This is the 46th annual running of the April Fool's Gimmick Rallye!

Gimmick Rallye in the Santa Rosa area: NEXT EVENT: Sunday March 28th
http://www.therallyeclub.org/pdfs/20...AprilFools.pdf
http://www.therallyeclub.org/calendar.htm

Looking forward to seeing a few of you there next weekend.

Jane

 

I'm looking forward to it. It was good to see you last night.

 

Bummer, I'll be in Tahoe that weekend.

The last Gimmick that I did was a TON of fun!

 

Cancel, Andy, cancel!

 

Who was it that was looking for a co-driver? I may do that since Andy's going to be gone. I may have my great aunt coming that weekend too though so I'll have to see what that's going to entail before completely committing.

-Brian

 

Aw, my old stomping grounds.

 

Hey Brian, if worse comes to worse and you can't find a driver/co-driver, you are definitely welcome to ride with Julie and I. Being total noobs, we could use the extra co-driver.

Also, here is another link to the Rallye homepage. I couldn't get your first link to work, Jane.

http://www.sonic.net/~thebeard/

 

Also if you go to this link http://www.therallyeclub.org/calendar.htm and then click on "April Fools" just to the right of the of the date "Sunday March 28, 2010" it will take you to the flyer with all the info on the rallye.

See you there!

Jane

 

I'm up for this, I could use a co-driver though. Anyone?

 

Again, I may be interested in co-driving with someone. It all depends on the family situation though as my great aunt is coming into town to see our 4 month old baby that weekend. If I can sneak away for a few hours I will definitely co-drive for someone. earthcrisis was the other person looking for a co-driver and I may end up co-driving for him but we'll have to see how the family stuff pans out.

-Brian

 

DAMN! I need tires... next year...

:EDIT: Im down to co-drive.

 

^It's not a speed event. Even highly used tires would work!

-Brian

 

Good point. I may have to give it a try. Now I need a co-driver, haha.

 

Do we NEED helmets? Mine has gone missing and im not sure ill be able to get a new one in time for this :/

 

Helmets are not even suggested, this is NOT a speed event, gimmick rallies are nice legal tours in the countryside with sometimes cryptic instructions to follow.

In this case each instruction has an A part and a B part, your job is to figure out which part of the instruction can be done first correctly- (in accordance with the rules and definitions of the rally) follow and record that on your scorecard as you drive along.

There are usually a couple of checkpoints where they may ask additional questions, and you can also do the poker run where you draw cards at checkpoints.

People that are good at this know all of Bob's tricks and will do very well, people who are learning run in a different class than the experts and don't tend to get very many of them right.

Either way, it usually is a very nice drive through some pretty country and a low-key low-cost chance to socialize/compete with other car people.