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[Closed] Dirty Reiver, I am in, that was stressful.

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 zap
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after setting alarms, 25 minutes and spinning wheels and page reloads, managed to get in. nearly 2 years in the planning. well chuffed.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 8:32 am
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Still trying to get my tickets 🙁

I'm stuck on the entry screen. Put me and the Wife's details in, but it won't let me progress!


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 8:45 am
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I got stuck there too for a while but it eventually let me progress and pay.

Now just to decide on tyre choice...


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 8:47 am
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I'm just clicking the book event button at the bottom. I get the loading circle for half a second then it does nothing...

I'll keep trying a praying! Missed the 200 last year, booked the 130 then ended up being ill so I couldn't make it lol.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 8:50 am
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500 Server Error


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:02 am
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I'm getting a mix of that, not being able to progress due to the t-shirt sizes being an invalid choice and now it's a blank screen.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:06 am
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It's back, I have an eMail receipt...


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:12 am
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Just getting a blank screen now. This is a bit annoying...


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:17 am
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I'm not able to get past the entry screen, it seems to just freeze. Do entries normally sell out quickly or is it worth trying again later on?


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:27 am
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The 200 sold out fairly quickly last year 🙁 I'm in the same boat.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:28 am
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4 of 4 in my group got in, one of them only got through a few mins ago.

Keep trying.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:33 am
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Right, managed it. I found that any gaps in data fields caused a problem (in my case it was leaving a gap in a phone number).


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:38 am
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Can't even get the page to load in Chrome. Got the form filled in Edge, but button just isn't working to book it 🙁


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:41 am
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Used Firefox, having disabled the privacy software and it worked first time


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:51 am
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Those who got in: do you just have to keep spamming the big red "book event" button? It's a shambles.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 9:58 am
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Registered, signed up, booked camping, stress free pleased to say, just an expensive weekend as signed up for the Dorset Dash Yesterday as well.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:07 am
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Cleared cache, still didn't work with 2 entries. Tried with one entry and it went through. Now trying to get my missus an entry and it's playing up again...

They're getting a bit shirty on Facebook telling people they're not "tech savvy" and someone is working on it.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:09 am
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Quicker and less stressful just to download Firefox and entered no problem. Didn't even have to fiddle about with privacy settings.

Cheers djFlex.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:10 am
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Tried Firefox, Chrome and Edge. All stopping at the same point now, get a loading circle on the book now button for half a second then nothing happens.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:16 am
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Missus eventually got through on her laptop! She just kept trying and it finally progressed.

I suspect most of the fixes tried were just coincidence and it's just the luck of the refresh 🙁


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:24 am
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Looking at booking the camping, but you canny book for just the Friday night! So £20 for one nights stay... 😩


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 10:26 am
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We've hired a self-contained camper, but it looks like the camper pitches aren't on the booking page 🙁

All I can see is the tent options.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 11:00 am
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K1100t, it's been 2 nights min at the campsite for a few years. I rationalise it that you're paying for the convenience of being able to occupy your pitch until 5 or 6 o'clock on the Saturday evening, and take your tent down at your leisure. Rather that than a mad scramble pre-breakfast.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 11:29 am
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All the hard standing pitches for camper vans sold out by 9am.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 12:35 pm
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Haha, typical 🙂

Guess I should have booked that first! Might have to live on the car park then.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 2:53 pm
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The 200 has sold out already!


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 3:23 pm
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Doesn't surprise me at all. We took our time last year then went to buy a ticket thinking we had loads of time...


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 3:49 pm
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Yup, they've done a good job promoting it. I managed to get it to work first time this morning. Although I don't remember a T-shirt size option like what is being mentioned on Facebook.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 3:56 pm
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@sboardman

Mmmnn me too.


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 4:49 pm
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I'm in for the 200 and have the camping booked - now I just need a bike...


 
Posted : 01/12/2019 8:07 pm
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Dang I wanted to do it again next year. I don't remember a rush to sign up last year?!


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 10:55 am
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Surprised how quickly it's selling out now - is it just down to the anticipation of it selling out? In the past I've waited weeks before signing up. Quite fancied doing it as well.


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 10:57 am
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they were using a commodore 64 as a server....


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 11:34 am
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Can't believe the 200 and the 130 gone already!

Will they get shirty if i buy a 65 entry and just do the 200? I don't recall anyone on the route last year checking?


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 12:22 pm
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Brilliant event....

So well managed and supported.

I enjoyed my one time go at it, fabulous place 👍


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 12:50 pm
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Was going to camp as the plan was to come on my own. Now wifey wants to come and has booked a £330 water side lodge and apparently I am paying for.


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 2:03 pm
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@crimsondynamo I get the reasoning, and thinking about it critically, it's a good fall back to have. Was just planning on finishing, jumping in the cart and driving a couple of hours to my brothers and kipping there. I suppose this gives me the option of just crashing if I'm totally wasted.


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 3:43 pm
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Will they get shirty if i buy a 65 entry and just do the 200? I don’t recall anyone on the route last year checking?

Think that falls under 'Breach of Rule #1', to be honest.

And people were checking last year. I was one of them...


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 3:49 pm
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2 mates got in but I didn't after all the glitches, so I'm just going for a ride in the forest with a load of other people who signed up for an event!!


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 4:36 pm
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@robbie can you maybe see if you can get on the reserve list for the 200? If there are any withdrawals then you'll get a place?

I'd suggest that it's pretty poor form just to do it without entering. If too many people try that then it screws up the logistics.


 
Posted : 02/12/2019 8:39 pm
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I’d suggest that it’s pretty poor form just to do it without entering. If too many people try that then it screws up the logistics.

You put it more eloquently than I did...


 
Posted : 03/12/2019 11:48 am
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Does the 65 get booked up? Might be enough for me!


 
Posted : 03/12/2019 12:04 pm
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So the inevitable email has just landed...

Dirty Reiver ** Postponed **

No word on the new date yet.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 6:03 pm
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Yeah I'm a bit gutted - had put lots of effort into getting fit enough to do the 200k and was really looking forward to it - but it's the right thing to do and saves us having to make our own judgment calls.


 
Posted : 16/03/2020 8:24 pm

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