Since my last update, a few of the road rallies have opened-up registration — sort of, in some cases, e.g., ETR & MTR — and the Booking Page for the UK National Tandem Rally is now available. Specific updates have been sent along by the folks for the Fall Fayetteville Tandem Rally and our friends at the Florida PANTHERS have sent along the dates for their rally (18-20 Oct in The Villages), so a big thank you for keeping us in the know.
As for Off-Road Tandem Updates on the Self Organized Off-Road Tandem Adventure (S.O.O.R.T.A.) Facebook Group, I’ve not seen anything more recent than the Southwest Colorado SOORTA event added in my last update.
There are still spaces available for the Georgia Tandem Rally Pre-Tour and the GTR weekend immediately following in the latter half of May, and the Fayetteville events still have space available. Do note that we’ve noted some of the club-hosted rallies have been compelled by their club insurance carriers to require anyone wanting to attend their club events — including rallies — to be members of the club in order to be covered by the insurance policy, never mind the general trends we’re seeing in all insurance rates being on the rise, which trickles down into the cost of putting on rallies, as well as policy costs for clubs.
With that, here are the links to the two blog/web pages with the rally details. In some cases I’d encourage those interested in a rally to go directly to the rally websites, as information is not always as easy to extract and summarize anymore, given how some of the hosted event websites are structured, i.e., compartmentalized to accommodate on-line booking, reservations, registration and/or club membership sign-ups.
As always, updates and corrections are welcomed; just send them along to me in a comment or an email: mark@werlivingood.com
‘The Tandem Geek’s Blog’ landing page is now linked to the ‘Rallies!’ button at the menu bar on the Tandem Club of America webpage, which brings up a mirrored view of our blog within the TCA website. To go to the individual Tandem Events 1 / Road and Tandem Events 2 / Off-Road calendars, just click on their names in the menu bar below the image at the top of our Blog (See where the Finger Pointer is in the below image, for reference).
Background: Nothing new here….
My methodology was the same as usual in that I visited all of the 2023 rally sites that tend to retain the same domain name / URL each year to see if they’d been updated, and then for those URLs that were not updated I did a quick search for the rally event name, batting about .650 with results. The events are listed in chronological order, noting that the latter half of May has become quite crowded with now seven (7) overlapping events, one of which is the International Tandem Rally in the Netherlands and one is the semi-commercial Horsey 100 in Georgetown, Kentucky.
For anyone involved in the planning for an upcoming 2024 tandem rally event who does not see their updated event information posted, or sees any errors, please let me know and I’ll adjust accordingly.
Please note, my blogs are still non-commercial, but WordPress has taken it upon themselves to change their policies over the past year to begin dotting blogs that don’t have a premium package with ads, so my apologies for the ‘junk’ that shows up in the margins and that gets inserted ‘in-line’ now and again. Just know that it’s WordPress who’s generating revenue from these ads and not yours truly.
Finally, note that as I did with the Road event calendar in December, I changed the formatting off the Off-Road event calendar a bit from previous years in a manner that has added a lot of ‘white space’ for separation of the event entries that will hopefully make it easier to parse the events from one-another. However, in doing so I also reduced the size of the text for my extracts from the event sites pertaining to summary information regarding the events costs, rally registration limits, host hotel information, etc. So, if it appears a bit too small, please feel free to use your browser’s ‘Zoom’ feature to increase the size of the all-text, no images webpage.
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