CrAcKpOt

[rob]

Nah, I'll just go back to doing it as a DIY... I walk alone...

Good Riddance.....or have the time of your life

[GPS]

Nah, I'll just go back to doing it as a DIY... I walk alone...

Why not offer your services for a route check ?

[hippy]

Nah, I'll just go back to doing it as a DIY... I walk alone...

Why not offer your services for a route check ?

Not a bad idea. Is there a planned one before this or is it just a case of riding and sending notes back to the org?

Bear in mind, I only use GPS, I don't use paper whatsit thingiebobs so I may be useless for this?

I'm still waiting for the bloody CTT calendar to come out to pick 12hr races before committing to anything next year. Maybe I can schedule it early.

[rob]

I'm still waiting for the bloody CTT calendar to come out to pick 12hr races before committing to anything next year. Maybe I can schedule it early.

23rd Aug - National 12hr - Cheshire course + Welsh 12hr (no idea why the clash....)
6th Sep - Kent CA

I suspect no Newbury and I think the Yorkshire event is also disappearing.   Not sure on the Breckland and the ECCA.

[hippy]

I'm still waiting for the bloody CTT calendar to come out to pick 12hr races before committing to anything next year. Maybe I can schedule it early.

23rd Aug - National 12hr - Cheshire course + Welsh 12hr (no idea why the clash....)
6th Sep - Kent CA

I suspect no Newbury and I think the Yorkshire event is also disappearing.   Not sure on the Breckland and the ECCA.

Cheers, how'd you find those out? Did you go direct to the district or something? Or do you have a draft handbook?

Chesire is probably the fastest of those after Breckland I guess?

[rob]

I'm still waiting for the bloody CTT calendar to come out to pick 12hr races before committing to anything next year. Maybe I can schedule it early.

23rd Aug - National 12hr - Cheshire course + Welsh 12hr (no idea why the clash....)
6th Sep - Kent CA

I suspect no Newbury and I think the Yorkshire event is also disappearing.   Not sure on the Breckland and the ECCA.

Cheers, how'd you find those out? Did you go direct to the district or something? Or do you have a draft handbook?

Chesire is probably the fastest of those after Breckland I guess?

There's a thread on the TT forum, but you can often get dates early if you go to the individual district website.  I've not ridden the Cheshire but it shares roads and organisers with the 24hr so quick-ish with the odd hill.   Breckland definitely the fastest as the ECCA is now a bit more sporting with only the first 80 miles on the E2.

[Karla]

The Yorkshire event is being resurrected, under new management and on a different course.

[hippy]

The Yorkshire event is being resurrected, under new management and on a different course.

Is it likely to be a flat, fast course? Any idea of date? and maybe this chat should go over to Racing thread?

Crackpot Tester Ride: April is gonna be wet(ter) and miserable(er) isn't it?

[GPS]

A route check would need to be within two weeks of the calendar ride for the rider to be validated as a rider on the event (as far as I’m aware anyway).

You could always ride it in April, but it’d have to be a DIY perm in that case.

[vistaed]

Time to think about next year and seems crackpot hits the sweet spot for me in terms of timing and getting the training in. And I don't really know Wessex that well by bike so a good way to explore it.

[hippy]

A route check would need to be within two weeks of the calendar ride for the rider to be validated as a rider on the event (as far as I’m aware anyway).
You could always ride it in April, but it’d have to be a DIY perm in that case.

It was always going to be a DIY as I didn't expect it to be a calendar event. Is there any advantage to doing it within the 2 week window? What does being validated on the event get me compared to riding it, say, 3 weeks out. Would it then allow the 1000k to count towards Brevet 10000-esque awards or similar? I definitely can't do it the weekend after but perhaps the two weekends before it would be possible (and make sense from a route check point of view).

[andyp]

It was always going to be a DIY as I didn't expect it to be a calendar event. Is there any advantage to doing it within the 2 week window? What does being validated on the event get me compared to riding it, say, 3 weeks out. Would it then allow the 1000k to count towards Brevet 10000-esque awards or similar? I definitely can't do it the weekend after but perhaps the two weekends before it would be possible (and make sense from a route check point of view).

you need to liaise with Shawn, but I understand that he's recrafting the route a little to take account of the passage of time, new control possibilities, and traffic volumes, so if he wanted a route check you would get the new and improved gpx file to follow.

[Ajax Bay]

A route check would need to be within two weeks of the calendar ride for the rider to be validated as a rider on the event (as far as I’m aware anyway).
You could always ride it in April, but it’d have to be a DIY perm in that case.

Is there any advantage to doing it within the 2 week window? What does being validated on the event get me compared to riding it, say, 3 weeks out. Would it then allow the 1000k to count towards Brevet 10000-esque awards or similar?

Advantage: The ten points would be calendar events points not DIY points, depending on your remotest interest in 'points'
AUK Reg 7.2.1 "Further Event Classifications:(b) Organisers of calendar events and their helpers may ride their own event(s) up to 15 days in advance or 7 days after the scheduled event date and be included in the event results."
Yes - if you ride the calendar (BRM) event route in support of the organiser (eg route check) then your ride can be homologated as a BRM, which one could count towards (say) ACP10k award. A DIY would only be BR, which would be fine for all the AUK Brevet type awards (and others) but couldn't be used for the ACP ones (5k and 10k).
HTH

[Ivan]

Note that BRM helper rides can only be done up to 14 days before the event and not afterwards, but suspect there is some confusion about this and in fact rides might validated when done within the larger AUK BR time frame.