Thanks Shuey for the "expert analysis" and commentary from an insider to the big dance!
I like how Warchild salutes Al Holtsberry during the start...
I like how Warchild salutes Al Holtsberry during the start...
I've been wondering the same thing. Maybe he/she is going to ride the coast and hit all of the National parks along the way, then swing through some of the smaller states?? All the people riding west and north are riding through BIG States. More miles to cover each State. You have to draw a north-south line just about through the great lakes to split the country 50-50 on State count....Someone is spending a whole bunch of time in TX. Wondering if there is a points bump for scooping up all the particular boni in a single state...
Shuey,For those who haven't read the Day 2 report . . . spoiler alert.
Peter, While I am not Shuey, I can answer a couple of your questions. On the spot tracks, the colors denote if it was a OK message,tracking message, custom message to help message. Green is OK & Orange is a tracking ping, yellow it a custom. As to how fast is to fast to ride that is up to Lisa and Mike. This year riders were getting points for having a spot, from what I have read it will be hard to be in the top of the points with out a spot track.Shuey,
A few quick questions that were suggestively answered in the day's reports but were not explicit for a newbie to the IBR (me).
Am I correct that the various numbers representing each rider are scrambled each time I refresh my screen to prevent us from ID'ing one rider and figuring out his strategy? So, unless I stay glued to the computer and watch a single SPOT' near, say Austin, TX trying to follow one particular numbered SPOT is useless? (I.e., I cannot keep looking for say, 119 because that number will rotate through various riders.)
The Day 2 report mentioned the people in Alb. NM are watching for speeders? So a participant cannot make up for lost time by doing what these bikes do so well on lightly traveled roads in rural areas (exceed the speed limit)? How fast can they go before the IBA penalizes them?
If a rider refused to carry a SPOT beacon and allow himself to be tracked he is docked points or gets lower bonus's for the same bonus location a SPOT equipped rider would get?
What do the yellow and green SPOT flags indicate? Iirc, one was a resting bike (not traveling). Which one? Whats the other?
Thanks.
Peter
Good questions Peter. Here's my best shot at answering them.Shuey,
A few quick questions that were suggestively answered in the day's reports but were not explicit for a newbie to the IBR (me).
Am I correct that the various numbers representing each rider are scrambled each time I refresh my screen to prevent us from ID'ing one rider and figuring out his strategy? So, unless I stay glued to the computer and watch a single SPOT' near, say Austin, TX trying to follow one particular numbered SPOT is useless? (I.e., I cannot keep looking for say, 119 because that number will rotate through various riders.)
The Day 2 report mentioned the people in Alb. NM are watching for speeders? So a participant cannot make up for lost time by doing what these bikes do so well on lightly traveled roads in rural areas (exceed the speed limit)? How fast can they go before the IBA penalizes them?
If a rider refused to carry a SPOT beacon and allow himself to be tracked he is docked points or gets lower bonus's for the same bonus location a SPOT equipped rider would get?
What do the yellow and green SPOT flags indicate? Iirc, one was a resting bike (not traveling). Which one? Whats the other?
Thanks.
Peter
Top left corner of the Spotwalla page you'll see "2015 Iron Butt Rally"....click on it and there is a drop down menu. Go to "Legend" and click on it. You'll see what colours mean what............
4. Coloring of markers on the SPOT Public page . . . I wonder about that myself. ...........
Stay tuned,
Shuey
yes it's typically the home area for that spot but not sure if that's also jumbled up for the purposes of all this. Also, it's a pretty vague area/zone like chicago or new york but could be many surrounding states.Interesting tidbit of info....not sure if it means much...but if click on the actual spot location icons located on the map it will give you a bunch of info. One piece of that info is "Device TZone". Right beside that you'll see, for example, America/NewYork or America/Vancouver. Could this be the Spot device's home location? More importantly the rider's home location?