2022 GLMC Grand Tour Discussion

[Shooter]

(09-05-2021 09:10 AM)Sleddog Wrote:  I just watched a piece on CBS Sunday Morning about 911 memorials. There are over 500 of them at various locations across the country. Most are located in the east; making a 911 specific GT difficult. Although combining with other memorials is possible.
There is a memorial located at the International Peace Gardens on the US/Canada border in North Dakota.

Remember what happened last time the "East Coast" had a ton of GT's??

The 9/11 theme would take you to a lot of cool places and read stories about amazing people that lost their lives that day. I need an excuse to ride more so I don't end up like Cruzin being sore after a couple hundreds miles.

[StarWolve]

I like the "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" idea.

Airports, Train Stations, and Car/motorcycle... museums? Seems like dealerships would be too easy.

I also suggest the "Tour of Duty" every year. American Legions, VFW's, etc. 1 point for the location, and an extra point if they have some type of military equipment outside (cannons, tanks, helicopters, etc.)

[Lapchik]

I really like the tour of duty theme too. There is what I think is an M24 tank outside the VFW here in Alexandria.

[LSGiant]

Why would we do the same thing as Tour of Duty ?

Would be the same as doing the same thing as Team Strange ?

I am not in favor of doing duplicates with other groups.

[Lapchik]

Was not aware they had done that. It's no longer on their site so it must have been some time ago.

[LSGiant]

I guess maybe I am misunderstanding. I thought Starwolve was suggesting we include the Tour of Honor sites as part of our Grand Tour. If so that is what I am not in favor of.

[Lapchik]

I have no idea what Tour of Duty/Honor is, relating to any motorcycle group event in the Midwest. If Team Strange did it, it must have been long ago. I checked their site for what they had done previously so I didn't repeat anything.

[xander84]

Guessing it's this.
https://www.tourofhonor.com/

[Lapchik]

Ooooooh ok. Similar but different than what StarWolve was describing.

[Sioux Falls]

How about something different like this? Everyone have heard the song "I've Been Everywhere". How about a tour where you visit the towns/states listed in the song. I just down loaded the names, and there are 90 towns/states in the song. I'm sure there are numerous towns in the song that are in more than one state. You would need to take a picture to prove the state(post office, etc), but it should be very easy to do.

[Lapchik]

Team Strange did that not long ago. Not something we will copy.

[Lapchik]

Theme will be announced at the banquet, and then the next morning on this forum.

[kperson]

Well it wasn't SUPER recent...
https://www.teamstrange.com/2000/ibet/ibet.htm

[Lapchik]

2022 will be Planes, Trains, and Automobiles! Going to proof read the rules one more time and then send them to Frump to get uploaded to the site. Here are the locations:

2022 Locations
General locations worth 1 point each. Town names must start with a G, L, M, or C.
-Any airport (active airports, no museums)
-Any train station (active stations, no museums)
-Any racetrack (go-kart, motocross, NASCAR, drag strip, etc.)
-9/11 memorials* (see note in planes combo below)

Sponsors combo locations worth 1 point each with an additional 3 points if you get all three.
-Fun Sports of Hutchinson, 16235 MN-7, Hutchinson, MN
-The MotoCycle Shop, 1022 5th St SE, Watertown, SD
-South Shore GLMC Riding Area, East of South Shore, SD on SD-20

Special combo locations. Each individual location is worth 3 points each with an additional 15 points if you get all three in a category.

Planes combo:
-Buddy Holly Crash Site, 22728 Gull Ave, Clear Lake, IA
-----Chose one of the following options:
----------Glasses marker by the road requires a photo of your bike and rally flag
----------Memorial along the fenceline, if you choose to walk to it, a photo of the memorial and your flag.
-Any 9/11 memorial
-----You can get more than one, but only the one claimed in the combo bonus will count as 3 points. All subsequent 9/11 memorials will be 1 point. You can not use two 9/11 memorials for the combo bonus.
-Any other airplane historical site, museum, or memorial. Working airports do not count here as they are in the general location section.

Trains combo:
-Golden Spike National Historical Park, 6200 N 22300 W, Corinne, UT (park sign picture)
-Mid Continent Railway Museum, E8948 Museum Rd, North Freedom, WI (museum sign on Diamond Hill Rd near the water tower)
-Any train car inside a town, for display, and not on an active railway.

Automobiles combo:
-Carhenge, 2151 Co Rd 59, Alliance, NE (entry sign in driveway)
-Any Route 66 highway marker sign along the actual route (on a pole or painted on road)
-Any automobile museum (Pioneer Auto Museum, Henry Ford Museum, etc.)

Motorcycles combo:
-Barber Motorsports Park and Museum, 6040 Barber Motorsports Pkwy, Leeds, AL (sign on building visible from museum parking lot)
-Wheels through Time, 62 Vintage Lane, Maggie Valley, NC (sign for access road along Soco Road)
-Any other motorcycle museum (Sturgis Museum, National Motorcycle Museum, etc.)

[Don Q]

All general bonuses are found in GLMC towns only? No Sauk Centre airport, Viking Speedway Alexandria, or Amtrak station in Red Wing?

[Lapchik]

Correct. Glenwood airport would be 1 point since it starts with G, Sauk Center airport would be 0 as it starts with S.

[239]

i hope no one runs into the issues we had a few years ago trying to get riders to take photos of airport signs- let's just say Homeland Security had a chat with some folks

[Lapchik]

Maybe if you're trying to take pictures of the terminal at a major international airport. I highly doubt anything at all will happen at small town USA airport.

[Willie]

Any more news on the 2022 Grand Tour. I see Ride Master has Planes, Trains and Automobiles listed. Any Specifics yet?

Willie

Updated
Needed to scroll up. So ignore my question

[DJFriar]

(09-01-2021 02:15 PM)ajayhawkfan Wrote:  Does this website have the capacity to host a lot of pictures?

The reason I'm asking: I think it would be of interest to everyone if the participants of the challenge started their own thread were they could post pictures while doing the ride challenge. I believe it would also make it easier to score for the rally master.

Those that can't post pictures or chose not too could sent in the results as they have in the past.

(09-01-2021 02:45 PM)Lapchik Wrote:  It's not easy to upload pictures to this site, and there is a size limit. Easier to have a different site host the image, like Facebook/ADVrider/smugmug or whatever and just embed a picture link here.

I could help with this if GLMC would like. Not sure how many images the scorers end up having to process for GLMC, but I built the scoring portal that Tour of Honor will be using this year (which is expected to process 60k submissions over the course of their 7 month rally).