Have you read the NEW CSA road rules 2011

[zabel]

TCS were the top vets team last year, soon to be Cat A team to beat ??

 

I hope TCS has got a PDI... else they will be racing in Cat2

[1hill@aTime]

I hope TCS has got a PDI... else they will be racing in Cat2

 

They can use I

[Trubie]

I'm gonna beat spinnekop this year i just know it, 63ks this year already, I feel the strenght already

 

easy tiger - you on the edge of overdoing it..........

[Trubie]

I hope TCS has got a PDI... else they will be racing in Cat2

 

nope - they only use Dale's

[scotty]

I hope TCS has got a PDI... else they will be racing in Cat2

 

I like the new system, but i can see a few glitches. By definition of the rules as I understand them a number of extremely strong riders that cannot meet the criteria such as Burry are not going to be happy chappies.

[Spinnekop]

I'm gonna beat spinnekop this year i just know it, 63ks this year already, I feel the strenght already

 

Why have you put on so much weight?

[Spinnekop]

nope - they only use Dale's

 

 

[Spinnekop]

I hope TCS has got a PDI... else they will be racing in Cat2

 

If you enter a "Vets Cat 1 team" you are not forced to have PDI's:

Team Composition:

a. Min 4 riders ???? Maximum 6 riders

 

That said, the TCS Elite team has 2 pdi's and 2 youngsters to comply to the rules!

[Spinnekop]

I like the new system, but i can see a few glitches. By definition of the rules as I understand them a number of extremely strong riders that cannot meet the criteria such as Burry are not going to be happy chappies.

 

INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES

(DISCRETION OF ROAD COMM)

[gtr1]

I think I'm a youngster, but actually closer to masters than I'd like to admit.

 

I just think we keep trying to complicate things, and it seldom makes racing any better.

 

I agree, pro's should be pro's. Race hard and long. Also not easy all the time so that the sprinters keep winning. They shouldn't just be pro fun riders.

 

It's always been an issue when there are teams racing against individuals. Never fair.

 

All these ideas are almost impossible to implement properly when CSA is generally not up to standard (being nice). In an ideal world, you would have a process wherby you "qualify" for a license by competing in enough events to gain the necessary skills, and possibly being of a certain standard/ability. Then once licenses, and all fight it out. If you can't keep up, you train harder. If you want to have a team of 4 riders or more etc. I then reckon you should be racing with the pro teams. So you then have team vs team. That way, if your team can't win, you will start having the team look for better talent to up their standard, and that way you will hopefully get more teams racing on more equitable terms as the talent will be spread about. Regardless of age.

 

The rest ride as individuals. The reason I say age categories is because it's hard to cheat on your age, easy to cheat on your times. And as you say. If no prize money etc, maybe nobody will care so much about winning category F. What may be better is to make the categories more equitable by adding a few "in-between" ages. Like 40-44 then 45-49 etc. Big difference between a 40 year-old and a 49 year-old. Just as there is between a 14 and 18 year-old.

 

Years ago you had schoolboy racing with restrictions on equipment. So a 12 year-old starting out could race other inexperienced 12 year-olds and on similar equipment. In those days, no lightweight bikes or tubbies. Gave the guy off the street a chance. Only when you got to Juvenile (under 16) level could you be licensed and improve equipment. That way you could expand the base of new riders.

 

But as I said. Without proper systems in place that are unified across the country, nothing will be achieved whichever way you try to implement it.

[1hill@aTime]

Why have you put on so much weight?

 

too much pizza and beer