAGE RESULTS – Bike :

1. Felix Jensen n°102 (NOR) 05 :09 :18
2. Patrice Carillon n°106 (FRA) + 00 :01 :05

3. Simone Agazzi n°116 (ITA) + 00 :02 :08

OVERALL – Bike :
1. Alessandro Botturi n°103 (ITA) 37 :07 :34
2. Pal Anders Ullevalseter n°100 (NOR) + 00 :05 :15
3. Simone Agazzi n°116 (ITA) + 02 :07 :05

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