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Weather I think put the dampers on last week. Should be better this week. Lets get a few more out its all good fun see you there. As usual if anybody wants to marshal much appreciated. Usual start time 7pm.

ill marshal again!

^^ cheers harry!

Nice one Harry

lift please, but I can bike it their if not

Ill get ya. Need to go via Cult racing re your wheel. So will need to be a bit earlier than last time. Is that ok.

Hello everybody, I'm a new member of Beacon and I want to join to this event ( it will be the first TT ), it's enough to be there tomorow or I need to make a subscription somehow?
Thank you,
Johnny.

Johnny wrote:Hello everybody, I'm a new member of Beacon and I want to join to this event ( it will be the first TT ), it's enough to be there tomorow or I need to make a subscription somehow?
Thank you,
Johnny.

All you need to do is turn up 15-20 minutes before the start (more if you want to have a practice lap of the course first) and pay £3 to enter. Looks like it's going to be a nice evening, so perfect timing for your first time trial.

Think i'll give this a go

Thank you for your answer Laurence.
One more question, I have to come by car , where I can let it in the area? Looking on map it's not much room for parking a car.
Thanks again.

Most people park on Umberslade Road: http://goo.gl/maps/jmqmg. If you keep going until you cross the course at Tithe Barn Road, you can pull in on the left, here: http://goo.gl/maps/eo11m.

Thanks to Harry for marshalling & Bob for timekeeping.

big thanks to everyone involved in organizing and running this tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Great little course. Thanks everyone.

Great event tonight. A little bit of a headwind on the fast bit I think. Bob I think you are a fully fledged time keeper now. Nice one.
Results

1st Chris Hudson 21:55
2nd Steve Bull 21:59
3rd Martin McGowan 22:20
4th Rhys Richards 23:30
5th Phil Field 23:39
6th Gary Price 23:53
7th Phil Richards 24:23
8th Gavin Giles 24:26
9th Lawrence Cooley 24:33
10th Andy Craddock 24:38
11th Alistair Hey 25:07
12th Phil Gameson 25:11
13th Brian Botfield 25:50
14th Ruth Blacker 26:15
15th Neil Orchard 26:19
16th Richard Kings 26:46
17th Steve Morton 27:26
18th Tim Raynor 27:31
19th Alex Comis 27:59
20th Mursa Ioan 28:57

Great to see new members out. Come back next week and see if you can beat your time.

Cheers, Bob. Alistair, you're not pedalling hard enough if you're enjoying it. I thought it was horrible, but I was pleased to improve my PB by 40 seconds - justified my bike fit the other week.

Great times all, well done

Cheers for all timekeeping and marshalling. Knocked almost a minute of last time, quite pleased with that. Shame I cant make next week

Anyone fancy a century ride to Malvern on Saturday leaving at 9:30??

Well done all, especially Martin - he'll be winning some of these soon! Maybe one of the hilly ones in August?

I'm going to have to get involved with this once I've got my wedding and honeymoon out of the way by July!

Some impressive times at the top end, and some good improvements lower down.

Knocked 47 seconds off my PB. Getting to grips with effort levels / cadence / gear selection. Really please. Thanks to the time keepers and marshalling.

Hi everybody,
Even I was the slowest I enjoyed the ride and I hope the next week I can obtain a more decent time .

My wife taken some pictures, not the best framing, you can download them from the link below ( hop it works):

https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/27 ... 132/96f4d8

Top of the table for Steve Morton and quite a few PB's

K36/4.5C * 2 05-Jun-13
Steve Morton 00:27:26 00:08:55 00:18:31 40
Alistair Hey 00:25:07 00:06:35 00:18:32 39
Rhys Richards 00:23:30 00:04:31 00:18:59 38
Gavin Giles 00:24:26 00:05:13 00:19:13 37
Andy Craddock 00:24:38 00:05:24 00:19:14 36
Laurence Cooley 00:24:33 00:05:13 00:19:20 35
Martin McGowan 00:22:20 00:02:40 00:19:40 34
Phil Richards 00:24:23 00:04:38 00:19:45 33
Phil Gameson 00:25:11 00:05:18 00:19:53 32
Gary Price 00:23:53 00:04:30 00:20:00 31
Chris Hudson 00:21:55 00:01:50 00:20:05 30
Ruth Blacker 00:26:15 00:05:30 00:20:45 29
Steve Bull 00:21:59 00:01:06 00:20:53 28
Richard Kings 00:26:46 00:05:40 00:21:06 27
Phil Field 00:23:39 00:02:30 00:21:09 26
Neil Orchard 00:26:19 00:04:30 00:21:49 25
Brian Botfield 00:25:50 00:03:19 00:22:31 24
Tim Raynor 00:27:31 00:04:30 00:23:01 23
Alex Comis 00:27:59 00:04:30 00:23:29 22
Mursa Ioan 00:28:57 00:04:30 00:24:27 21

Simon im not really complaining but any chance you could explain what all the adjustments mean? A link will do

Piccys were ok thank you fr taking them.

Andy_Craddock wrote:Simon im not really complaining but any chance you could explain what all the adjustments mean? A link will do

Those are the handicap times, Andy. See here.

laurence_cooley wrote:

Andy_Craddock wrote:Simon im not really complaining but any chance you could explain what all the adjustments mean? A link will do

Those are the handicap times, Andy. See here.

Cheers for that

Gutted I cant make this week as its the last one on the course. Wish they would allow my time recorded on my garmin. Im going to do the course Wednesday daytime as got to look after younger brother on the night.

Hopefully wont miss many more this year, going to try and get to the 20 mile course and do a reccy before the actual race there.

Andy,
By coincidence just updating the hasndicap rules so the full details can be understood. In overview the system works as follows;

Each course is given a base time. For the K36 4.5*2 this is 20 minutes. If a rider has ridden the course before, their handicap (aka adjustment) will be the difference between their PB and 20 minutes. For example in your case your handicap on this course is now 4-38 based on your ride on 5 June of 24-38. If for example next time you ride on the course you record a 24-00 time your handicap time will be 19-22, and your handicap for the ride after that will reduce to 4-00.

When riding the course for the first time the rider will either be given a handicap based on estimation from rides on similar courses if they have taken part in a few time trials or given a standard handicap. These standard handicap times are shown on the link Laurence kindly posted under base times. When using a standard handicap the adjusted time is restricted to a minimum ofthe base time for the course - this is so a new strong rider cannot unduly benefit from a handicap before their capabilities are better known to try and keep balance across the scores.

Overall the system is designed to reward the most improving riders although there is some subjectivity if a rider has not previously ridden a particular course.

Hope that helps but please let me know if you have any questions.

Best, Simon