Are chicanes the answer?
This was a joke by the way.
Posted 13 June 2012 - 15:23
Are chicanes the answer?
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 16:33
Posted 13 June 2012 - 16:56
This was a joke by the way.
Posted 13 June 2012 - 17:03
Posted 13 June 2012 - 17:41
The Ulster takes place in the wet, NW200 too, (as long as a bike dosnt shat itself & leave a dirty great oil slick spread around a few hundred yards of the course!!)
Re the Senior race if it was too wet & some riders did not fancy racing they did not have to race, were all competitors consulted?
I bet many would have ridden?
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 21:43
It was only wet between the mountain mile and the 33rd milestone Graham, which made the tyre choice apparently unsolvable.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 06:14
Don't anyone be under the false illusion all is well at the NW200 re. racing in the wet!
We were fortunate this year with a full program thanks to dry roads. Cast your minds back to 2011 - a debacle due to an oil spill and wet roads. Also remember 2009 - last two races of the day cancelled due to wet roads!
In this modern day litigation mad society, organisers are s**t scared of running a race when the conditions are questioned by no matter how small a minority. God forbid there should be a tradgedy if running a race in questionable conditions, whoever made the call can envisage himself being hauled before a coroner and asked "why did you give the go ahead in the face of contrary advice from the experienced Mr Whoever?"
The situation can only get worse now. Having set a precedent for cancelling a race due to inclement weather, the legal boffins could tear apart anyone from here on who would dare run a race in similar conditions. "......so why when unsafe to run in 2012 was this race run in 20?? which resulted in the tragic loss of Mr ????"
It's a very sad state of affairs, and I just wish we could find a simple workable solution.
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I was registered as a marshal, accomm sorted and airfares booked Gra, but spent most of April in the Royal Perth coronary ward with ventricular tachycardia (racing heartbeat) and three catheter ablations and a pacemaker later, am still not sorted.
Doctors weren't interested in the flying at all as my situation was far from stabilised at TT time.
Existing on some nasty, toxic medication called Mexiletine, which is only used in Canada because of the gruesome side-effects...
Still ticking though, son !
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