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New school racing / New school racing / Roof over Darwin track
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on: May 23, 2013, 06:27:45 PM
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Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to put an enormous roof over the BMX bike track at Darwin's Marrara sporting precinct if Labor wins the election.
The track misses out on hosting national events because it suffers damage each wet season.
The roof would need to be 80 metres wide and 100 metres long.
Mr Albanese says Labor will provide $1.5 million to help build the new Olympic sport in the Top End.
"By putting a roof on the facility for participants and also for spectators, by upgrading the quality of the track so that it's at first-class standard, modelled on the London site that will be used during the 2012 olympics," he said.
Spoke to Jace Eecen at Nationals, he said that the roof construction should be complete in 2014
Looks like Burma have already done it. Here's a video of the Thai team training in the lead upto the South East Asia (SEA) Championships in Dec 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxqj1XamWs...eature=youtu.be
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New school racing / New school racing / Re: Cycling sexism: BMX bandits steal money from women
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on: May 21, 2013, 04:33:32 PM
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The 17+ girls had quarter finals - Am i right in saying that a lot more females than males dropped back into challenge at the nationals, to give themselves a better chance of qualifying for the worlds?
From 2012 Nationals, the following numbers went from Champioship to Challenge:
- three (3) Elite Women
- five (5) Junior Elite Women
None of the riders had competed in 2013 Probikx rounds, so had not earned a UCI point. |
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New school racing / New school racing / Re: Cycling sexism: BMX bandits steal money from women
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on: May 21, 2013, 11:13:54 AM
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Highly devisive article, deliberate or not.
The author may not realise that BMX is not like other sports that attract large $$$ through sponsorships or selling TV rights where large prizes are offered.
In fact, BMXA lose money with the National Series (even with high entry fees).
The reason why Australia has had the Oceania Continental Championships for two years (and probably the next few) is because NZ is broke and can't afford to put them on.
Principally, the prize money in BMX comes from entry fees.
For Oceania Continental Championship
Elite Men entry fee = $280
Elite Women entry fee = $140
Based on entry fees, the prize pools are equitable.
However, looking at the overall P&L breakdown below women are favoured.
P&L based on each class based on (all in AUD):
- income = entry fee x # entries
Elite Men, income = $280 x 25 entries = $7000
Elite Women, income = $140 x 6 entries =$840
Junior Men, income = $140 x 18 entries =$2520
Junior Women, income = $75 x 6 entries =$450
Outgoing = sum of prize pool in UCI Financial Obligations for BMX (link at the bottom of the page):
[Note converted at 1 AUD = 0.7612 EURO]
Elite Men = $6569
Elite Women = $2989
Junior Men = $3284
Junior Women = $1495
Profit (Income – Outgoing)
Elite Men = + $ 431
Elite Women = - $ 2149
Junior Men = - $ 764
Junior Women = -$ 1045
Total loss = -$ 4774 (including 950EURO UCI calendar fee)
That loss is taken from the challenge class entry fees (mostly male).
UCI Financial Obligations for BMX:
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTI2NDE&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NDc1ODY&LangId=1
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Aussie plates
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on: May 21, 2013, 09:09:16 AM
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Basing results on 3 motos resulted in reduced spectacle for both Elite Women and Jr. Elite Women IMHO.
The largest BMX nation in the world can't get a full gate of Elite Women at their National Championships.
Even when they are combined with the Junior Women.
USA Cycling National Championships had five (5) Elite Women and two (2) Junior Women compete in 3 motos only.
IMHO this rule needs to be changed for National Championships.
USAC then awarded ranking based on result in the respective class, so Shaelen Reno is 1st and Shay Glyn is 2nd in Junior Women.
Women Elite Total Riders = 7 Groups = 1
1 ALISE POST
2 ARIELLE MARTIN
3 SHEALEN RENO (Junior Women)
4 DANI GEORGE
5 BROOKE CRAIN
6 SHAY GLYNN (Junior Women)
7 SHELBY STACY
http://www.usabmx.com/site/bmx_races/35443/results?past_only=1§ion_id=25
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Forum - Delete it or Move it
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on: May 17, 2013, 12:26:24 AM
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It would help if someone could step up and help administer it, we used to have multiple admins, but they have all moved on.
Facebook has probably taken over with "local" racing issues.......but Ultra is still THE place for discussing national / interstate matters.
I consider that Ultra still provides a valuable service, even if traffic volume is lower and mostly buy/sell orientated.
I'll put my hand up to be an admin to help out.
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Aussie plates
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on: May 16, 2013, 12:47:29 PM
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My question is this.
What would have happened if there were say 10 riders in the field & only 5 raced because of injury etc.?
Would all 10 riders get a plate? (I wouldnt think so)
Would only the 5 that actually raced get a plate because 10 entered?
There's only 8 plates on offer.
10 riders would be split into two fixed motos of 5 riders, at least one rider from each moto would not transfer to the final.
The transfer rule states with two DNS you don't transfer to the final.
UCI didn't give points to riders at 2011 SX at Papendal who made it through time trials (effectively Top 64). The next phase is "final eigths" run over three rounds, riders who crashed out in eigth round one (then get two DNS) got no points, including an Ozzy rider.
UCI rules also require that at least 2 riders finish for a race to be valid.
In a hypothetical example to 10 riders registered, 5 are injured before the race then classes could be drawn that would result in a moto with zero riders and the other with 5.
Cheif Comm would have to make a call to make a valid class.
Applying common sense would have one of 5 riders, under current rules all get a plate.
The problem of class size isn't limited to Australia. In fact Oz has more riders than most Nations.
Applying UCI rules that were developed for undersubscribed feamle challenge classes at World championships has a negative impact on Nationals.
Female Elite classes at Worlds should have enough riders to run Time Trials and have qualifying rounds.
But running just 3 motos isn't a spectacle and doesn't transfer to TV effectively, I note that the last moto was called a final and then the final places didn't reflect placing of teh "final" moto.
But where classes of less than 8 are run; apply common sense / natural justice; if you don't race, you don't get ranked. |
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Aussie plates
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on: May 16, 2013, 12:40:27 PM
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But in a nutshell, I truly believe that they should re-think the Junior Womens event and use the information gathered from this years Aussies and make the class in the future a little safer. Mainly because eight young women aged 16-17 lined up on the 8m start hill to jump an almost 12m step up.
2013 Worlds track has the same 8m start hill and first jump for Men and Women, both Sr and Jr. However, the design suggests there is a reasonable "case pad" for riders who come up short.
The second straight design for Elite Women (Sr and Jr) is the same as the challenge classes.
Seems that BMXA follow the precedent set by UCI.
Note, the UCI track guidelines only require a 2.5m start hill for all classes at National Championships.
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=MTY3NDk&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=Nzk2MDk&LangId=1 |
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Aussie plates
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on: May 14, 2013, 05:40:32 PM
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UCI has published the results from the Oceanias as:
1 Sarah HARVEY 60
2 Rachel JONES 50
3 Jade PARKER 40
4 Jacinta PINK 30
6 Ashleigh GUNN 20
6 Esther WOODWARD 20
UCI points at the end |
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International BMX racing / UCI Supercross / Re: 2013 SX series
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on: May 12, 2013, 10:22:10 PM
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Is it just me or are quite a lot of the top riders not racing the SX this year??? Particularly the recent round on the week end...seemed like there were quite a few racing elsewhere.
Reports on USA forums of many Elites racing USABMX event at Tarheels, including:
Caroline Buchanan, Amanda Geving, Dominique, Strombergs, Meyers, etc
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New school racing / New school racing / New transfer rules | 2013 BMXA Nationals
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on: April 23, 2013, 11:09:19 AM
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"The 2013 National Championships will be run under the 2013 UCI Rulebook"
Previous years BMXA Nationals have had fixed motos and seeded 'A' plate holders on the principle of keeping the top ranked riders separate.
For example for a class running 1/8ths, riders ranked 1A and 2A would not meet until the finals.
Last weekends SX was first race I looked at using the new transfer system.
Moto 1:
Liam Philips 1st
Sam W 2nd
Liam goes into Quarter 1
SamW goes into Quarter 4
Going to be mixed up this year....check out Appendix 1 of UCI rulebook
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General Category / General discussion / Re: Larger front chainring
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on: March 01, 2013, 10:00:04 AM
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With respect to comments/ assumptions about "leverage" and its impact, one must look at the drive system as a whole.
Not for calculating chain tension. Static chain tension yes, dynamic no.
Yes for both static and dynamic.
Have a look at the results of the study in the link below:
www.g-cog.com/VBMX/spicer.pdf
It presents the findings of dynamic testing on three set ups of rear cog sizes; 11T, 15T and 22T.
The 11T set up has the highest frictional losses.
Figure 4 shows the efficiency against the reciprocal of chain tension.
For the investigation, chain tension is calculated by dividing the input torque by the front chain radius.
Therefore, smaller gearing gives a lower front chain radius and will result in higher chain tension for any input torque (dynamic or static).
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