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Grim Riders' Treasure Hunt
Saturday 24th April
Challenge: To visit as many of the Grim Riders ride landmarks as you can within 12 hours, between 6am and 6pm. Challenge ride rules apply. Different types of landmarks will carry different points' value and there will be points available for completing Bronze Award rides (e.g 5 landmarks from the same ride) and for collecting landmarks from a different number of different rides. Contact me if you would like a map of all the different landmarks for all the rides (please identify format required eg Autoroute, Mapsource or TomTom Navigator etc). See below for list of all points available for each ride - n.b. points for gaining a Bronze award as well are in addition to points for visiting individual landmarks (e.g. visiting 5 windmill landmarks will gain you 5 x 225 points, plus a bonus of 1125 points for a total of 2250 points forthose landmarks).
Start and finish: Start from anywhere in Britain - finish will either be the same location as your start or there may be the option of a shared finish for all riders (6pm at the Wagon Load of Lime public house - a landmark on the Pub Crawl Ride).
Evidence needed: Timed receipts for start and finish of your ride. Photographs of your bike and placard in front of each of the landmarks on your selected ride, and photographs of your GPS unit with a numbered sticker attached. Number to be written on your sticker will be sent to you the day before the ride (see Challenge Ride page for further details of this).
Timetable: Contact me at grim@thegrimrider.com to register your interest. Send me ride payment of £10 before the start of the ride, either by post or by paypal to the same address. Entries must be sent in by 24th March. Decide on your route visiting ride landmarks according to the points’ matrix below.The day before the ride you will receive (by email or text) a ride number which you need to write on a label stuck on your GPS unit. On the day –get a receipt from anywhere to mark the start of your ride; visit all landmarks – taking a photograph of your GPS unit and the landmark at each; then complete you ride by getting a receipt and then, within the next 24 hours, email me copies of your photographs, of receipts, GPS and landmarks.
Points' Matrix:
| Ride Landmarks |
Points Value (Each landmark) |
Points Value for Bronze Award |
| English Counties |
100 |
3000 |
| Welsh Counties |
115 |
- |
| Scottish Counties |
125 |
2400 |
| Battlefields Ride |
200 |
1000 |
| Pub Crawl Ride |
225 |
1125 |
| Windmills Ride |
235 |
1175 |
| Circuits Ride |
240 |
1200 |
| Letter Boxes Ride |
250 |
1250 |
| Standing Stones Ride |
275 |
1375 |
| Mountain Passes Ride |
300 |
1500 |
| National Parks Ride |
350 |
1750 |
| Lifeboat Stations |
500 |
2500 |
Visiting landmarks from more than five different rides : 500 point bonus
Recognition: A special Challenge certificate will be sent to all successful entrants and a list of riders kept on the website.
Results from 2010's Event
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 1st |
Robert Roalfe |
Old Arley |
BMW R1150GS |
4500 |
4000 |
8500 |
516 miles |
11hrs 47mins |
Route taken: Silverstone (Circuit1), Cambridge (County), Cambridge (Letterbox1), Fulbourn (Windmill1), Nutshell (Pub1), Buttrums (Windmill2), Framlingham (Letterbox2), Snetterton (Circuit2), Ark Royal (Pub2), Great Bircham (Windmill3), Heckington (Windmill4), Winceby (Battlefield1), Cadwell (Circuit3), Prussian Queen (Pub3), Waltham (Windmill5), Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem (Pub4), Donington(Circuit4), Mallory (Circuit5), Bosworth (Battlefield2), Wagon Load (Pub5)
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 2nd |
Dave Winter |
Blackpool |
Yamaha FJR1300 |
4960 |
2000 |
6950 |
394 miles |
11hrs 31mins |
Route taken: St Annes (Lifeboat1), Lytham (Windmill1), Lake District (Nat Park1), Kirkstone (Mtn Pass1), Hardknott (Mtn Pass2), Castlerigg (Stones1), Honister (Mtn Pass3), Workington(Lifeboat2),Carlisle (County1), Solway Moss (Battlefield), Once Brewed (Nat Park2), Hartside (Mtn Pass4), Long Meg (Stones2), Appleby (County2), Tan Hill (Pub), Buttertubs (Mtn Pass5), Hawse (Nat Park3), Lytham (Windmill)*, St Annes (Lifeboat)* *re-visited to retake photographs
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 3rd |
Kevin & Lyn Weller |
Dover |
Kawasaki GTR1400 |
4630 |
1675 |
6305 |
414 miles |
11hrs 35mins |
Route taken: Hastings (Battlefield), South Downs (Nat Parks1), Lewes (County1), Lion & Lobster (Pub), Littehampton (Lifeboat), Goodwood (Circuit1), Chichester (County2), Hambledon (Letterbox1), Bursledon (Windmill1), New Forest (Nat Parks2), Thruxton (Circuit2), Stonehenge (Stones1), Avebury (Stones2), Wilton (Windmill2), Lacey Green (Windmill2), Windsor (Letterbox2), Brentford (County3), Wimbledon (Windmill4), Cranbrook Union (Windmill5)
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 4th |
Bob Badger |
Doncaster |
BMW R1200GS |
4025 |
2000 |
6025 |
391 miles |
11hrs 46mins |
Route taken: Marston Moor (Battlefield), Hawes (Nat Parks1), Long Meg (Stones1), Hartside (Mtn Pass1), Casterigg (Stones2), Honister (Mtn Pass2), Workington (Lifeboat), Hardknott (Mtn Pass3), Kirkstone (Mtn Pass4), Lake District (Nat Parks2), Old Thirteenth (Pub), Winnats (Mtn Pass5), Peak District (Nat Parks3)
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 5th |
Martyn White |
Banbury |
Triumph Tiger |
3400 |
1500 |
4900 |
489 miles |
11hrs 48mins |
Route taken: Old Thirteenth (Pub), Hawes (Nat Parks1), Buttertubs (Mtn Pass1), Lake District (Nat Parks2), Kirkstone (Mtn Pass2), Hardknott (Mtn Pass3), Honister (Mtn Pass4), Castlerigg (Stones), Hartside (Mtn Pass5), Once Brewed (Nat Parks3), North Yorks Moors (Nat Parks4)
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 6th |
Stephen Miles |
Fareham |
BMW R1200GSA |
2525 |
500 |
3025 |
330 miles |
10hrs 10mins |
Route taken: Hambledon (Letterbox); Winchester (County1); Bursledon (Windmill1); New Forest (Parks); Thruxton (Circuit1); Wilton (Windmill2); Castle Combe (Circuit2); Trowbridge (County2); Prince Leopold (Pub); Stonehenge (Stones1); Avebury (Stones2)
| Place |
Name |
Hometown |
Bike |
Points |
Bonuses |
Total |
Mileage |
Time Taken |
| 7th |
Julie Wallis |
Northolt |
BMW R100R |
1665 |
0 |
1665 |
289 miles |
10hrs 47 mins |
Route taken: Thruxton (Circuit), Stonehenge (Stones1), Prince Leopold (Pub), Stanton Drew (Stones2), Trowbridge (County), Avebury (Stones3), Rollright Stones (Stones4)
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