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The future of TTing doesn't depend on people having ideas of what somebody else should do, it depends on their getting off their arses and implementing them.
Absolutely correct!
I feel part of the problem is that many race organisers have become too old to carry on, but not enough middle aged people have come forward to replace them.
clubman-
many race organisers have become too old to carry on, but not enough middle aged people have come forward to replace them.
This is certainly true. What are those middle aged people doing instead?
Mainly they are still riding, until they are older than in the past, some doing TTs but most are doing more of other types of cycling, from crits to ultras. TTs just have less of a share of the overall cycling scene than they used to.
frank9755
The prize money and aero disadvantage is irrelevant to the 95% of testers who wouldn't get a sniff of the prizes even if they were as aero-optimised as the hitters.
If TTing wants to make the psychological experience that of a park run, it needs to emphasise that it doesn't matter what you ride because you're racing against yourself, not anybody else.
Also, I'm old. TTing has been variously booming and busting the entire 40 years I've been doing it, and the 30 years my dad was doing it before he first took me with him to an evening 10. It will continue, for where two or three are gathered together (one to ride, one to operate the watch) in its name, there it is in the midst of them.
No, you put it on. There's nothing in the regulations to stop you. The future of TTing doesn't depend on people having ideas of what somebody else should do, it depends on their getting off their arses and implementing them.