Hokey Hey challenge

[county]

I have been following this race with much interest.  So has Canadian law enforcement.

Anyway now I am wondering what impact this "event" will have on the IBA....

Thoughts????

[squeezer]

The LD rider list has been buzzing about it. I've honestly skipped most of the discussion, but the parts I read mostly mirrored the thread here -- the whole "train wreck you can turn away from" bit.  

The biggest concern seems to be that all long distance rallying will be painted with this same clusterfuck brush. Most of the LD rally riders I know tend towards the OCD end of the personality continuum and the sheer amateurish nature of this event -- even if ol' Red Cloud isn't an out and out crook (which I think he is) -- offends something deep in many of these folks.

There's a lot of concern with the word "race" being associated with LD rallying. Most LD rallies have built in checks against excessive speed such as mileage caps or check-in locations with limited times. Not that people don't crank it up on occasion, but I've also seen people blackballed from events when their spot trackers showed excessive speeds. I know in my one, lonely rally win, I never hit triple digits. It's more about routing and time management than how fast you can crank your wrist.

And I've seen a few comments that some don't like the press this thing is getting. I think a lot of LD riders like it being a pseudo-underground sport.

But the general tone, again, is like it is here -- "That's them, not us, and them's fucked up. Hope they have fun anyway."

[Scratch33]

I think some of the IB crowd are worrying too much myself.  Quite unlike the Honkey Ho rally, Iron Butts are not widely publicized outside of the target audience beforehand.

[Rocket_Cowboy]

I've turned my LDR sub to digest only for the past week or so, just so I can more easily delete all the Hokey Hey garbage hitting my inbox.

To those who aren't involved with the IBA, I can see how there might not be the fine distinction between the kind of event the IBA sponsors/sanctions and the Hokey Hey, and that's not good for us IMO. The way legislatures make broad, knee-jerk reactions, it wouldn't be unimaginable for some pretty far-reaching laws to be enacted that get in the way of both the Hokey Hey and what the IBA does.