Bike preparation, who reads the rules regarding numbers

[Grumph]

the design of the seats of these new bike's have make it very hard to read numbers , old schooled numbers on side fairing is fair easyer to read , now up to commuators to do there part ,but thats a diffiert story

The seat/numbers thing is a hangover from some point in the 90's when for a couple of seasons you had to have the side numbers behind the rider.
There's no requirement for that now so even on a bucket with only a half fairing, you can hang a couple of number boards somewhere.

Yes, Tim Gibbes was hot on numbers too - but turn up to a National at manfield with numbers too small - or a strange font - and Trevor would read you the riot act. If it was because he was commentating, Spyda is the natural successor...

[nodrog:Me]

According to the rules i can run a number 1 on my sidecar without earning it. Choice. Now i just need to buy a $3 trophy and I've saved a couple of thousand.

[Kickaha]

According to the rules i can run a number 1 on my sidecar without earning it. Choice. Now i just need to buy a $3 trophy and I've saved a couple of thousand.

Are you sure you did read the rule book?


Numbers 1-10 will be reserved
for Competitors finishing in that position in that Class in the previous years
Championship

[jellywrestler]

If it was because he was commentating, Spyda is the natural successor...

the reality is I doubt anyone knows the road racing bikes in NZ as much or more than I do, I rarely need numbers, and usually if they're coming past the commentary position those places arew too fast to see anyway, but i don't need to, I work out whose gone through and look at the computer.

So why am I going to be the loudest on this subject, three reasons, firstly the public need the numbers, they need to be able to work out whose who to add value to their day, to understand what's going on, to identify who the commentator is talking about, and follow them.

Secondly, the safety aspect, Scrivy noted that one, and thirdly, last year we had a shit season with a couple of incidents whereby officials picked up bits of the rules they thought they'd apply to the game, this is exactly what's going on here, the numbers rule is clear cut, but riders seem to think they can pick up what suits them, and that's ok.
There's a set of rules for our sport, read em, apply them, if you don't like them, change them, please.

[nodrog:Me]

Are you sure you did read the rule book?


Numbers 1-10 will be reserved
for Competitors finishing in that position in that Class in the previous years
Championship

Read it again to see what appendix that applies to.

[Grumph]

Read it again to see what appendix that applies to.

Mmmh, rules need a tidy up in that area.

[scrivy]

Well fuck me......
It's not that hard afterall.....


Or do we need to appease the sponsors over the rules?

[jellywrestler]

Well fuck me......
It's not that hard afterall.....


Or do we need to appease the sponsors over the rules?

the rule says 140mm not 250mm, there's room under the belly pan and you know it.

[scrivy]

the rule says 140mm not 250mm, there's room under the belly pan and you know it.

Yip.
But with some of the angles of the belly pans, that too may be too hard to read....and defeat the rule...

[nodrog:Me]

the rule says 140mm not 250mm, there's room under the belly pan and you know it.

There is a minimum numberboard size, text size is 140

[jellywrestler]

There is a minimum numberboard size, text size is 140

yip was reffering to text size.

[jellywrestler]

Yip.
But with some of the angles of the belly pans, that too may be too hard to read....and defeat the rule...

there is also a rule about it's readability...

[nodrog:Me]

yip was reffering to text size.

It still has to be on a coloured rectangle or oval 285mm x 235mm.

[jellywrestler]

It still has to be on a coloured rectangle or oval 285mm x 235mm.

so no-one in recent years has thought to alter the rule to maybe fit with modern bikes then?

[Mental Trousers]

so no-one in recent years has thought to alter the rule to maybe fit with modern bikes then?

One of hundreds of tweaks needed to the rules. For instance, the rules say that a board should be shown on the start line for all riders to check their helmets. For road racing this is done on the dummy grid before leaving the pits, but there's no rule to cover doing that.