2013 Team Lyle Garden State Rally

RESULTS

Place    Rider #        Score    Class        Name
1st    Rider 1        71400    Experienced    Jim Abbott
2nd    Rider 3        70700    Experienced    Billy Connacher
3rd    Rider 12    63500    Experienced    Rick Armour
4th    Rider 11    62350    Experienced    Pete Madden
5th    Rider 10    61900    Experienced    Jonathan Tan
6th    Rider 14    59700    Experienced    Steve Efthyvoulou
7th    Rider 4        44950    Experienced    Bruce Jansen
8th    Rider 2        43300    Experienced    Albert Oakley
9th    Rider 8        41200    Experienced    Jerome Byrd
10th    Rider 13    28100    Experienced    Rus Milov
11th    Rider 5        26450    Experienced    Chuck Quintero
12th    Rider 7        20800    Experienced    Jean Lachaud
13th    Rider 9        DNF    Experienced    Joel Tolbert
14th    Rider 6        DNS    Experienced    Frederick Germain

Place    Rider #        Score    Class    Name
1st    Rider 24    90000    Rookie    Robert Goldman
2nd    Rider 23    66350    Rookie    Paul Connell
3rd    Rider 25    66150    Rookie    Scott Alexander
4th    Rider 19    65850    Rookie    Kathryn Connell
5th    Rider 16    55550    Rookie    Frederick Cohen
6th    Rider 21    55050    Rookie    Michael Goldsmith
7th    Rider 22    53450    Rookie    Minna Case
8th    Rider 20    49950    Rookie    Marco Anglesio
9th    Rider 17    35700    Rookie    Jeffery Gilbert
10th    Rider 15    DNS    Rookie    David Sammel
11th    Rider 18    DNS    Rookie    Joseph Ruddy
12th    Rider 26    DNS    Rookie    Thomas Jeziorny

Place    Rider #        Score    Class    Name
1st    Rider 28    79900    Two Up    Jeff Wilson
2nd    Rider 30    54850    Two Up    Steve Diederich
3rd    Rider 27    48750    Two Up    Edward Tompkins
4th    Rider 29    DNS    Two Up    Michael Samsen

 

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Important Dates and Information

Registration Opens
01/01/2013

Registration Ends
09/21/2013

Electronic Files and Rally Book Distributed
09/ 25/2013

Rally Begins
09/28/2013

List of riders can be found here

Rally HQ is 60 Readington Road, Branchburg, NJ.

Riders meeting is 8:30 AM, HQ opens at 8:00 AM.

This ride is a Team Strange event and all entry fees go to Eddie's Road.

 Eddie's Road

Eddie’s Road is a program of The Eddie James Foundation for Children. Founded in memory of Eddie James the focus of our non-profit foundation is to stop the cycle of abuse through proper education, mentoring, counseling and activities that encourage children to reach their full potential without the influences of violence, addiction or neglect.

We work directly with national organizations and regional group homes to create programs directed specifically to coaching/mentoring children between the ages of 14-18 as they face the challenges of moving into adulthood and independence from the child welfare system.

Wright and Wrong

TLGSR is going to be an 8 hour mini rally again this year.  The theme is Wright and Wrong.

We had a great turn out last year and a lot of fun.  We learned a few lessons and will make sure this year is more fun, and easier for the newer riders.

If you have never done a LD Rally before, it is a scavenger hunt, on bikes.

Registration is OPEN!

Team Lyle Garden State Rally is a charity motorcycle event. It is an 8 hour scavenger hunt, on motorcycles, all within the borders of NJ, The Garden State!

Description

Date September 28th, 9 AM to 5 PM
Donation $50 per rider, $70 two up
 
Free food at the beginning and end!

This is a charity motorcycle Scavenger hunt, also known as a rally. The concept is simple. On the day of the rally, all riders will meet in Branchburg, NJ.

Each rider will be given a book with bonus locations. Each bonus location is worth some amount of points. You have 8 hours to ride to as many bonus locations as possible, and either take a picture or answer a question and get back to the starting point.  There is no set route.  Each rider is free to choose which bonuses they want to pursue and how many.  There is not a minimum nor maximum number of bonuses you can collect.

This is not a race, your mileage will be checked and there is a 450 500 mile cap on mileage to make sure there is no unwarranted speeding.  Again, this is a cap, not a minimum nor are you expected to ride this far in a given day.  Many rallies have been won by people riding the least miles, but riding to a lot of bonus points and being efficient!

All riding will be within the state of NJ. All bonuses are related to the theme of "Wright and Wrong".

Some people will ride less than 100 miles and some will ride right up to the limit and everything in between.

Every participant will receive a T-Shirt and Rally Towel (a towel with the logo of our rally and a number. This towel must be in all pictures.) Top 3-5 finishers will receive prizes and trophies.  Our sponsors are providing great prizes and swag for our riders, so everyone will get something.  Keep an eye on the site for a listing of the prizes.

All you need to participate is a motorcycle and the willingness to have fun. The only extras you will need are a camera (cell phone camera is OK) a pen or two and some place to put them (backpack, tank bag, saddle bag). This is not a long distance rally. There is no minimum mileage, only a max.


Important Links

Following are links that may or may not be useful to you.  These links are intended to help guide new riders to be successful in their rally.

These links proved invaluable to helping get us ready for our first rally.  We still use many of these tips in our current rally planning.  We highly recommend reading all three lessons.

Rally Routing 101

Rally Routing 201

Rally Routing 400

These links are to documents prepared by Brian R, an IBA veteran.

For those of you who do not have a google account, here is a link to the Iron Butt forum where the PDFs are presented in HTML format.

One of our riders was generous enough to get the PDF files and post them to his website.  There are also other useful links there.

The Iron Butt Association is the be all end all of Long Distance riding and Rallies.

Their Archives of Wisdom are a must read.

For those of you who have never done a rally before, we wanted to present a primer.
Here is an example of how bonuses (bonii) will be presented in the rally book, this is a real location, but not one that will be used in our rally.
Bonus Name: Bells Farm
Bonus information: Bell Farm Antiques was built and established in 1988 by the owners, Rex & Judy Lambert as an antique group shop featuring two floors of country antiques, art, silver, toys, furniture, china, early glass and Victoriana.
Bonus Location: 244 US Route 1 York, Maine 03909
Latitude: 43.143755
Longitude: -70.684748
Point Value: 1,500 Points
Task:  Take a photo of the street sign for this establishment
Odometer:
Time:
This location was used in the 2012 MinuteMan rally.  The details are ficticious.  Following is the bonus picture I took to claim this bonus.

These pictures were accepted as proof of my being at the location.  There are several key parts to these pictures that will be expected of any photos submitted for bonus claims.

1. The bonus requirement is met.  In this case it is to take a picture of the street sign
2. The Rally towel is in the picture and the number is clearly visible.
3. This is helpful, but not required:  The time and date are stamped on the picture.  If you can set your camera to do this, it helps in scoring.  It is not required, however.

When I claimed this bonus, I also had to put down my bike's mileage when I reached the bonus and the time I was at the bonus.  When it comes to time, you should be consistent.  Either use AM and PM or use military time.  Since we are having an 8 hour rally, date does not matter.

All of our bonuses will have the street address and the Latitude and Longitude listed.

Not all bonuses are photo bonuses.  There are many that just require you to go to a location and write down an answer to a question regarding an historical marker for example.

Here is an example of this type of bonus:
Bonus Name: Saddle River Reformed Church and Cemetery (Marker)

Bonus information:

Known as The Old Stone Church It has been ministering to this area since 1784. The present structure of native stone was completed in 1819. Buried here are:
The Rev. Stephen Goetschius minister 1819-1835
The Rev. Dr. Isaac Van Kampen minister 1893-1935
And many Revolutionary and Civil war veterans Bonus Location:

484 E Saddle River Rd

Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

Latitude: 41.070406
Longitude: -74.086561
Point Value: 1,200 Points
Task: Who erected this Marker?
Odometer:
Time:
To Claim the bonus:
Answer: Bergen Country Historical Society (This information is on the marker)
Enter your odometer
Enter time of bonus claim


Yes, you could just go to google and probably figure this out, but cheating at a charity rally is pretty poor form.  In addition, we will be checking your mileage and time vs claimed bonuses and reconstructing your ride based on your bonuses.