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What do you think of the timing system at SITS?
Unfortunately, I lost confidence in it. Too many errors - team doing 12 laps in first 3 hours & too many team representatives asked to explain their lap times. Then there was the announcement that the sun had affected the timing pads!!!
I was very disappointed with the live "scrolling" results service. It didn't really scroll it just paged the top 10 in each category. Totally useless if you were not in the top ten. I thought I would try out the individual rider access terminal only to find that the 2 laps I had done had recorded times of 4 hours and 10 hours - this was at 10pm, just 10 hours into the event. Fortunately it was corrected.
I've just looked at the results hoping to see where we finished in the sports mixed category, veterans sub category. What a bummer the sub categories have been removed (not just in mixed but in all the categories). So I still do not know how many teams were in my category.
Recommendation - next year don't bother with the sub categories, then you will avoid all the issues that surrounded the prize giving.
As for me, I think it is very unlikely I will enter SITS again - I enjoyed the riding and did't mind having to push the bike through muddy sections. No it's the lack of recognition of veterans and the totally inadequate bike washing facilities - who on earth decided on only 3 jet washers, given what happened at mountain mayhem? Yes waiting over an hour and half to wash my bike at 2am has put me off the event.
My Little brother was riding solo and was stopped from using his dirtworker during the early morning by an official, because of something to do with the spray! If he had been blowing chunks of crud onto someones tent i could understand it, but he wasn't, and as regards noise, the DW is as good as silent.
If its going to be a case of not being allowed to use your own bike washing facilities, and having to spend HOURS queueing for a bike wash, then count me out in future.
Sounds like the timing issues from mayhem have gone from bad to worse. I notice it wasn't Time Laps this time, any idea who it was?
I see the lack of an on site bike shop was an issue here at SITS as it was at MM ( Ok wiggle were there but their stock of gear was laughable)
The alck of recognition for the vets cats is always a bit of an issue, but at least give the poor souls the results! If you look at the entry form they are listed as a seperate sub category, and so should appear as such in the results.
This on top of the fiasco with the showers this year at mayhem is really putting a big question mark for me over whether to go to MM next year, which is a shame as we were going to enter as a family now the kids are just old enough.
For an organisation with so much experience, you have to wonder why these gaffs are occurring? Has provelo perhaps peaked? I think perhaps some direction is called for.