T.V. coverage

 Those of you who were there at the end of The Lincoln races may have noticed a cameraman with some flash equipment taking shots of one or two riders.

He was from the B.B.C. Look North programme - the local news - and you might be pleased to know that the club got a brief showing on the local news on Sunday Evening.

It was also pleasing to note that several people had turned up to watch the races after seeing a piece in a local paper.(Lincolnshire Echo ?)

I wonder if the same sort of publicity should be tried more often. There was such talk at the last A.G.M.

Steve Frisby #109 -the slowest of all.

We generally try to avoid these sort of events because we end up being bumped around as a sort of comedy turn. The Curborough one ended up getting too popular with the roadie types so our available room shrank to impractical. This is generally a problem with these crit series events since they are usually working to get as many people in as possible and unless we are involved at the very beginning we end up as a filler.

I am thinking to see if we can get accepted by the CTT (formerly RTTC) at least on a club time trial basis so we could possibly have a chance to play with roadies. As a means of measuring our level of performance and not to draw attention to their outdated machinery of course! It has to be said that this is likely to be a dead loss but you can but try...

I have just been looking at the rules, it simply says "The use of recumbent machines, protective shields, windbreaks or other means of reducing air resistance is prohibited"  It does not attempt to define the word "recumbent".  Would a Giant revive, rans fusion or simular bike which lays in the gray area between recumbent and not recumbent be allowd in a CTT event?  Apparently when Bike-E first came to the market, they claimed their bikes were not recumbent, the word "recumbent" according to www.dictionary.com, means "adj Lying down, especially in a position of comfort or rest; reclining".  I would not call the position on a Bike-E lying down.

antony wrote: when we've looked at making any rule more specific (such as a faired and unfaired class) we've found it impossibly difficult to come up with rules that one couldn't circumvent pretty easily.

Oh I dunno... We haven't had any trouble with Sports Class...