Why aren't you buzzing then?
I think my buzzer is broken,
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Yep I'm pressing, but no Buzzz, but I have changed my mind on something, it's 742 not 831.
Is that a distinct 831 riders? I believe some idiots have done it more than once.
Its a complicated set of rules in AUK, and sometimes end-up-being more catholic than the pope.
So perhaps for clarity, there have been 742 finishers in the past decade,
PBP years in
BOLD2000 51
2001 57
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2002 22
2003 792004 41
2005 58
2006 44
2007 1152008 74
2009 75
2010 101
2011 133--------------------------
Any way up, I can only recall having to "split" the finishers into BR and BRM in any specific BRM year. And that being 1 in 2007, and 2 in 2011.
Other years may have been BRM, but if they were - everyone finished within the 40hrs.
And years that were BR, riders stayed out getting Max VFM, and not coming back until much later.
I think the crux of this is, there's very little evidence that removing the BR fallback on a BRM event. Last year the riders were both about an hour outside the BRM time - which would have equated to spending nine minutes less at every control.
It's the controls that cost you lost time.
Please also remember folks, that this new rule applies to all BRM events. So the effect on (say) a 214km BRM event would be even more pronounced.