Re: Lance - To Do Ironman 2006?

Yea, and all it takes to put the space shuttle into orbit is some fuel a tank and a spark. Done ;-)

I think there's a bit of simplification you're doing there. Maybe more than a bit.

-Andrew
Boulder, CO

Harold Buck wrote: 
In article <8pqif1l85o07s1n3i22587cjbi46av34d3@xxxxxxx>,
 User <user@xxx> wrote:


In essence, you have an unenforceable rule. If you want a
draft-prohibited bike race that is truly functional, you must do as
the elite professionals do: time trial with individual starts and a
car with a referee behind every cyclist. Anything else, and you have
a rule that is not enforceable and a sport that is not respectable.



Slap a GPS unit in with everyone's timing chip, write some software, and have the drafting penalties applied automatically. Done.

--Harold Buck


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 and party every day.
 Then it was every other day. . . ."
      -Homer J. Simpson

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