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[t.a.]

I've got your special treatment.

[mgrumke]

Here we are the night before Leadbelt 2012 and the course is as ready as.it can be. All we need.now is a few hours sleep, riders to show and rain would a nice thing tonight.
Thanks to all the preriders and their kind words. It makes the work more fun!

Signup opens 7. Or maybe 710ish...:...... Been a long week. See you tomorrow and happy fathers day to all the dads.

[jfp]

For those that want to fill out less forms when they get there.
http://www.usacyclin...der_release.pdf

[mjj29er]

mgrumke, on 16 June 2012 - 05:02 PM, said:

Here we are the night before Leadbelt 2012 and the course is as ready as.it can be. All we need.now is a few hours sleep, riders to show and rain would a nice thing tonight.
Thanks to all the preriders and their kind words. It makes the work more fun!

Signup opens 7. Or maybe 710ish...:...... Been a long week. See you tomorrow and happy fathers day to all the dads.

Looks like you are going to get your rain, Mark.  I'm pretty excited, first race since my bad crash at the BTE last fall!  Maybe now we won't be choking on dust until the 3rd or 4th lap.

[APSBiker]

Results are posted! See them here: http://www.unitedind...m/?page_id=1242

I don't have any guarantees for the posting of updated points, but I'll have them done before the next east race (July 14th, Pfirecracker @ Castlewood!)

[pirt3]

APSBiker, on 19 June 2012 - 10:58 PM, said:

Results are posted! See them here: http://www.unitedind...m/?page_id=1242

I don't have any guarantees for the posting of updated points, but I'll have them done before the next east race (July 14th, Pfirecracker @ Castlewood!)

I'm guessing that the times posted are from our scoring sheets and not Two Guys Scoring. If so, unless Mark took the time to adjust the time on the sheets, the Cat 2/SS times are 3 minutes slower than actual times listed and the Cat 3 times are 4 minutes slower.
The Cat 1 times are accurate

[mgrumke]

Matt took care if us and corrected time for me. I verified back to our manual scores. So posted scores are adjusted.

Thanks again to timing guys, manual score folks and our big toe and leader Larry!

[Grand Master Geezer]

Me and Kent Jones places should be switched, I got 2nd.

[tim]

In Cat 1 40-49, I was second, not third.  The posted times are correct, just the placings are wrong.  Thanks.

[sub-lt]

Thanks again to the volunteers, and the folks who put the results together -- love that they show the times for each lap as well as totals!

Out of curiosity, what exactly were the foam rectangles on the back of our numbers? One of the ladies volunteering told me she understand they were just magnets.  Did these trip a timer when we crossed to help give more accurate times, or were they actually timing chips?

By the way, no one asked for them at the end, and I didn't hear much about them, so mine ended up at home.  Should we bring them to future races, or was this just a throw-away?

Thanks again!
- Todd

[mgrumke]

Paul and Tim, wr will get those errors fixed.

As for scoring process, Struckmann can speak to his process and its capabilities. It is a very impressive system and can take any race with very little help and score it spot on.
We as a club have always scored progressive lap times and posted those for each lap. The Two Scoring Guys system is what allowed the unique lap times to be posted. Super cool stuff!

[mjs]

sub-lt, on 20 June 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Thanks again to the volunteers, and the folks who put the results together -- love that they show the times for each lap as well as totals!

Out of curiosity, what exactly were the foam rectangles on the back of our numbers? One of the ladies volunteering told me she understand they were just magnets.  Did these trip a timer when we crossed to help give more accurate times, or were they actually timing chips?

By the way, no one asked for them at the end, and I didn't hear much about them, so mine ended up at home.  Should we bring them to future races, or was this just a throw-away?

Thanks again!
- Todd

Nope, the chips are disposable, so please recycle them.  We were only collecting chips from the marathon racers and DNF'ers so that they didn't ride past the timing system and accidentally trip extra laps.  We are able to put lap counts in for categories that cause the system to quit reading the chip after it hits the designated number of laps.  Marathon presents a problem in that we never know what the maximum lap count will be and not everyone does the same number of laps, so collecting the chip was the easiest way we could figure out how to do it.

As far as what the rectangle is, it is a RFID transmitter.  Think of it in terms of an airplane and radar.  Our tower has four radar antennae on it, and at a certain distance, the chip appears to the radar.  It tracks the chip repeatedly all the way through the gate.  Now, due to the fact that it shoots a wide pattern, we have to rope off an area around the system to prevent false or early reads.  I think Lee's chip and one other were reading super strong, so we had to increase the no chip area so it wouldn't read them when they went towards the 180 degree turn just before the finish line.

The system will again rear its head at ICC 3-6-12 this weekend, Dirt Crits (8 days away!!!), and the Pfirecracker.  The cool thing about it at Dirt Crits is that if you want to be real geeky, we can show/print your lap times for the entire race.

Matt

[sub-lt]

Thanks for the details -- I'm an electrical engineer and we've looked at RFID systems for projects at work a couple of times (once in-depth about 7 years ago) but at the time prices and technology weren't quite there for what we wanted (probably still aren't, for long-term industrial use, especially around lots of metal like in our plant).  I've been hearing about the timing chips for racing for a couple of years now, and I've been interested in learning more, so it's really cool that you guys are using the systems for mountain bike races now. (The chips are medium-range passive RFID, right? I'd be interested in finding out more about distance ranges and interference sometime.)

I am usually pretty geeky (whether I want to be or not!), but I live too far away for the Thursday-night races, so I'm sorry I'm gonna miss out on seeing more of it at the Dirt Crits.  I plan to be at Pfirecracker though!

Thanks again!

[snacob14]

can I ride this course still even though the race date has passed?? I want to ride some dirt tomorrow