Street Class and other class issues

GeoffBird wrote: Antony wrote "Blimey, it seems I've agreed with Geoff." Careful, Antony, it's getting a dangerously regular occurrence.

Sorry, I'll try to avoid it in future.

KevinJ wrote: It does not seem unresasonable to me that a person selects one (class), in each of (the machine- and rider-specific groups of classes) that they wish to complete in and that is selected at registration time.  That way super fit lady arm cyclist on a sports bike doesn't win ALL the classes.  this would make it fairer. ... It would mean a more diverse group of people winning prizes but would mean more people in the class really competing against each other.

If a super fit junior lady arm cyclist on a sports trike wins a race outright, in what way is it fair that she should not take maximum points and silver (plastic?) -ware in open, sports, female, junior, multitrack and arm-powered classes?

She has beaten everyone else in each of those classes; giving maximum points to a runner-up because Ms X has already won one class seems a bit daft.

Having to specify your sole class at registration (when at least some people will not know who, if anyone, else will be in that class) would actually reduce the numbers in every class by removing the overlaps. You could also inadvertently take a "win" by being the last, e.g., multitrack, if the other half dozen multitracks at the race had chosen to race for different classes (either before or after you registered).

A garden! Luxury!!

You should try welding in the hallway.

Andrew S wrote: I'm not clear about what defines Specific classes though. Are they a third dimension (layers), like a Rubik's cube, so there's e.g. a junior/faired/multitrack class, a ladies/faired/multitrack class, etc? Or do they stretch across rows and/or columns? If the latter, is there any a priori logic or is it determined by numbers?

Currently the Specific classes are solely machine based, so can (and do) stretch across all 3 columns (all the Juniors are also Sports class for example), and they can cover two rows - Sports and Multitrack both allow tailfairings which means they can be Unfaired or Partially Faired.

Going back to the table idea the Specific classes  can be visualised as flat ellipses, encompassing all 3 columns and part of one or two rows. I'll do a picture when I run out of excuses for not doing one!

One question, probably for Alan, was it decided to have multitracks in Sports or, since Multitrack is effectively a Sports class in its own right are they separate?