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skinny in reply to @frank9755

I do think the shorter events like this encourage people to push the envelope on sleep dep far more than the TCR-length ones where you have to get into sustainable sleeps.

Agreed and I don't think it's necessarily good for the sport.

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honk in reply to @skinny

I agree, them putting up content on social media celebrating someone who didn't sleep over a 1000km event feels kind of irresponsible.

APN (1000km) had a 3hr minimum sleep period last year which aimed to stop people just trying to ride through, maybe that's a good idea on these shorter events?

Also it just takes one bad thing to happen before the wider news media finds out a guy on a bike crashed who'd not slept for 2 days and look, here's all his tracker info that proves it, this shouldn't be allowed let's ban it.

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hippy in reply to @honk

cough RAAM cough

Yeah, it's supported but the sleep dep is mental and it's not always follow cars, there's leap frogging going on so your rider is still alone for large amounts of time having slept fuck all.

I don't know where I stand - I'm as bad as anyone else with the sleep dep riding but there's people doing the same thing in cars (as well as drunk and drugged and speeding) so in terms of risk, it's still pretty low for anyone other than the rider themselves when you think of overall traffic.

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