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Please
send us
your thoughts/suggestions for
improvement. Also, feel free to send in comments
regarding the requests below. 2010 Requests (see '09 series feedback & comments here): 1. Start the Senior A class behind the XC2 Expert Lites class (ahead of Novice classes). 2. Add pit bike race between kids and adult race - 15 min. or so on kid's course. 3. Add an ATV class. 4. Summer break unique event. 5. Can't use DQ as one of the two drops. 6. Move the Beginners to the very back of the starting lineup. 7. Split the "motos" up more to help with traffic concerns. Possibly split into Experts, Novice, and Senior A in one moto...the rest of the main event classes in another. 8. Add 30+ classes to split up the Beginner classes and help with sandbagging. 9. Riders should be moved up by merit and results / not voluntarily. 10. Don't let someone younger than 14 ride in the Junior class. 11. Have the adults start at 8am in the hot months, youth & women start afterward. 12. Remove the optional extreme sections. 13. From the AR staff - reduce the work requirement for bonus point workers to race weekend only...instead of race weekend AND a previous work weekend. Helping out previous weekend(s) and/or the Fridays of race weekend would be much appreciated but not mandatory. 14. Allow 250 2-strokes in the Lites classes. |
Responses:
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#1, Start the Senior A class behind XC2 / in front of Novice classes: -Last season when the Senior class took off we would catch up to the other riders as soon as we hit the woods. Then we would spend most of the first lap trying to get around the slower riders. -I know that I pass the majority of the Novice riders in the first 1st or 2nd laps while it is pretty busy and it makes for some hairy moves. This is just food for thought and I can live with it either way. I am just looking out for each other here.
-Logic tells me a rider that signs up A class - Senior or not should
be starting ahead of the Novice riders. Starting behind the
Novice cost the A riders valuable time in the first 2 laps and ruins
their chance for a great overall finish.
#2 Add pit bike class:
-I like the idea of a pit bike race. It may encourage more
people to arrive early and get signed up. More riders are
playing with pit bikes lately. It could be fun.
#3 Add ATV class: -This would help diversify the series and bring a larger audience to the events. It will also open the series to more sponsors since there are a good bit of Louisiana ATV OEM MFGs such as Xtreme Products, Gorilla Axle, High lifter, and Submarine Snorkels just to name a few. Some of these companies have teams with factory backing. I think adding ATVs and getting some of these local Aftermarket OEM teams could elevate the status of the LACC series. -Just my two cents, but after riding Round 1 at Cypress
Creek I believe if ATV’s were allowed to run the same course
before the bikes it would have been a lot worse in the number of
mud bogs and near impassable crossings.
#4 Summer break unique event:
-During the summer break it would be cool
if there was a 4-6 hour race or a 100 mile event that could be
done as an Ironman or buddy race. It would not count towards
overall points, it would be a just for the hell of it. Since it
would be in the summer call it the "Hotter than Heck 100" or
something along those lines. #5 Can't use DQ as a drop: -If a rider is disqualified due to cutting he/she shouldn't be able to use that as one of the two drops.
-DQ should never be covered by a drop. Should be a penalty for
breaking rules. Whether cutting the course or any other
violation. If covered it teaches riders to cheat until they
get caught. Then just a drop & no harm is done to your chances
for a series championship.
#6 Move the Beginners to the back of the starting lineup: -I agree!
#7 Split the Main Event up into two motos - Experts, Novice classes, and Senior A in one / the rest in another: -I agree. -Will put us leaving later in the afternoon on Sunday - just make the courses longer and/or longer offsets between classes.
-I like the split classes idea. In addition to traffic control
it would allow the riders to do some spectating. I think it
may work better if the kids, women's & Pit Bike classes could be run
on Saturday afternoon. Allowing more time to work with.
Also some riders may ride both days.
#8 Add 30+ classes: -...most 30+ guys have racing experience or multiple years
of riding experience with their buddies, but don't want to mix
it up with the faster younger guys in the novice class (or
faster classes) guys. That leaves most of them to sign up in
the Beginner class where they really don't BELONG because they
have been riding for many years...would help with the
overcrowding at the gate for the beginner classes which are
always the largest classes. Guys were all the way to the fence
in the beginner class...
#9 Don't allow riders to voluntarily move up to a higher class - riders should be moved up by merit and results. -not fair to riders
in the classes behind who have to pass - also a safety concern. #10 Don't allow a rider under 14 years old to ride in the Junior class. -I
agree! This class is for riders between the ages of 14
and 16 so keep it that way.
#11 Have the adults start at 8am in the hot months, youth & women start afterward. -I
know we have made good efforts to avoid the summer runs with the
break but we still have races in June, August, and September even
with the break. I highly recommend that you move the starting times
in June, August and September for the adult races to 8-am. (like
enduros have done for 50 years) This would avoid the heat in these
warm months and accomplish the very same thing. It would also allow
the return trip home to begin earlier and avoid some returns well
into late night. Your northwest LA runs put us about 10-midnight
getting home with some needing to work or go to school the next day.
This would put the special classes that you normally run early
starting after the adults finish at 9:30 at 10am. About the same
time they start now.
#12 Remove the optional extreme sections. -For
the same reasons described on the '09
feedback page (#18).
#13 From the AR Staff: reduce the work requirements for bonus point workers. ---The
purpose of making this change would be to increase the amount of
helpers race weekend as the core staff can't be in multiple places
at the same time during the event. -I understand needing more help but most of the trail cutting is done prior to race weekend that's why you pick the venue closest to your location. Or offer full points for prior and race weekend and half points for race weekend only.
#14 Allow 250 2-strokes in the Lites classes. -I disagree, a large percentage of XC1, Novice and Beginner riders are on 250 2-strokes, so it's obviously a competitive motorcycle against 450F's. Allowing 250 2-strokes into the Lites classes would give a huge advantage to those riders, anyone on a 200 2-stroke or 250F would be giving up a lot against the 250 2-strokes. If riders are choosing 250s to go against 450F's, then 250's definitely don't belong in the Lites classes.
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See '09 series feedback & comments here.