WT now Racetec?

[andre_ct]

apologies if this has been discussed already....did search tho

 

got an email now saying that Winning Time is now rebranded as racetec....

and there are new chips but u can use the old one

 

for how long tho?

andre_ct2009-03-03 10:07:04

[joevan]

The Email I got said it has been re-branded as Racetec????????????

[andre_ct]

sorry meant to say "is now" and not "is not"

edited

[joevan]

Re-Branding=Phase out old chips eventually=more money for them = another rip-off!!

 

Sound like drivers licences, every few years they need to "upgrade" the system, and we all have to replace our licences!

[Ox_Wagon]

Why am I not suprised.

[porky]

The WT chips were rubbish anyway, two of mine have fallen out of the holder and got lost, my wife has lost one and my mate one, so out of three people we have paid WT R200.00 for replacements which should never have fallen out in the first place.!

 

Great business.

 

I have had my Champion Chip for donkeys years, I run with it, cycle with it and its perfect. !!

 

 

[Wobbles]

 

I have had my Champion Chip for donkeys years' date=' I run with it, cycle with it and its perfect. !!

 

 

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It sounds very loyal and faithfull, do you sleep with it as well?

Wobbles2009-03-04 00:20:19

[Red Zone]

I guess that WT are no longer going to be winning. The New chip looks like it no longer has an ankle strap, so you have to fit it to your fork. A bit of a bugger if you have more than one bike

[CycleJunkie]

 

 

I have had my Champion Chip for donkeys years' date=' I run with it, cycle with it and its perfect. !!

 

 

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It sounds very loyal and faithfull, do you sleep with it as well?

 

Ooooo! 

 

I've had no probs with either, but is it really necessary to change the chips. Here's a suggestion to WT. When we register at our next event, have a rep swopping them out and registering them at the same time. I am sure that the transponder(?) inside could be re-used. That way the new branding gets out there, and we do not have to fork out another R400 (wife and I)

 

[cyclone]

Important Notice Regarding non-WinningTime Chips

 

Race Administration Systems WTSA (Pty) Ltd ("Winning Time") has

been involved in lititgation initiated by ChampionChip Africa (Pty) Ltd

("ChampionChip") regarding the use of ChampionChip transponders during

events timed by Winning Time

[Mrs Colonel]

On Sunday at the Argus Mtb race, one of the race organisers was putting an orange chip onto his wife / friends bikes.  Someone asked about the chip and he said that they were busy testing new chips - the orange ones are made locally, as opposed to the current imported chip.

 

The plot thickens...

[ASTANA]

Would like to keep my old WT chip - or atleast I don't want to pay R100 for a "new look",

 

but

 

I would like to put my WT chip on my fork, hate that strap. anyone got a idea ?