Ride of Discovery?

[Womble]

While I was up in Leicestershire over the weekend, I met a fellow Irish chap at a petrol station and we got talking about GSs, as you do.

It turns out, he helps to run some sort of annual navigation run called something like the "Ride of Discovery". The venue varies each year, it's run over several days and uses GPS to track waypoints. I think the chap's name is Geoff Dodkin.

There's certainly a bloke called Geoff Dodkin who has been involved in bikes that turns up in Google searches, but I've not turned up much else in searches.

The format sounds interesting and I'd like to read up more, has anyone got any more information? Or was it just a complete wind-up?

 

[Steve]

Do you mean Rally of Discovery?

 

[Bob Jeffries]

It's called the Rally of Discovery (RoD) and there was one based in Goathland over the B/Holiday weekend. It is as he says, you have to answer questions by visiting specific GPS waypoints, some on-road and some off-road so the event is suitable for all sorts of bikes. I usually do them on my GS, but have done a few on "proper" off-road bikes.

There are normally 2 RoD's each year, one in May and one in September, and the location varies, the next one is in the Isle of Man in September and in 2008 there'll be one in France and possibly one in Ireland.

The idea was "invented" by UKGS'er Phil Gunn and has been continued by a few other UKGS'ers including myself.

For more details either do a search for Rally of Discovery on this site or visit http://www.rallyofdiscovery.org/ where a fledgling web site is being developed.

 

[Womble]

That's the one - many thanks.

 

[AndyT]

Isn't this the one Phil organises known as the Paddy Dakar?? My mate entered it a few years back.