Derby velodrome - March '26

Photos, which are rubbish due to a combination of:

a) Low light 

2) RFID aerials strategically gaffer-taped to the rail

iii) No IR beam-break trigger due to me failing to bring some sort of retroreflector to sellotape to the glass on the infield

four) The back of Andrew's head

Results, which are themselves a bit rubbish due to:

1) Poor RFID performance due to one-sided operation

b) The rubbishness, and frequent absence, of video capture to fill in the gaps in the RFID data

iii) Nigel and Jochen looking surprisingly similar in heavily motion-blurred greyscale

No points, because what happens on the velodrome stays on the velodrome.

All good fun.  Hopefully we can do this again sometime soon, and I'll try to bring a better engine.  I was extremely impressed by the performance of the Nosto under indoor conditions.

NigelSlee wrote: Thanks for sorting out the timings. Amazed at your recognition skills identifying riders from those photographs...

It's a bit easier when you have a few seconds of video; it's still a bicycle-shaped blur, but you have more opportunity to pick out a distinctive frame feature or item of clothing, or indeed recognise people by the way they move (or indeed speed).  On a really good day, you can read people's race numbers 

I couldn't do my usual trick of sorting out the finish photos first so I have a convenient reference for what everyone looks like, since the riders are mostly behind the aerial as they cross the line.  On the other hand, with such a small field, it was relatively straightforward to do process of elimination from the RIFD data:  "Here's a cluster of three riders, Dave's on the track bike, and Gerry's half a second behind him.  Jochen passed 6 seconds ago, so the lowracer-shaped blur in the middle must be Nigel"