Register to race in the https://shop.bhpc.org.uk/race-signon" rel="nofollow - BHPC Shop .

Sign-on starts at 9:00am, Thursday 24th April for BHPC members, a week later (Thursday 1st May) for non-members. Sign-on closes 12:00 noon, Thursday 8th May.

Sign-on for Bath is now

Hi Julie,

Nothing to worry about  The page hasn't been updated yet but I'm sure it will be soon. The list of competitors should be correct even though the rest of the details aren't because that updates automatically as entries come in.

 

Yeah, the competitor list page (which lives https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/liveresults/riderlist.html" rel="nofollow - here ) is re-generated automagically by a script on my computer whenever a registration email comes in from the shop.  The Race Day page that it's embedded in only gets updated when our noble webmaster gets a round tuit, which isn't always before registrations open.

(In principle the same thing could happen with the live results.)

Good to know people are actually using it, anyway.  A disproportionate amount of hacking went in to making that work properly.

Just trying to sign on as a member, I input all the details but no way of going to the checkout, and it looks like I only have the option of paying £14.  Am I being a luddite again?

Stuart

Just checked and you’re not showing as a member for 2025. 

All the best

Alan

Hi Alan,

I paid on 20th January and received the March magazine so must be on the list somewhere.

I will forward the confirmation email to you.

Regards

Stuart

It seems we don't yet have a volunteer to organise.  Which means nobody - including The Official BHPC Jam-Filled Babbage Engine - knows what the race formats are going to be.

Sadly my van didn’t get fixed in time to enter so I won’t make it…

Looks like a good Multitrack turnout!!

Ah, good stuff. 

Natalya won't be organising an egg-and-spoon race then.  (Maybe that would work well at Hereford?)

PS. Can we go Anticlockwise first?  Might reduce my chances of wiping out on that bottom corner...

I think he may be on here somewhere but can’t remember his user name. 

He’s MxHx on Facebook. 

You can’t miss him at Bath. Big chap with a big beard. Races a Festina. 

Times:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/" rel="nofollow - https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/

Photos:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/photos/" rel="nofollow - https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/02/photos/

Points:  https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/BHPC_2025.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.bhpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Events/2025/BHPC_2025.html

Bit of chaos in the first fast race:  Apparently Barney was trusting the LED race clock for when to ring the bell, which would have been fine if, after several years of reliable service, it hadn't chosen that moment to develop a fault in the LED string.  This stopped the left half of the display refreshing properly, turning some numbers into other numbers.  (We've managed to reproduce the fault in test mode, so I know which two of the hundreds of fiddly solder joints to investigate...)

This was compounded by Slash crashing and taking longer than usual to come back round, so the bell was late, and the wrong rider got flagged (which then caused people to stop early).  The times are correct according to what the Babbage Engine saw, which is the best we can do.

Hope the injuries aren't too bad, Steve.

I think we've managed to sort everything else out from video, apart from a couple of missed reads that we don't have video capture for.  I've left the interpolated times in, as they look reasonable.

Something's wrong in the first race - I was about 3/4 of a lap up on the battle between David & James. My Garmin had my average speed at 26.6mph for the first race. On my video I can see a total race time of 00:45 (go flag) to 35:59 (waved chequered flag) so 35mins, 14 seconds in total.

Russ

Yes, it's a cluster****.

Looking at the video, I see a confused looking Barney holding a bell as Nik goes through at race time 33:02.  He starts ringing it as you pass (assuming that you're the leader) at 33:08.  Slash is still in the lead, but doesn't come through until 33:42, and is given a bell rather than a flag.  You then get the flag at 35:14.

What should have happened was Slash getting a bell at 30:38 and a flag at 33:42.  You'd still have got a flag at 35:14, and nobody would have a warm-down lap counted as their final lap.  I think that's probably fairer, so let's do that...

(Did I mention that I hate criteriums?  Fudging the race duration after the fact means that CrossMgr is displaying nonsense at the most critical point of the race.  We wouldn't have this problem with a simple n minute race, which is what the software is designed for.  Also, yes, I need to fix my clock.)

Many thanks Kim! Much appreciated

Russ

Kim wrote: ...which would have been fine if, after several years of reliable service, [the clock] hadn't chosen that moment to develop a fault in the LED string.  This stopped the left half of the display refreshing properly, turning some numbers into other numbers.  (We've managed to reproduce the fault in test mode, so I know which two of the hundreds of fiddly solder joints to investigate...)

Fault investigated with a Mk 1 pokey-thing.

The fiddly solder joints were innocent!  It was a tiny burr on the edge of the aluminimum profile scraping its way through the enamel on the magnet wire forming the data line between two segments.  Evidently it was shorting out with thermal expansion, freezing the downstream pixels in their current state.

I've removed the burr and added some sleeving to the wire, so hopefully that specific intermittent fault won't happen again.