What a huge mess! Surely we deserve better. After Barberton there were lots of stories about the timing system having so many mistakes. Word was that it would be sorted out by Sabie. Now the Sabie results are even worse. This is the national series and Sabie was the National Champs and the results are wrong! How can the national governing body accept this ridiculous situation. Amongst our small circle of fiends who rode, there is a woman who is down as a man, a child down as a master another missing altogether and my result puts me finishing 18 minutes before I actually did. My category position should be 9th not 5th. That is just from a small group of riders that I personally know. These people all rode in Barberton so their details are in the data base. This error percentage is about 30%.<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> We have been running events for 20 years. How is it possible to take such a huge step backwards? Entry fees go up to pay for this fancy electronic timing system that doesn?t work. Bring Grev with his tried and proven manual system back at half the price. These guys are not performing. Get rid of them. This new idea of starting in batches also has no place in a National race or series. How can you be beaten by a guy you didn?t ?race? against? Mtb racing is not a time trial, it is a race. By all means there should be seeding , but there should only be one start. There were D batch riders who started in A batch in Barberton and scored a free 15minutes before they started. Now how valid will those National series results be? And what on earth does a neutral zone achieve? You want the field to spread out, not to be artificially bunched up!! So what if the surface of the first 2kms is slightly smoother than the next 10kms. It?s a race and the same for every one. If it?s too smooth to race on then why isn?t the last 2kms on the tar also a neutral zone?
