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Your Letters - Time Trial Nonsense
By email to IrishCycling.com
11 Nov 2009,
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Dear Irish Cycling,
I have just read Geoff Liffey’s message on your website – see the following quote: ‘4. The course used must comply with either the RTT (Road Time Trials) or C.I. regulations regarding start and finishing positions.’
As a result of this statement it seems that Cycling Ireland timetrials will be governed by British Cycling (RTT) regulations. The CI regulations in relation to the distance between start and finish points are more constraining than those of British Cycling. Why would any club run its event under CI regulations when a record/personal best can be more easily achieved under RTT regulations. A competitor wishing to set a national record would be best advised to set it in England or find a club here who adheres to the RTT regulations. No need for a CI regulation at all – what’s the point of them? The net result of this is that clubs should dispose of their CI regulations and just refer to British Cycling’s regulations.
I understand what CI have tried to do but ‘it’s the tail wagging the dog’ and they have lost sight of their role as the governing body for cycling in Ireland. Get a grip lads this change is a nonsense in its current form – why don’t CI amend their regulations in line with RTT’s but please make sure they are still CI regulations we operate with (not RTT).
Gary Kendall
CI member
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