Banjo
Fuelled with Jelly Babies
- Location
- South Wales
Common sense is applied and controls are there to enable riders to prove they have done the route but without needing the level of proof required to convict a murderer for example.
Bit suspicious that you didn't go in the pub for a pint though.....Shame.
- I have an alibi for my wife's murder. That brevet card shows that at the time of her murder in Carmarthen, I was recording the distance on the signpost to Llanarthne at Porthyrhyd as 3 miles.
- It's true sarge, I'll take the cuffs off
Another thing I did in the GRSS is go to a village sign and wrap 2 bands of coloured insulation tape around a village sign post - the question 'what colour tape is wrapped around the Scadabay village sign' - not going to get that from Google Street View and I can put a different colour tape on each year.
Phone apps (which is my current method, not that it stops some people on here insisting pink is purple or whatever it was), camera, ask someone, or simply note what it could be? There's not really a perfect solution to that.I've been looking at this ride since you started @wicker man but please have a care for those of us who don't see colours properly
Phone apps (which is my current method, not that it stops some people on here insisting pink is purple or whatever it was), camera, ask someone, or simply note what it could be? There's not really a perfect solution to that.
My 200 that I'm organising in September has three info controls. They all have exactly the same question - I'm rather proud of that.
(Each has a different answer, of course. And the answer will be immediately apparent as you ride past - no stopping and hunting for tiny signs etc.)
The perfect solution is don't use info's that rely on colour
Yeah, that's a perfect solution for those of who have problems with colour, but all info controls cause problems for someone, don't they? The common ones where you have to read things off signs can make things hard for dyslexics (as well as usually being trivial to discover at the start), while ones inside a gate can frustrate the less agile rider.The perfect solution is don't use info's that rely on colour, particularly 'What colour is the barn at the far end end of the field on the left of the T junction?' when its a foggy day and vis is down to 20 metres and the barn is 200 metres away, but yes generally I take photo's of info's to avoid messing about with brevet cards and pencils at the roadside.
UnobtainiumI remember once standing in a gateway with a group of other puzzled cyclists, looking at a gate asking each other ... "well, what do you think it's made of?"
Was that WCW? Because the problem was slightly worse - you couldn't have shone your light on the door to see the colour, because it had a window in it! I wonder how many riders shone a light thru their front door?One of the info control questions on a 600 I did was the colour of the front door on a house near a particular junction. Unfortunately, what the organiser had failed to consider was that it was an unlit country lane and most riders would be passing through that spot in the middle of the night...
Yes, it's back with series 2, even though it's about 5 years since series 1 - does it feature an Audax? Will the BBC be showing it like the first one?Salamander