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AlanGoodman 
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Club Chairman Joined: 04 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 8036 |
 Topic: Castle Coombe - Thanks...Posted: 17 April 2005 at 5:44pm |
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Thanks very much to all those doing the organising at Castle Coombe... Wonder if the pedal car boys have stopped yet.... 2 hours was plenty for me. |
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Mr Blue Sky
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Joined: 15 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 103 |
Posted: 17 April 2005 at 7:37pm |
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I second those sentiments:thanks to Kevin, Jon, Jonathan, gNick and the
two lovely Mrs Goodpersons - I'm also thankful that the rain was kind
enough to wait until we'd finished.
Noticeable how thin on the ground we were in the sports class - you'd have thought we should stick together, but oh no, you had to go and lap me  !Just you wait until I've had my NHS leg transplant, mate. Neil |
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Yowie
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Joined: 05 March 2005 Location: NRW Status: Offline Points: 940 |
Posted: 17 April 2005 at 7:46pm |
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Thanks everyone who helped today, Paula and I had a great time. [paula] Thanks for everyone who congratulated my efforts, despite my lowly standing. Ow, my knees |
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AlanGoodman
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Posted: 17 April 2005 at 8:11pm |
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Neil... I didn't lap you really... I just hid behind the tyre wall then sneaked out again as you came by...
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jes@gcre
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Posted: 18 April 2005 at 10:24am |
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We finished about 3 hours after the rain started Really nice to see HPV's and pedal cars cohabiting again though. Let's hope it's the first of many. Next year? Same time same place> |
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Racing is life...
Anything which happens before or afterwards is just standing around waiting to race.... |
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KevinJ
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Posted: 18 April 2005 at 10:37am |
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We were lucky with the rain, and just got in before it started for real. As for you guys - you must have been pretty wet by the time you finished. Well Done.
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Kevin Jenkins
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gNick
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Posted: 18 April 2005 at 11:08am |
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Great job, thanks to all who helped. BTW for those who may be wondering why the BPCC timing system wasn't actually running, it seems there was a problem with the computer not recognising its own serial port. Since we are intending to have a dedicated box this shouldn't be a problem. Kevin, what is the power drain of your laptop? I have a 12V 7Ah SLA battery going spare at the moment and I was wondering if it will have enough juice to manage an event.
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gNick
"I'm afraid it's definite, Mrs Banker - your son has bicycles" |
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jes@gcre
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Posted: 18 April 2005 at 11:59am |
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Yes, human lap counters sometimes make the odd mistake (there were about 5000 laps counted in total by very very cold lap counters yesterday and we think only 1 mistake and 1 counter sticking on a "10" both of which were resolved). But, to totally screw things up, you need a computer! What are the chances of a bullet-proof lap top failing to recognise it's own port? |
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Racing is life...
Anything which happens before or afterwards is just standing around waiting to race.... |
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KevinJ
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Joined: 04 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1079 |
Posted: 18 April 2005 at 12:40pm |
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Need to check manual but
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Kevin Jenkins
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gNick
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Joined: 22 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1977 |
Posted: 18 April 2005 at 1:09pm |
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Ok so we keep the old 486 the club bought many years ago as a backup beastie. It will be able to run the BASIC lapcount program. I have an old MAC powerbook as well, I wonder if that could be used? Or persuade Data from Star Trek Next Generation to come and do the scoring for us, being a robot no problems; or Kryten; or Marvin; or the Famous Eccles... ...my excuse is I'm having a very bad day. |
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gNick
"I'm afraid it's definite, Mrs Banker - your son has bicycles" |
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