Our Iron Butt Rides

SS1000 27 December 2009

A short report

Traffic, traffic, traffic, road works, road works, road works, traffic, snow, 350 miles from home – bu**er, no rear brake (and it stayed that way), quite a bit of snow (Kevin to Lyn “Shut your eyes so you don’t see the snow, that’s what I’m doing…”), torrential rain, cold, …

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Welcome to Insanity! (SS2000 and E2E Gold)

16/17 June 2009 SS2000 and End to End Gold

“How do you fancy doing a SaddleSore 2000 with me?” asked Kevin…Hmm, that was a difficult one! Many of you may remember that in December 2007 he did a SaddleSore (SS) 1000 which I’d had the sense not to join him on but this was the …

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SS1000 15 December 2007

This article was originally writen for the PEMC magazine for publicity for the ride. Kevin then posted it much later on the Iron Butt site with comments post-ride.

As some of you know, we lost my younger Brother Steve to prostate cancer at the beginning of September, he was 48. Over the last few months …

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