Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

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skinny

Do the national events have automatic timing yet?
When are we going to see it.

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frank9755 in reply to @skinny

When it's been proven to be reliable - but who knows when that will be.

We use it in our club 10s at Hillingdon, which works well as we can run a line across the road. Manual timing of it, with 50 riders doing 11 laps, would be very hard.
We've had a handful of failed passes in 5 years, so it's proven to work at least as well as a manual TK. But you couldn't run a line across a public road, and I don't think the ones with detection at the side are as reliable.

The system is expensive. CTT could afford it but lots of clubs would struggle: transponders are about £90 each and there's a cost for the box and software too.

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skinny in reply to @frank9755

Yes, that would be impossible at hillingdon manually.

I do wonder about the margins of error though. When events come down to seconds.

Expense is a good point, hence just referencing to national. Would be good to see something coming in, electronic time keeping wise.

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