Worlds v Cyclevision

According to former chairman Ben Wichers Schreur the scheme is as follows:

Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, Switzerland all in a certain order.  For some years several countries did not take their turn, the Switzerland venue was changed to Austria for example.

http://www.bhpc.org.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3395&KW=sorted&PID=34098&title=worlds-2010#34098

It would have been the first year without a WC otherwise.

If organizers want to organize an event there are some “regulations” such as a shared meal on one of the nights and at least one street race. Preferably the organization will fix a date during summer holidays, so that people from abroad can take it into account while planning their holidays.

(in france there were shared meals every evening, but everybody can do as they like it). These rules are not strict, during the WC in Belgium all races were at the race track.

We (editorial team of ligfiets.net and the dutch NVHPV club)  do traditionally support these initiatives actively with

-          Possibility to rent our timing equipment and people who know about recumbent racing such as rules and regulations.

-          Registration via the website www.ligfiets.net

-          Multiple news items and editorial pieces on the event

We furthermore do not use a classification such as European championship or something like that for Cycle Vision. That was a question from the whpva organization.  So we do not do this.

This year there were not much competitors from France, and also some well known names from the UK missed out on our event.

Some people were worried about competitor numbers at Cycle Vision, one week before the closing date there were  “only” 70 participants. Because there was little time between the two there was some cannibalism on participants. In the end about 160 people rode one or more races during Cycle Vision . This was less than last year in Tilburg  when we had the WC. Shared meals, camp site and breakfast was popular. We had about 200 people camping who stayed in total 340 nights,

 70 people joining in on breakfast and 90 people eating on Saturday evening (70 meals were served on Friday).

Out event has a good venue, but the outside track was in very bad condition for 4 years. So some streamliners did not enjoy it. But the track has a new surface now, which was only 2 weeks old when we used it.

Also, there were complaints on the exception of streamliners in the velodrome. This rule was formed on the basis of the experience of our german racers who claimed it was not possible. However, the dutch racing committee tried it for a season to allow fully faired bikes and there were no problems with it. Altough, during Cycle Vision it could be a little busy, so next year we plan on other races for uf,ff,pf separately (and also make the velodrome race rules in several languages).

Next year I heard the Swiss want to organize a WC. That would be nice!