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Date: 09 Apr 2007 12:59:30
From: Scott
Subject: Race updates...
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Reading the posts about the poor race announcing for the recent US
Open race in VA got me to thinking about an idea that hit me as I was
watching the race.
Now that we've got the ability to track the position of others' cell
phones through GPS, why can't we tweak it just a bit and develop the
ability to monitor a gps tracker on each rider's bike, which could me
monitored via computer.
Of course it would be nuts to try to track instantaneously the
position of every rider within the peloton, but there's no need for
that. But, it would be pretty easy to sort out the composition of
smaller groups such as breakaways or solo attackers. No more fiddling
with J. Eustice or B. Roll trying to figure out who a particular rider
is. Just look at the gps positioning readouts and you could tell
instantly who's in the break.
Now, if any of you brainiacs want to develop such a system, feel free
to use my idea. I just want my fair share of any revenues!
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Date: 10 Apr 2007 13:17:52
From: bjorn
Subject: Re: Race updates...
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On Apr 9, 12:59 pm, "Scott" <hendricks_sc...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Reading the posts about the poor race announcing for the recent US
> Open race in VA got me to thinking about an idea that hit me as I was
> watching the race.
>
> Now that we've got the ability to track the position of others' cell
> phones through GPS, why can't we tweak it just a bit and develop the
> ability to monitor a gps tracker on each rider's bike, which could me
> monitored via computer.
>
> Of course it would be nuts to try to track instantaneously the
> position of every rider within the peloton, but there's no need for
> that. But, it would be pretty easy to sort out the composition of
> smaller groups such as breakaways or solo attackers. No more fiddling
> with J. Eustice or B. Roll trying to figure out who a particular rider
> is. Just look at the gps positioning readouts and you could tell
> instantly who's in the break.
>
> Now, if any of you brainiacs want to develop such a system, feel free
> to use my idea. I just want my fair share of any revenues!
CSC had developed a tracking system for the Tour of California. I
didn't follow it and haven't heard if it was successful. The device
was supposedly placed on a few riders every stage, as well as the some
cars with the various groups.
There was an interesting discussion during the CSC pre race press
conference - Voigt complaining about being part of a video game...But
at least even Bjarne agreed it shouldn't be used to track riders
during training...
bjorn
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Date: 10 Apr 2007 13:05:58
From: amit.ghosh@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Race updates...
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On Apr 10, 3:53 pm, "trailgalore" <trailgal...@nospam.net > wrote:
> Stuff like this is already used in tri's, look atwww.championchip.com for
> one, their are others, I'm sure there must be a cycle race that has/or is
the championchip system doesn't do what scott is suggesting. that
system uses mats which would have to be placed around the course. ie.
the system doesn't tell you where someone is, it tells you when they
cross certain points.
the euro races seem to use some kind of real time tracking, but the
transponders seem to be on race vehicles (motos), not riders.
in any big race though the announcers should listen to the race radio,
the officials and team instantly know what the composition of a break
is.
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Date: 10 Apr 2007 20:55:45
From: Bob Schwartz
Subject: Re: Race updates...
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amit.ghosh@gmail.com wrote:
> the euro races seem to use some kind of real time tracking, but the
> transponders seem to be on race vehicles (motos), not riders.
Ham radios allow this. The Nature Valley GP has used ham operators
for race communications, one of them was set up to do that. They
had a laptop at the finish that had a real time display of where
the cars were.
It was by no means necessary for what they were doing. But it was
pretty cool for the spectators.
Bob Schwartz
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Date: 10 Apr 2007 19:53:59
From: trailgalore
Subject: Re: Race updates...
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Stuff like this is already used in tri's, look at www.championchip.com for
one, their are others, I'm sure there must be a cycle race that has/or is
"Scott" <hendricks_scott@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:1176148770.123043.166930@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Reading the posts about the poor race announcing for the recent US
> Open race in VA got me to thinking about an idea that hit me as I was
> watching the race.
>
> Now that we've got the ability to track the position of others' cell
> phones through GPS, why can't we tweak it just a bit and develop the
> ability to monitor a gps tracker on each rider's bike, which could me
> monitored via computer.
>
> Of course it would be nuts to try to track instantaneously the
> position of every rider within the peloton, but there's no need for
> that. But, it would be pretty easy to sort out the composition of
> smaller groups such as breakaways or solo attackers. No more fiddling
> with J. Eustice or B. Roll trying to figure out who a particular rider
> is. Just look at the gps positioning readouts and you could tell
> instantly who's in the break.
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