hutzlmandl on tour

This is my usual writeup of the major events that happened this year. And what a year it was! After four meagre years, long distance rallying had a high tide again....

After a series of good rally results it was time for a closing event of the 2023 rallying year: the Brit Butt Rally, a 35 hour rally through Britain. I had...

So the 12 Days Rally is done and dusted and in the rally books. 12 days of riding through 22 countries of about 13.000 kilometers. Visiting 123 bonus point locations. Numerous...

In a few minutes I will be heading to the rally hotel of the 12 Days Rally. It’s not a big trip yet, as it is only 25 min away, situated...

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16th place out of 96 finishers. Very good.

Robert is safely back at the finish control and he’ll be a finisher for sure, with just the “colour” of his finish now to be decided. I’m sorry that this years...

10 a.m. EST, the Iron Butt Rally is over and the social media ban has been lifted. I arrived well with more than three hours to spare. I lost some point...

He’s in Somerset ….. Ah, no, it’s Somerset PA, USA Humour intended for British readers only ….. Just 70 miles to go. By the time I get back home in a...

He’s just 200 miles from the finish now with about 8 hours in hand. He could virtually push the bike home from there !!!!

….. and I know it’s day 10 of an eleven day rally, but I have finally managed to catch up and are now posting “as it happens” ….. Lol !!

Well, he’s just finished his Day 10 ride and he’s in Charleston. He’s just about to take his 8 hour break and when he wakes for day 11, he will have...

When the highlight of the past 2 days was taking pictures of the worlds largest Pistachio nut and the worlds largest Chilli (and they weren’t even bonuses), you know that it’s...

I haven’t spoken to Robert about Day 8 yet, but I can see that he reached San Francisco and is now heading east again and into the Mojave. I’ve just had...

You know sometimes when you do one thing and EVERYONE else does something else and you question why ? Well that is how Robert is feeling right now. On leg 3,...

I cannot lie in that I feel more than a little embarrassed finding myself in this position again. I feel very honoured that for a third time Robert has asked me...

He’s on his way. He has a plan and it’s a good one. He also has a couple of “issues” – one associated to the plan, one not. Neither are show-stoppers...

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I guess most of you won’t know that actually I am on a riding trip myself. Nothing like the IBR, although I’ll have covered about 4000 miles by the time I...

Apart from a “f*uck up” when he forgot to make the call in bonus, day 3 of leg two (day 6 of the rally) went well. During the night between day...