Author Topic: [HAMR] Board name change  (Read 8314 times)

rogerzilla

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[HAMR] Board name change
« on: 19 January, 2016, 08:28:29 pm »
It's not Tommy Godwin's record any more, nor is it 2015, so I've changed the board name to something more appropriate.  I'm not sure HAMR existed as a recognised feat when we started; the UMCA ratified it a little later.  I refuse to put that silly apostrophe between the M and R, though  :P
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #1 on: 19 January, 2016, 08:37:07 pm »
Surely it should be HAMR time, complete with the funny sideways walk!
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rogerzilla

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #2 on: 19 January, 2016, 08:39:52 pm »
I don't think those baggy loons are suitable for cycling.
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #3 on: 19 January, 2016, 08:41:07 pm »
Good for cleaning the chain, I'd guess.
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #4 on: 19 January, 2016, 09:26:05 pm »
Surely it should be HAMR time
All I can see in that expression is Happy Hour....but I guess that's just me!
Anyway.....things change all the time, and [FWIW] I think it's an appropriate move.
It's respectful.
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #5 on: 19 January, 2016, 11:11:18 pm »
I think it would be much more appropriate to call it "Highest Annual Recorded Mileage".
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clarion

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #6 on: 19 January, 2016, 11:14:18 pm »
Of course,  Kajsa Tylen is not riding the HAMRM
Getting there...

Re: Board name change
« Reply #7 on: 20 January, 2016, 08:39:29 am »
Nor is Bruce Berkeley

Re: Board name change
« Reply #8 on: 20 January, 2016, 10:01:40 am »
But Kajsa and Bruce are making attempts on 'highest annual mileage' records, even if not the UMCA(tm) HAM'R(tm) ...

Re: Board name change
« Reply #9 on: 20 January, 2016, 10:20:47 am »
So, the board name should really have an s on the end, shouldn't it?

Re: Board name change
« Reply #10 on: 20 January, 2016, 10:21:48 am »
But Kajsa and Bruce are making attempts on 'highest annual mileage' records, even if not the UMCA(tm) HAM'R(tm) ...

What is Steve doing...?

Re: Board name change
« Reply #11 on: 20 January, 2016, 11:10:46 am »
But Kajsa and Bruce are making attempts on 'highest annual mileage' records, even if not the UMCA(tm) HAM'R(tm) ...

What is Steve doing...?


I think without a doubt will exceed his first ywars mileage and am sure that is what he is chasing  (at the very least )  It will also show just how many miles he can pack in during the long hot days of summer.  As we can all recall he intended to ride some 240 to 280 miles per day but had not recovered sufficiently to do so from his ankle injury. Watch this space as they say!

Re: Board name change
« Reply #12 on: 20 January, 2016, 11:33:47 am »
I'm sorry, but I think that just "Highest Annual Mileage" would be best. Abbreviated, possibly.  ;D

Re: Board name change
« Reply #13 on: 20 January, 2016, 12:22:24 pm »
“The sub forum covering the progress of those cyclists who are attempting to ride a long distance in one year.”

Re: Board name change
« Reply #14 on: 20 January, 2016, 12:27:42 pm »
I don't think it should be in the Audax board.
They're racing, surely.

T42

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #15 on: 20 January, 2016, 01:16:55 pm »
^^^Record-chasing? Indeed.
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #16 on: 20 January, 2016, 01:31:13 pm »
I don't think it should be in the Audax board.
They're racing, surely.

Completing a minimum distance (76076 miles now) within a prescribed time limit? Sounds more like Audax than racing to me.

Truth is it's somewhere between racing and Audax, whichever forum you put it in someone will disagree with the decision. To me it fits more with the spirit of long distance cycling (even Kurt's approach) than it does with racing.
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crowriver

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #17 on: 20 January, 2016, 01:46:39 pm »
Surely "One Year Time Trial" is more succinct?
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #18 on: 20 January, 2016, 03:16:52 pm »
I don't think it should be in the Audax board.
They're racing, surely.

Completing a minimum distance (76076 miles now) within a prescribed time limit? Sounds more like Audax than racing to me.

Going as far as you can within a set time sounds a lot more like a race.


CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #19 on: 20 January, 2016, 03:38:13 pm »
I don't think it should be in the Audax board.
They're racing, surely.

Completing a minimum distance (76076 miles now) within a prescribed time limit? Sounds more like Audax than racing to me.

Going as far as you can within a set time sounds a lot more like a race.

Good point but I always feel race has some connotation of urgency and it is difficult to see something lasting a year as having that sense of urgency.  Audax is mostly about competing with oneself which I think is the main outcome of riding as far as you can in the year
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #20 on: 20 January, 2016, 03:49:44 pm »
I agree that it's closer to a race than anything else; however, the most interested demographic is almost certainly the one that regularly visits the Audax board.

[I'm really not bothered either way.]
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Re: Board name change
« Reply #21 on: 20 January, 2016, 05:19:48 pm »
It's mile-accumulating. There are lots of people who do this in their own way but never race or take part in an audax. Auntie Helen OTP is a pretty accomplished mile accumulator but, so far as I know, does not enter races nor audax.
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mattc

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #22 on: 20 January, 2016, 05:43:21 pm »
It's mile-accumulating. There are lots of people who do this in their own way but never race or take part in an audax. Auntie Helen OTP is a pretty accomplished mile accumulator but, so far as I know, does not enter races nor audax.
Sorry;  is there a Mile-Accumulating board that I havent spotted yet?
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Wowbagger

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #23 on: 20 January, 2016, 05:48:32 pm »
It's mile-accumulating. There are lots of people who do this in their own way but never race or take part in an audax. Auntie Helen OTP is a pretty accomplished mile accumulator but, so far as I know, does not enter races nor audax.
Sorry;  is there a Mile-Accumulating board that I havent spotted yet?

Not yet, but it isn't audax and, since we are all pedants here, then clearly the HAM thread should not be here. It could just be under "rides & touring". It has at least as much in common with touring as it does other stuff (long rides at a measured pace, cafés, hotels).
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mattc

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Re: Board name change
« Reply #24 on: 20 January, 2016, 06:01:19 pm »
OK, so Wowbagger votes for
"Rides and Touring".
I guess thats his choice! I expect I'll find it in there if I need to.

(incidentally I'm not much of a pedant, more of a Somebody Is Wrong On The Internet kinda guy. )
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No.11  Because of the great host of those who dislike the least appearance of "swank " when they travel the roads and lanes. - From Kuklos' 39 Articles