we shouldnt be making or enforcing rules for the sake of rules. as mr
kelly points out, we are here to have fun, and the tech inspection is to
protect participants from danger, not to play lawyer with the letter of
the rules. this is especially true when our safety inspections dont
check or catch lots of things that actually are hazards (like the wheel
that came off last year and flew across the course).
james
OSP - On Safety Precipice
Navid Kahangi wrote:
>I had the same issue at round 2. I had talked a couple of people into
>attending the event and one of them got dinged for the same exact thing. He
>had a K&N cone filter on a flexible hose, but it wasn't bolted down. The
>filter was not moving more than a 1/2 inch on either side and was not in
>danger of hitting anything. We ended up taping up the filter to secure it
>down.
>
>I had never heard of this rule, but seemed like less trouble to tape it up
>than to argue the point. I really don't think that left a good impression
>on the first-timers though.
>
>I tend to agree with Rich; If we are going to have more stringent
>requirements for tech than what the National rules state, we need to write
>them down somewhere and make them available.
>
>--Navid
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