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Blodwyn Pig:
Just a heads up, there will be a round of BHPC racing at Gravesend Cyclopark, on Sat21 and Sun 22 September. Up the road from me so may pop along.
Tim Hall:
Have you seen the current state of play, as shown on this table?
http://www.bhpc.org.uk/Data/Sites/1/media/events/events19/tables19.html
See how many times the Red Baron is at or near the top of the various classes.
Go Kim. <high five>
Cudzoziemiec:
--- Quote from: Tim Hall on 16 September, 2019, 07:22:12 am ---Have you seen the current state of play, as shown on this table?
http://www.bhpc.org.uk/Data/Sites/1/media/events/events19/tables19.html
See how many times the Red Baron is at or near the top of the various classes.
Go Kim. <high five>
--- End quote ---
How can the Red Baron be both part-faired and unfaired at the same time? Their scoring system is a wonder of geekery. But top in 3 categories – wow!
Kim:
--- Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 16 September, 2019, 08:30:29 am ---How can the Red Baron be both part-faired and unfaired at the same time?
--- End quote ---
Categories overlap as they become more restrictive. So, to attempt an ASCII venn-diagram:
(Open (Part-faired (Unfaired)))
A velomobile would only count as Open, but the Red Baron counts as all three. The idea being to give those on less expensively aero machines / women / juniors / those using spare wheels etc. some fair competition.
Further confusion or possibly enlightenment may be found at http://www.bhpc.org.uk/how-to-race-with-bhpc.aspx
--- Quote ---Their scoring system is a wonder of geekery. But top in 3 categories – wow!
--- End quote ---
Actually four. But since nearly all[1] the women racing this year have been using unfaired machines, the Ladies Part Faired category is currently a bit redundant . Similar story with Street and Sports[2], which appear to have deteriorated into me attempting to get the edge on John Lucian (who is frustratingly faster than me) with superior turning-up tactics. (If anybody spots him at Gravesend, feel free to let his tyres down ;))
Anyway, I now have control of the timing system[3]. Muhahaha.
[1] IIRC Magda Williams hoovered up some points in a Quest at Hillingdon.
[2] At last year's AGM it was suggested that the trophy for Sports should go to whoever was able to explain the difference between Sports and Street. Or possibly the other way round.
[3] It was suffering from a b0rked cable. Is now working.
Cudzoziemiec:
--- Quote from: Kim on 16 September, 2019, 01:12:05 pm ---[2] At last year's AGM it was suggested that the trophy for Sports should go to whoever was able to explain the difference between Sports and Street. Or possibly the other way round.
--- End quote ---
That's easy. Sports is just another category, whereas Street is a category people* don't see because they think "Surely that must be it?"
*Exact number to be determined but more than zero.
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