24 Hour Distance Record

[GaRRy]

Just to confirm

I have now got definitive permission to run this at Hoylake On June 23rd/24th. Do need to check with council etc not a issue running overnight but event will definately take place.

Some basic details (subject to change)

Teams will consist of between 3 and 5 members (only teams of 3 will count official FISLY recognised record)

Object is to travel as far as possible in 24 hours

Each team will require at least 2 GPS to verify distance

24 hours will start at 10 am on the saturday (will delay up to 2 pm for bad weather/no wind at which point clock will start regaurdless)

Each team will be required to do marshalling at some point (if they can find some other idiot wiling to do this for them at 4 am in morning thats fine)

Cost per team will be £40 (plus 5 pounds per team member above 3 )

If you wish to enter a team please let me know ASAP as number of teams will be restricted.

This event is open to all

If any one is interested in sponsering this event please contact me

[mx5alan]

If you wish to enter a team please let me know ASAP as number of teams will be restricted.

This event is open to all

is that for both Buggys and Landboards ?
and for ALL kite insurance - BBC/BKSA and FED ?

Can teams be mixed both Landboards and Buggys ?

[GaRRy]

If you wish to enter a team please let me know ASAP as number of teams will be restricted.

This event is open to all

is that for both Buggys and Landboards ?
and for ALL kite insurance - BBC/BKSA and FED ?

Sorry wont be landboards as they are not allowed at hoylake (councils decision not ours).

As for insurance im working on it

[Chris k333]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT been waiting for confirmation of this can not wait to do this one!! and i might have found some one stupid enough to do my lap counting for me... the gf haha what better way to show her kite buggying than a 24 hr race

well done garry on this so far

[big-jon]

Yea big well done Garry - I am up for it, will you be in the Ozone team Chris or do you want to come and play with me??

Can we make it a charity event garry??

[mx5alan]

is that for both Buggys and Landboards ?
and for ALL kite insurance - BBC/BKSA and FED ?

Sorry wont be landboards as they are not allowed at hoylake (councils decision not ours).

Thanks, thats what I thought - so not open to ALL...

Will see if any of the Stopsley Flyers - Buggiers are interested.

Update - as expected - Nobody is interested at the moment....

[king_of_the_sky]

me jamie and kev would liek to do it as our ye oldie youthful yoakles team cant wait now to find an idiot...........

[Mouthwash]

count me in, doh!

[39inman]

i`m up for this sounds like a good idea just need to find to more mugs er people to race with.....

[Kiteboyza]

might just leave Wales behind for this one......will see if any of the boyos want to venture out!

[Simon Bailey]

I'm up for it...now can I rope in Martin Chandler and Mark Hoyland for the Tornado Combat Team....lol

[martnic]

I'm up for it...now can I rope in Martin Chandler and Mark Hoyland for the Tornado Combat Team....lol

Count me in for that one (I will have the Tornado by then, and you never know maybe the kites as well!!)


Martin

[!!!]

Book me down for one of those team's.
Will we be going round a course/laps or will this be distance measured by the two GPS units (lap counters checking GPS units when pilots change over) just wondered?

Anyone tried bugging in the dark, have you got any tips?

[big-jon]

I have never buggied on Ainsdale in the dark!! That would be agianst the rules!!!

Hows about an Ainsdale flyers team Granville??

[madasabloke]

Team O-Zone.......

Team Combat.......

So does this mean that Chris B and I need one more to do Team U-Turn???

[madasabloke]

Anyone tried bugging in the dark, have you got any tips?

Halogen Lamps and a Motorcycle crash helmet with a full one peice leather race suit, body armour....... and the biggest sence of humor you can muster!!!!

[king_of_the_sky]

nah i rkeon only red lights on back of buggys and ahve headlamp for incase u crash n nee dto sort summin out as if evry 2 has lamps on there bugs it'll ruin everyones night vision and its pretty easy to see kites inmiddle of the night as long as its not overly cloudy

[martnic]

Team O-Zone.......

Team Combat.......

So does this mean that Chris B and I need one more to do Team U-Turn???

How about tommy??

[Chris k333]

yes just use bike red lights on the back??? and may be store one just incase to light up your vision for tangles?

any way night flying is easy just do not use tinted goggles haha

and not sure about ozone team yet.. shall check with the oldies to see what they think.

Personally i would like it to be a course all 24 hrs.... but from what garry was thinking at pka its just a course through the night for safety and day time = go as fast as you can for most coverage

[Chris k333]

Team O-Zone.......

Team Combat.......

So does this mean that Chris B and I need one more to do Team U-Turn???

How about tommy??

does jim not use u turn?

[GaRRy]

Can we make it a charity event garry??

Already thought of this

Just need to think of a suitable charity (preferably one local to the wirral)and get teams to raise sponsership

Already got 15 teams provisionally interested.

Once I know all the details ill start to take entrance money (probably in new year)

Can all teams so far email me garry.box@infor.com with a team name and contact email address as those teams will be given first options to enter.

[Chris k333]

for sponsor ship purposes could it not be for some cancer... so more people can relate? all i know is most people i know wont vote for some hoylake thing.. but if it was a general charity??

or may be for the type of ambulance cover you get for their hospital? just ideas which im sure you have already thought off .....so ill be quite now

[tigertim]

Yeah I'm up for this. Maybe we can have a night time practice sometime before so we know the best way to do it?

I guess with the glow from Liverpool it won't ever really be that dark? Can't say I've ever really managed to get those kite lights to work. Might be good to start knicking some of those roadworks lights to use as markers??

[king_of_the_sky]

think garrys on that already, i really think the only lights you need/want is a red light on back of buggy and orange lights at markers any more and you ruin your night vision

[tigertim]

Yeah true, maybe some form of light on the front of the bug just to distinguish it head on too.

Maybe someone can lend / sponsor us some night vision glasses?!