2012 Minnesota 1000

2012 Minnesota 1000

 

2012 Minnesota 1000
June 15 - 17, 2012

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes are afoot in 2012, and TeamStrange is pleased to announce a new location for this year’s Minnesota 1000. St. Paul Harley-Davidson has generously offered to host our event, June 15-17. As always, Friday night starts off with the Liar’s Banquet, your opportunity to meet and greet your fellow riders and enjoy a fine BBQ meal. A riders meeting will be held promptly thereafter and following that, the rally pack and rally flags with all bonus location information (including a thumb drive with GPS coordinates) will be distributed. Another change this year: Riders who wish to avail themselves of a 36 hour option will then be permitted to depart.

Those riders who choose to take up the 36 hour challenge will be competing with the rest of the 24 hour field. What does this mean? All riders who choose to depart on Friday night will be required to first obtain one specific bonus location (the rest bonus excepted), and only after that are free to pursue any and all other desired bonus locations on the route sheet. This mandatory first stop for the 36 hour challenge is not so far away nor is it worth nearly enough points by itself to constitute a winning or trophy earning ride. What the 36 hour option offers is the opportunity for experienced or expert riders to stretch their legs a bit further and also to gain access to a few other high point-value bonuses that the 24 hour riders will not be able to reach.

24 hour rally riders will have some advantages beyond a shorter rally. There will be some high point-value bonuses that will be impossible to obtain for those who choose the 36 hour option, due to location and/or time restrictions. A 36 hour rider can expect to ride near or even right past bonuses that will be unavailable to them until after they pick up the mandatory first bonus. It could be possible for a well-planned and executed 24 hour ride to result in a higher final point value than that obtained on a 36 hour ride, with less territory to cover but more stops required - and slightly less margin for error. Thus the choice: Do I wish to ride more miles and pick up fewer (though bigger in value) bonuses? Or, do I stick with the traditional 24 hour format?

Riders will be competing for top five trophies in three new for this year classes: Expert, Experienced and Rookie. The “rookie” class will be for those riders who have never ridden in a 24 hour rally before, and this group of riders is/will be strongly discouraged from taking up the 36 hour option. “Experienced” riders will be those who have never previously qualified for TeamStrange’s “expert” class. Expert class riders (you know who you are) and experienced class
riders may choose either the 24 or 36 hour format, and the trophy for 1st place overall will be awarded to the rider who achieves the highest point total from amongst all three classes.

We’ll be offering breakfast at the finish on Sunday morning and of course the traditional rally swag - a fine rally shirt (in short or long sleeve), rally decals and a rally coffee mug. For riders looking for lodging nearest to the rally site, this place is directly across the freeway from St. Paul H-D. The exact start time for the banquet and rally will be announced later, but expect it to be very similar (banquet at 6 p.m. Friday, riders meeting around 7 p.m.) to the last several rallies; we’ll update the web site and riders as soon as the details are finalized. The field will be limited to 85 riders so do not delay too long before entering.

Is it June yet?

 

HOW TO ENTER:

Click the link below to download the entry form.  Print and fill it out the form completely.  Be sure to read the release information at the bottom, then sign it and send it to the address shown at the top of the form.

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