Mike Murray

USAC has had this rule come and go in various versions over many years now,
including rules that mandated gears that could not really even be done with
modern gear systems without use of a machine shop. I could almost see
applicability for track or other fixed gear racing but for road racing the
idea is just plan dumb. To my knowledge no one has brought this idea before
OBRA and I hope it stays that way.

Mike Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of David Auker
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 23:21 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Juniors-If you race out of state read this

Ah, sorry, I was wrong when I said:
> Anyway, shouldn't the following say:
>
> "If the crank arms complete more than a full revolution in this
> distance, the bike fails." ??
>
> instead of:
>
>> The bike is rolled backwards straight towards the other mark until
>> the crank arms have completed a full revolution. If the crank arms do not
complete a full revolution in this distance, the bike fails.
>>
:-[

I think it's good (and interesting) OBRA doesn't have the gear
restrictions. Has there ever been a push for this? Has USA Cycling had
this all along? I remember it a long time ago, but this seems to be
worded as a "new" rule.?

David

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