2025 Event 2: Bath - Sunday 11th May

Hi Alan,

I paid on 20th January and received the March magazine so must be on the list somewhere.

I will forward the confirmation email to you.

Regards

Stuart

Sadly my van didn’t get fixed in time to enter so I won’t make it…

Looks like a good Multitrack turnout!!

I think he may be on here somewhere but can’t remember his user name. 

He’s MxHx on Facebook. 

You can’t miss him at Bath. Big chap with a big beard. Races a Festina. 

Times:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/

Photos:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/photos/

Points:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/BHPC_2025.html

Bit of chaos in the first fast race:  Apparently Barney was trusting the LED race clock for when to ring the bell, which would have been fine if, after several years of reliable service, it hadn't chosen that moment to develop a fault in the LED string.  This stopped the left half of the display refreshing properly, turning some numbers into other numbers.  (We've managed to reproduce the fault in test mode, so I know which two of the hundreds of fiddly solder joints to investigate...)

This was compounded by Slash crashing and taking longer than usual to come back round, so the bell was late, and the wrong rider got flagged (which then caused people to stop early).  The times are correct according to what the Babbage Engine saw, which is the best we can do.

Hope the injuries aren't too bad, Steve.

I think we've managed to sort everything else out from video, apart from a couple of missed reads that we don't have video capture for.  I've left the interpolated times in, as they look reasonable.

Yes, it's a cluster****.

Looking at the video, I see a confused looking Barney holding a bell as Nik goes through at race time 33:02.  He starts ringing it as you pass (assuming that you're the leader) at 33:08.  Slash is still in the lead, but doesn't come through until 33:42, and is given a bell rather than a flag.  You then get the flag at 35:14.

What should have happened was Slash getting a bell at 30:38 and a flag at 33:42.  You'd still have got a flag at 35:14, and nobody would have a warm-down lap counted as their final lap.  I think that's probably fairer, so let's do that...

(Did I mention that I hate criteriums?  Fudging the race duration after the fact means that CrossMgr is displaying nonsense at the most critical point of the race.  We wouldn't have this problem with a simple n minute race, which is what the software is designed for.  Also, yes, I need to fix my clock.)