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I am just trying to find a reference to the 50% rule. I am certain it still exists for the purposes of the distance (points) championships. It used to be in the handbook - but the handbook no longer exists.
"Appendix 13.1.1: For individual points trophies listed under Appendix 13.2.8, the number of points gained from permanent events must not exceed the number of points gained in calendar events."
(We'll gloss over the fact that renumbering means the trophies are no longer actually listed under App 13.2.8 ...)
I think it is about removing the chances of someone just bashing out loads of DIYs and raising suspicion that they are not actually doing them (i.e. there's no visibility).
Trains was the suspicion, I believe.
At least if you've been seen on a shit-load of calendar events, people know you've done a lot of riding.
Basically Mike would ride 1 or 2 200km events every weekend through the winter months and then a 300 and a 200 event as spring comes, before doing a 600km event every weekend in summer. And then he would ride 2 or 3 200km DIYs during the week.
I think his habit was to ride a DIY 200 to most calendar events he did, and then a DIY 200 home again.
(@hippy)
I'm not sure I want to add extra hassle to my TransAm but what would be involved in DIYing it? I recall I'd need to make checkpoints that meet the AUK requirements (every 80-100k?) but I can DIY by GPS right? So I'd not need to do the receipt collection thing I'd just have to show the route and checkpoints and have it validated.
Either plan a route with checkpoints every $reasonableno of km (and then dick around providing a sensible min distance between them, because GoogleMaps isn't working like it used to), or, assuming yet another Roolz amendment gets passed at the AGM, submit a GPX beforehand and then ride it.
This is simpler, but has the disadvantage of confining you to the pre-planned route (obviously you can go foraging in towns, but you might need to provide some proof of the need for diversions if there was a road closure, and you couldn't just decide on a whim that you preferred to go over a mountain rather than round it). Folk would rather validate than not, but you'd lose the freedom to just pick a route between controls on the fly.
What's the point, other than getting a bunch of points for Willesden?
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I am just trying to find a reference to the 50% rule. I am certain it still exists for the purposes of the distance (points) championships. It used to be in the handbook - but the handbook no longer exists.
I think it is about removing the chances of someone just bashing out loads of DIYs and raising suspicion that they are not actually doing them (i.e. there's no visibility).
It does of course mean that someone based in northern scotland is going to have a tough time getting to events and so on to mount a credible campaign.
Looking at Mike's 2014 results, it shows 333 points with 180 being in perms, which means that 'only' 306 points count for the actual championship.
Confused? Me too!
Basically Mike would ride 1 or 2 200km events every weekend through the winter months and then a 300 and a 200 event as spring comes, before doing a 600km event every weekend in summer. And then he would ride 2 or 3 200km DIYs during the week.
It is amazing in it's own way, his story is quite something too (mown down by a coach, huge brain injuries, smashed up hips and legs, in a wheelchair for months - his brain injuries mean he has all sorts of challenges and cycling a lot seems to keep them under control). He's a funny chap and rubs people up the wrong way sometimes - he lacks empathy or self control, so can sometimes come across as a total bragger, but he can't help it, his brain doesn't work like the rest of us! I've spent a couple of years thinking he was a bit of a tosser, but then I have ridden with him and chatted to him more over the last year or so, and he's a decent bloke. I spent some good times with him on PBP drinking coffee in the sunshine and watching the world go by.
Anyway - TransAm as a DIY would be the longest DIY by some margin. A chap called Marcus (good name) rode a 3500km DIY around the UK a few years ago.