Matt Savage

SS category is ALWAYS necessary...

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On Jan 22, 2013, at 6:53 PM, "Jon S." wrote:

> How about Beginner, Sport, and Expert? Regardless of calling myself an Expert, Semi-Pro, or Elite racer, I know and accept that Tonkin is going to beat me, but he's not getting paid to do it! Therefor, I don't think that the majority of us need to get worked up about where in an 'Expert" category they place. If you're consistently winning in a category, move up.
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> Having raced single-speeds in cross and mtb races, I'm not convinced that they are a detriment, so maybe a separate category is not necessary?
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Evan Plews

Single speed is plus 10% time and potentially costs less money and is quite popular and ready to differentiate...

Clydesdale? There's one to debate the efficacy of!

The point is most people don't want an award they just want a time against their peers. Different courses make that irrelevant. Male and female and age groups under 18 and over 40 make sense as does a true beginner category. All the rest is just subjective and more work for promoters and confusion for racers.
Keep in mind that most mtb races only have a couple hundred people so the course limitations of cyclocross don't really apply.

Evan Plews
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-----Original Message-----

From: Jon S.
Sent: 23 Jan 2013 02:54:19 GMT
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Proposed race categories

How about Beginner, Sport, and Expert? Regardless of calling myself an Expert, Semi-Pro, or Elite racer, I know and accept that Tonkin is going to beat me, but he's not getting paid to do it! Therefor, I don't think that the majority of us need to get worked up about where in an 'Expert" category they place. If you're consistently winning in a category, move up.

Having raced single-speeds in cross and mtb races, I'm not convinced that they are a detriment, so maybe a separate category is not necessary?
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Jon S.

How about Beginner, Sport, and Expert? Regardless of calling myself an Expert, Semi-Pro, or Elite racer, I know and accept that Tonkin is going to beat me, but he's not getting paid to do it! Therefor, I don't think that the majority of us need to get worked up about where in an 'Expert" category they place. If you're consistently winning in a category, move up.

Having raced single-speeds in cross and mtb races, I'm not convinced that they are a detriment, so maybe a separate category is not necessary?