Under the gospel according to Bidlake, founder of the british system
of time-trialling, all participants received a start sheet in the mail the
week before the event. The start sheet, under a cover headed 'private and
confidential', indicated not only the handicap to be awarded for that event
but also described in detail the exact location of the course, which is
identified in the calendar only by a code letter. Any rider failing to show
up at the appointed time was given a time penalty and anyone failing to show
up at all was expected to write a letter of apology to the timekeeper. While
all of this has absolutely nothing to do with the compution of handicaps for
OBC events, it just goes to show that bureaucracy in cycling has deep roots
and that these are not confind to Ottawa.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: OBC
> Subject: Re: [obc] XX-Rated and IEEE?
>
> Rosella Mac Neil wrote:
>
> > 1) Is it OK to combine two or more excusxxx er, handicaps, like maybe if
> > a rider is an engineer who wore a dress - only once - and had ridden
> > 1200 km in new shorts the previous weekend?
>
> Again, final decisions to the Mugsters. Fine by the programmer - though
> the
> waiver will have to indicate that all excuses will be listed in the
> results
> (no work for me whatsoever - they'll be placed like the team names were in
> the last WTT).
>
> > 2) Have you been working with more engineers lately than you usually do?
>
> No.
>
> > ...than you usually can tolerate?
>
> I suspect that you're pulling my leg, but I don't get this one. I've
> always
> been exceptionally fond of our IEEE (idiosyncratic, even eccentric
> engineering) participants!
>
> Celia
>
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