Treasure Hunt Ride

Date: Saturday 24th April 2011

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 for those 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
Millennium Ride 260 1350
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.