BB1500 Gold 2009 Ride Report

Our target was to ride 1500 miles (=2414 km) in less than 24 hours.

We started from Stockholm on 1.5.2009 at 6:52 in a group of 4 people.

There were other groups starting a the same time, driving different rides than us.

We had planned the ride stop by stop and also attached timetable for it and it looked like this:

Stop	Time	Place	Exit number	Km	Distance from last planned stop
0	7:00	Start: OKQ8		0
1	9:31	Statoil, Jönköping	104	280	280
2	12:14	Rastplats Glumslöv		558	278
3	15:00	Q8, Vissenbjerg	53	828	270
4	16:48	Huttener Berge	7	1020	192
5	18:49	Back – BP	50	1237	217
6	20:45	Huttener Berge	7	1453	216
7	22:40	Shell Vissenbjerg	53	1646	193
8	1:26	Rastplats Glumslöv		1917	271
9	4:13	Statoil, Jönköping	104	2194	277
10	6:56	Finish:OKQ8		2474	280

This was distributed to all our team members, showing the time, place, exit number and kilometers, both cumulative and from the last planned stop. Four stops were not marked and these were the two bridge tolls on both ways, Oresundbro and Storebelt bridges as these were mandatory stops and we only stopped to pay the toll and then continued.

We followed above plan pretty much until our turning point where we noticed that we were almost an hour ahead of schedule and decided to consume this on the way back during the night hours.

Only real differences started after original planned stop 8 – Rastplats Glumslöv – after which temperature dropped down to –2 Celsius and we had to take an extra stop at Ljungby to warm up. This forced us to abandon the stop 9 at Jönköping and take alternative stop in Ödeshög because of this.

We drove nearly 500 kilometers in temperatures below 0 Celsius, I was the lucky one since I had Gerbing heated jacked powered from my bike 12V, but even I was feeling the coldness during the ride.

Our final ride table looks like this:

Stop	Location	Time	Miles	Km	Gas	L/100km
0	Stockholm	6:52		0
1	Gränna	9:22	172.3	277	16.33	5.89
2	Glumslöv	11:53	171.4	276	15.96	5.79
3	Oresundbro (toll bridge)	12:38	38.22	62
4	Storebelt (toll bridge)	13:47	81.31	131
5	Vissenbjerg	14:30	39.61	64	16.36	4.38
6	Alt Duvenstedt	16:15	119.02	192	11.72	6.12
7	Schwarmstedt	18:06	133.81	215	13.44	6.24
8	Alt Duvenstedt	20:11	134.08	216	14.37	6.66
9	Vissenbjerg	21:48	118.89	191	12.37	6.47
10	Storebelt (toll bridge)	22:49	39.83	64
11	Oresundbro (toll bridge)	23:59	81.44	131
12	Glumslöv	0:45	38.2	61	16.02	4.27
13	Ljungby	2:05	81.43	131	8.41	6.42
14	Ödeshög	3:59	108.38	174	10.63	6.09
15	Stockholm	6:21	154.52	249	16.26	6.54
	Total	23:29	1512.44	2434	151.87	6.24