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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.
skinny-
If everyone is timed by the same person the error margin should be pretty similar. Whereas a failure of the electronic timing might mean DNF (unless there's human backup) rather than minute error in time. Just make sure you win by minutes rather than seconds if it bothers you..
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Yes, that would be impossible at hillingdon manually.
They did used to do it manually before we got the system, using an abacus with coloured beads to record the laps for each rider, but we had much smaller fields then!
hippy
frank9755
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.