The Discovery
Do you like the GS or the GT? Maybe you’re the RR type. And color. You have to have the right color. Is your choice Alpine White, Red, Blue or Yellow? One thing we can agree on: Choice is great! So Choice is what you’re getting in this year’s Individual Challenge Ride.
Pick a theme, for instance. Maybe this ride you want to visit a few of the more notable Texas cafes. Or how about riding a Forts tour? There’s always the State Parks to ride. Or visit some new roads in Arkansas, Colorado or Louisiana. Of course you can always visit Paris or Miami.
Then there are the times you want to stretch your legs a bit. You can choose Colorado or Arkansas to break in those new tires. There’s always a marathon ride to Marathon, Alpine, Big Bend and or Fort Davis. Come on, you know Texas is a pretty big state. Ride across Texas and you’ve ridden one-third of a coast-to-coast ride.
This year’s Individual Challenge Ride is all about Choice. There are over 400 destinations and bonus locations on this year’s ICR. And more than 70% of those are within a couple of days riding! You can really rack up some points by riding weekends.
This year we are changing the recognition levels. That’s right; you can choose your strategy to fit your objective. We are going to have an overall total point’s winner, along with second and third place. We are adding an Efficiency Award, too. That’s determined by dividing the total points by the total number of locations visited. The highest point total wins. And we just might be looking at the photo’s to find that really unique and creative photo that captures the ICR feeling.
This is not a hard contest to track either, with difficult-to- manage paperwork, documentation and what not. We want you to ride, not work! The ICR Destination worksheet is easy to use. If you’ve got it on a computer, just place a “1” in the Places Ridden column after you’ve visited a spot and taken a picture. The worksheet will keep track of your points. If you don’t want to have the Destination worksheet on a computer, just put a “1” in the column and turn in the worksheet copy along with your pictures. We’ll compute your worksheet score for you when you turn in your documentation.
So grab that camera, jump on that bike and get out there and ride! Visit a few places on the list and get some pictures of those places that you visit. The contest runs from February 9th to October 1st with the documentation due by October 15th. All the Contest rules and the Destination worksheet are on the Club website at http://bmwdfw.org/ under the Contest tab.
