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elaina Moderator

Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 11199 Location: home
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: Start Sheets |
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how do you prefer getting your start sheet?
a) by email - if I can't get it I know a man who can
b) post
Last edited by elaina on Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:28 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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George Minion E, Silver
Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 1519 Location: in France
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Start Sheets |
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[quote="elaina"]how do you prefer getting your start sheet?
a) by email - if I can't get it I know a man who can
b) post - I am thick with no mates[/quote
Not got a computer at home ...so it has to be jolly old post for me.
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Big-C Div 1 Pro

Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 9404 Location: Compton
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Start Sheets |
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[quote="George Minion"]
elaina wrote: |
how do you prefer getting your start sheet?
a) by email - if I can't get it I know a man who can
b) post - I am thick with no mates[/quote
Not got a computer at home ...so it has to be jolly old post for me.
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Obviously, you live in an area where the postmen bother to come..... _________________ Straight Outta Compton |
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qcscmh World Champ

Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 14071 Location: Not on the Bike
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Voted by Post, as it saves me printing it off to take it to the race.
needs to be an incentive, like I mentioned on other post. |
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Rob of the Og E, Gold
Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 2256
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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Depends how big the race is. Getting the start sheets for the Magic Dragon series timetrials is ideal, since they're only midweek tt's and it's not too serious, I'll look at it once on the screen and see what time I'm off and that's all I need it for. But if I'm riding a stage race or something then I'd like a tidy start sheet in the post because I'll take some time to read it properly at home, then take it with me to the event. I suppose I could always print it out myself  |
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Chr!s B. E, Silver

Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 1967
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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I dont usually mind either way.. as long as they arrive in plenty of time.
This year I recieved a start sheet for stage race - 1 day before it started..
I recieved an e-mail reply to confirm that my entry had been accepted a week before... but I had to search the net, find info on the previous years race and hope that the courses HQ's were the same this year..
If they werent, Id booked a nice hotel nowhere near the race. _________________ 73 |
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Bally Div 2 Pro

Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5664
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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I don't mind either way.
However when I organise then I do e-mail all those I have e-mail addresses for and the rest get posted. Any e-mails that I get a bounce back from get posted.
This saves postage and allows for more money to be put into the prize money. |
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Matt Clinton Div 1 Pro

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 7868 Location: rarely logging in.
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Chr!s B. wrote: |
I dont usually mind either way.. as long as they arrive in plenty of time.
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I agree, but it is nice to get something the post sometimes!  _________________ http://www.facebook.com/MikeVaughanCyc
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Rich Hill Tour Winner

Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 15188 Location: Coventry
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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George Minion said ---
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Not got a computer at home ...so it has to be jolly old post for me. |
1. Where are you posting from to this forum ?
2. I am guessing but in Nottingham they have a few libraries?
(Every library in the UK is part of UK Online - proving superb internet access for free....)
I'm not trying to pick on you George - but I do find (myself included now! ) that the older generation resist change the most.
I like the idea of being told you are in - and THEN a start sheet going out but via e-mail or on a race web site is much better than snail mail IMHO....
Rich _________________ Imagination is the war against reality.... |
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marlboro man Div 2 Pro

Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 5873 Location: Derkaderkastan
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hate to sound like a Lib Dem but I think nowadays you should get both. If you get it by post and leave it at home then you can log on to the web somewhere and view it. If you have a Blackberry then so much the better. Perhaps it would be better to have a box on the entry sheet that enables you to request that it isn't sent by post to you at all in order to save wasting paper etc. _________________ "so if MM wants to suck down 16mg unfiltered tar-laden cancer-causing , he will! And by God, he'll enjoy it... not to mention chasing nubile Estonian tail whilst off his opps on cheap and savage Baltic charlie...! " Colin Sturgess |
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Adam Div 1 Pro
Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 7258 Location: London
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samtheman Cat 2 Groupie


Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 51 Location: On my bike
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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I think via email, unless the person sendin them by email doesnt know wot he is doin  _________________ Always looking Shiny, even in the winter  |
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kitch E, Bronze
Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 426
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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samtheman wrote: |
I think via email, unless the person sendin them by email doesnt know wot he is doin  |
you mean like the time i got one in the format of a microsoft publisher document. how many people have the software to view that format, *CENSORED*?! _________________ I am my favorite rider... |
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qcscmh World Champ

Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 14071 Location: Not on the Bike
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:27 am Post subject: |
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to satisfy all - default could be email, if you want a paper copy then you have to supply s stamp addressed envelope. |
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Des Moderator


Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 16900 Location: Harrow
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Its quite simple, if you don't want the start sheet by e-mail, don't fill in the e-mail address. If its filled in I presume the person has agreed to an e-mailed start sheet. _________________ www.kentonrc.co.uk |
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Rich Hill Tour Winner

Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 15188 Location: Coventry
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:43 am Post subject: |
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to satisfy all - default could be email, if you want a paper copy then you have to supply s stamp addressed envelope. |
That seems like a good idea to me - and it also seems like a good idea to have it set up on the race entry sheet.
Like Bob D says' The times they are a changin" - and who says the sport needs to stand still?
Rich _________________ Imagination is the war against reality.... |
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Tandemdriver Elite Poster

Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 238 Location: Near Cardiff
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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how do you prefer getting your start sheet?
EARLY !
(Preferably before the event)
It is nice when the organiser posts it on a website somewhere (like most of the Welsh TT's go on Welshcycling.org) then if the postal copy hasn't turned up, you can check it.
Email Startsheets is a blinkin' nightmare - I sent them out for a race I ran 2 years ago, of the 50 odd people that gave me an address on the entry form, about half were returned as being wrong, old, non-existant, etc.
It's only as good as the info the promotor happens to have from the Rider - Oh, and have you seen some of the handwriting on entryforms ???  |
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MH E, Bronze
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 479
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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1 day before! try living in somerset, i recently got a start sheet through for a race in Wales 10 days after the race!! At least i got to see exactly who'd beaten me! |
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