• Welcome, Guest! We hope you enjoy the excellent technical knowledge, event information and discussions that the BMW MOA forum provides. Some forum content will be hidden from you if you remain logged out. If you want to view all content, please click the 'Log in' button above and enter your BMW MOA username and password.

    If you are not an MOA member, why not take the time to join the club, so you can enjoy posting on the forum, the BMW Owners News magazine, and all of the discounts and benefits the BMW MOA offers?

  • Beginning April 1st, and running through April 30th, there is a new 2024 BMW MOA Election discussion area within The Club section of the forum. Within this forum area is also a sticky post that provides the ground rules for participating in the Election forum area. Also, the candidates statements are provided. Please read before joining the conversation, because the rules are very specific to maintain civility.

    The Election forum is here: Election Forum

Iron Butt, Sleep?

samuelh

New member
I thought I read somewhere that in the Iron But rally there are sleep bonuses? Does anyone have any more details on that?

S
 
This is true. Within each 24 hour period there is a certain amount of time for which you earn bonus points for sleeping. It is up to the individual rider as to when.
The Ironbutt assn. is very concerned about safety on all of their rides. there are several pages on the website related to how to tell when you are getting too tired,

460
 
Yes - there are sleep bonuses. They vary in the time period in which they may be taken, in their required duration, and in their point value. If you go to the Iron Butt Association site you can probably find a sample bonus listing to look at.
 
Here is a link to the Bonus Pack for Leg 1 of the 2009 IBR:

http://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2009/LegOneBonusList.pdf

While these rest periods are called bonuses smart riders don't pass one of these up because they are worth enough points that there is nothing else they can be doing that would earn more points. It is only not mandatory because with mandatory would mean that if you mess up paperwork, you would be out of the rally so having it as a bonus worth a ton of points makes it so everyone takes advantage of it.
 
Back
Top