The first Arran 200 falls foul of the "riding the same road in the same direction more than once" rule.
Believe it or not, no such rule exists. YACF folk-law.
I think it's an over-interpretation of Regulation 9.8.2 (b).
https://www.audax.uk/media/1806/auk_regulations_050418.pdf
"A route may visit a control more than once, but routes consisting of repeated passes over the
same circuit will not normally be approved."
It's possible the wording of that regulation was different in the past, and the wording may have previously been more along the lines of the accepted lore, but has now been simplified / clarified to make the intention of the regulation more plain.
When I rode the Mull one I had a mini panic about the middle road and went the long way round to avoid double passing. when I mentioned it to the DIY orgaqnizer I got an e-mail back which included "You are allowed to ride the same road twice in the same direction, it’s continuous loops, ie. multiple laps, that’s banned.".
If you setup them up as "proper" perms, remember to create a badge for them as well - the whole world will want to ride then!
As IanDG pointed out when I wondered aloud about the lack of a perm on the Western Isles chain for his end to end, theres no where on Vatersay to control.
Some of these may be possible to define with real controls however in reality unless Perms are changed so that validation by GPS is available without it also having to be validatable by paper proof of passage... basically perms in much of Scotland are fucked,
What's more a significant portion of Teuchterland ATMs don't print the location on receipts either as Notemachine run the machines stationed in Scotmid Co-Ops.
However a badge is not a bad idea and one I've already been ponderiung
Provided I could get some form of computer based proof of what a DIY was and tie it up with the DIY on a riders result list it's doable.
This got me thinking about if this would be possible on a Dutch island.
Texel is the biggest of the Waden Islands, best I can come up with is a 100km:
https://www.strava.com/routes/22238153
I'm wondering if it would be possible to do it as a 200 by basically doing it in one direction, then doing it in the reverse...
J
You may notice on interrogating some of the routes above that I have essentially done a loop in one direction then used a bit more of the road network to reverse it.
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