From Friday 14th through to the 16th RallyMoto will be at the MCN London Motorcycle Show. We are on Stand A33, in the Adventure Area.
It would be great to meet up with any members and to have a chat about activities, roadbook stuff and events planned for 2020.
We have a lot going on and it is going to be a great 2020.
See you there – Stand 2020.
You must register for the 2020 All Terrain Rally Challenge on the web site. We will be able to provide a dedicated service for event entries and to update you on results.
Mike Wells has taken over the scoring and points system for 2020 and having a list of registered riders will make the collation of the results much easier for us. This was problematic for us in 2019.
You will also need to be a member to register.
The Peaks Extreme Adventure Cannonball is now open, time to start making plans for 2020 and practising for the Kielder 500, the Wales 500 and the IOM 500, which are all part of the Adventure Spec Challenge.
For 2020 all Adventure Cannonball Roadbooks will be in Kilometres (KM), as will the 500’s.
Check out the details for The Peaks Extreme
Friday is the day the entries open for the Kielder 500 in 2020. The arrangements have been made and we are ready to go.
For 2020, there are more offroad tracks, across more forests. The navigation will be a bit tougher for 2020 and also we will not be issuing a GPS track as a back up. All roadbooks will be in kilometres.
We are aiming for a 300km on Saturday and a 200km on Sunday – so an early get away is possible on Sunday.
We have also arranged for a bar on the Friday evening and pizzas for those who are arriving the day before. Also there is a breakfast for all riders this year.
Kielder 500 date: 28/29th March 2020
Entries will be live here: https://rallymoto.co.uk/kielder-500/
September saw the Big Bikes head over to the famous Isle of Man for the IOM 500. A total of 68 riders braved the ferry crossing and headed North to the camp site and start area.
The course covered almost all the island form the Northern area right down to the most Southern point where we had a very scenic check point and first class cafe.
With signing on completed over Friday and Saturday morning the riders were handed their roadbooks along with nine amendments to the route. The organisation team had an enforced last minute route change from a local farmer, a road closure and some of the tracks on the mountain had been ravaged by heavy rain and deemed unsuitable for the larger bikes.
All the riders set off for an initial 50km loop to get back into the roadbook navigation and then the real course started with a 15km track that headed straight up into the mountains and across the island. All the riders followed the amended route, which was a relief for the organising team, who watched live on the GPS tracking system.
Te tracks were more varied than in the previous “500’s” with some of the tracks being more of a challenge, even saying that one husband and wife team did the whole course on both days two-up, so no excuses.
Day 2, was a similar route to day one, with a few changes to test the navigation.
With both days completed the riders collected their medals and headed off to the local for a celebration.
Reserve your place now for the 2020 “500’s”: https://rallymoto.co.uk/reserve-your-place-on-the-2020-500s/
The Gold medal winners for the IOM were:-
| Position | Medal | Number | First | Last | POINTS |
| 1 | GOLD | 207 | Dag | Sonstebo | 100 |
| 2 | GOLD | 221 | Darren | Williams | 99 |
| 3 | GOLD | 241 | Ryan | Abonyi | 98 |
| 4 | GOLD | 246 | Reuben | Molina | 97 |
| 5 | GOLD | 240 | John | Thompson | 96 |
| 6 | GOLD | 212 | Nathan | Best | 95 |
| 7 | GOLD | 215 | Iwan | Rees | 94 |
| 8 | GOLD | 254 | Ed | Sarchet | 93 |
| 9 | GOLD | 225 | Stewart | Cox | 92 |
| 10 | GOLD | 264 | Jonathan | Carr | 91 |
| 11 | GOLD | 243 | Cecil | Pienaar | 90 |
| 12 | GOLD | 247 | Jonathan | Ball | 89 |
| 13 | GOLD | 251 | Martin | Ashby | 88 |
| 14 | GOLD | 250 | Clint | Smith | 87 |
| 15 | GOLD | 242 | Iain | Mackay | 86 |
| 16 | GOLD | 226 | John | Reynolds | 85 |
| 17 | GOLD | 227 | Mitchell | Reynolds | 84 |
| 18 | GOLD | 229 | Ben | Collins | 83 |
| 19 | GOLD | 235 | David | Smith | 82 |
It looks as though Jordan Corkhill has the Overall and the RallyLite 2 class all sewn up with a 100% win record with one round to go. Lee Green is in second place overall but can’t win enough points in the final round to dislodge Corkhill.
It is all to play for for third place overall as Henry Righton, Mike Wells and Andy Hayes are all close together in the points.
RallyLite 1 is headed up by Mike Wells comfortably, with Paul Boother in second place. Again there could be a fight for third place between Alex Ruck and Dylan Williams.
RallyLite 2 has Jordan Corkhill leading Dave Leach with Henry Righton and Andy Hayes again fighting for podium points.
In the Big Bike class Rik Griffin is out in the lead and needs a reasonable finish at Hafren to keep Lee Green in second place.
See the full results:- https://rallymoto.co.uk/atrc-points-2019/
With so many riders requesting access to the entry form for the Kielder 500, Wales 500 and IOM 500 for 2020 we have put together a “reserve your place” form for RallyMoto members.
Both the Kielder 500 and the Wales 500 events in 2019 were pretty well at capacity.
What’s new for 2020
Adventure Spec Challenge for 2020
The three “500” rounds will once again form the Adventure Spec Challenge.
The route is approximately 200 km and makes use of minor roads as much as possible although there are a few interesting A roads thrown in too.
We may be adding some more demanding tracks but there will always be an option for the big bikes and a friendly route.
It is also not the same course as last Autumns ride out.
Reserve your place: https://rallymoto.co.uk/the-peaks-adventure-cannonball/
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.
