sometimes you have to ask yourself if you really need a group of people telling
you if you did well, FIM in this case.. Freeze a record??? I vote it does not
matter if you use time or speed because they ought to be interchangeable for a
known distance..
Dave
DrMayf wrote:
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> Malcolm, so whay would th etimes and speeds be different, I wonder? Both
> methods use base timing over a measured distane to get speed. I know you are
> not part of that tong but I really don't see the difference. Identical times
> and distances should arrive at the same results. Did they do it to protect
> some national hero's status? I wonder, becaus eit really is a lme excuse for
> freezing a class or anything else.
>
> mayf
>
> > The FIM current list of speed records to be challenged etc dates from
> > 1979/1980. This was the date I understand when the FIM chose to average
> > speeds for two runs and not average the times for two runs and then
> > calculate the speed.
> >
> > It appears none of the records up to that time were changed to the new
> > calculation method so all pre 1979 speeds remain as records not to be
> > challenged ("frozen"). So the likes of Kreidler and NSU do not appear on
> > the website list of current records that can be attempted.
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