Newsletter January 2025

Safari Ferg

Safari Ferg, President IBA Ireland
Premier Member

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I hope you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year, with plans for riding lots of miles in 2025.

Following on from the very successful number of Certified Rides (89) and Awards (12) in 2024, we are a month into 2025 and already there have been ten Certified Rides and four awards including several firsts for IBA Ireland including:

  • US Federal Holiday Rides (New Year's Day and Martin Luther King, Jnr. Day)
  • 2 x Coffee Cup Gold 1000 rides (six coffee stops and a town with a coffee related name).
  • A Polar Bera 1000.
  • An Every Brand Rocks – 3 Award (H-D, BMW & Honda),
  • A Mile Eater Platinum Award (40 Certified Rides with at least 10 at Gold/Insanity level).

Some of events available in 2025 are listed below:
IBA Ireland
(further details on the Website, Forum and Face Book (Events)):
  • 15th of Mar RTE #1 – 12 noon at Loughrea Hotel and Spa.
  • 31st of May RTE #2 – 12 noon at The Wytchway Inn, Holycross, Thurles.
  • 28th of Jun – Underground SaddleSore 1000 in Norway (TBC).
  • 2nd of Jul – Memorial Ride for the 25th Anniversary of the death of Joey Dunlop MBE, Talinn, Estonia.
  • 26th of Jul RTE #3 – 12 noon at The Glenavon Hotel, Cookstown.
  • 6th of Sep – 12 hour, Celtic Rally – Dragon Edition in Wales.
  • 1st of Nov RTE #4 – 12 noon at The Roost, Maynooth.

IBA UK:
Various RTEs are added throughout the year, keep checking their forum at https://forum.ironbutt.org/index.php?forums/uk-rides-to-eat.90/

IBA Benelux (aka Europe):
Ride 2 Eat (R2E) theme this year is Enclaves/Exclaves, as follows:



FIM Touring Section:
Calendar https://www.fim-touring.com/calendar.


IBA USA – Rides of the Month
The bulk of which can be ridden outside the USA https://ironbutt.com/themerides/rotm/.

Looking forward to meeting up with some of you during 2025.
 

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