Deactivation Of Cut Outs

[Dickie Head]

Got to get this off my chest. Has anyone noticed that riders are now regularly removing their cut out connectors from their wrists before reaching the pits after a race is completed. Last week Cameron Heeps took his off in heat 15 of Oxford v Poole on the third bend of the last lap when at the back. I know you can argue it’s low level risk but why not keep it attached until the motor is deadened? Must be some rule or other about this?

[MARK246]

3 hours ago, Dickie Head said:

Got to get this off my chest. Has anyone noticed that riders are now regularly removing their cut out connectors from their wrists before reaching the pits after a race is completed. Last week Cameron Heeps took his off in heat 15 of Oxford v Poole on the third bend of the last lap when at the back. I know you can argue it’s low level risk but why not keep it attached until the motor is deadened? Must be some rule or other about this?

I have posted similar on this forum before, only to be shot down by those 'in the know' that. Throttles never stick, cut outs always work, it's no risk. Despite the rule book stating the lanyard must be attached whilst the motor is running. 

It is, after all only a rule 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by MARK246

[IainB]

Yes I have... and I also have posted about it several times.

... and don't get me started about practice starts without helmets... when is a practice start not a practice start?

... and flashing lights on tractors! FLASHING LIGHTS ON TRACTORS!! 🚜 🚨

Edited 10 hours ago by IainB

[MARK246]

52 minutes ago, IainB said:

Yes I have... and I also have posted about it several times.

... and don't get me started about practice starts without helmets... when is a practice start not a practice start?

... and flashing lights on tractors! FLASHING LIGHTS ON TRACTORS!! 🚜 🚨

The flashing light is due to a rider, I believe it was Swindon, running into a tractor on the parade lap.

[IainB]

23 minutes ago, MARK246 said:

The flashing light is due to a rider, I believe it was Swindon, running into a tractor on the parade lap.

Mark Thorpe if I remember correctly... I was there that night. 

All these rules are there for a reason, probably insurance related (?) and if they're not adhered to they probably wouldn't pay out.

Edited 8 hours ago by IainB

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

8 hours ago, Dickie Head said:

Got to get this off my chest. Has anyone noticed that riders are now regularly removing their cut out connectors from their wrists before reaching the pits after a race is completed. Last week Cameron Heeps took his off in heat 15 of Oxford v Poole on the third bend of the last lap when at the back. I know you can argue it’s low level risk but why not keep it attached until the motor is deadened? Must be some rule or other about this?

It is a rule but not an in-forced one but to be honest I don’t care, not something I ever did myself and if a rider feels ok doing it then so what, personally I hate stupid rules like not riding in pits or wearing helmets on parade and doing a start and there are many more, there is a no smoking in pits rule but you would always see Peter Adams leaning up against a pit post with a fag in his hand 

Edited 5 hours ago by THE DEAN MACHINE

[IainB]

2 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

It is a rule but not an in-forced one but to be honest I don’t care, not something I ever did myself and if a rider feels ok doing it then so what, personally I hate stupid rules like not riding in pits or wearing helmets on parade and doing a start and there are many more, there is a no smoking in pits rule but you would always see Peter Adams leaning up against a pit post with a fag in his hand 

Should get these rules out of the rulebook then... or enforce them, rules shouldn't be optional from either side, that's a very big problem with Speedway and it's not getting any better. 

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

31 minutes ago, IainB said:

Should get these rules out of the rulebook then... or enforce them, rules shouldn't be optional from either side, that's a very big problem with Speedway and it's not getting any better. 

A lot of these rules are expected by outside bodies like health and safety 

[IainB]

4 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

A lot of these rules are expected by outside bodies like health and safety 

If that's the case and anything were to happen and if the rules hadn't been followed the HSE would shut them straight down I'd have thought

[tyretrax]

6 hours ago, IainB said:

Yes I have... and I also have posted about it several times.

... and don't get me started about practice starts without helmets... when is a practice start not a practice start?

... and flashing lights on tractors! FLASHING LIGHTS ON TRACTORS!! 🚜 🚨

It's probably a legal requirement, plant machinery on building sites have an amber and green flashing lights. I know we had to fit one at Shawfield Greyhounds.

[piston197]

7 hours ago, MARK246 said:

The flashing light is due to a rider, I believe it was Swindon, running into a tractor on the parade lap.

Scott Smith did it at Newport as well, hit the back of the tractor raking the surface, came off and the bike continued it's ride around the track fully upright on the back of the rake !

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

1 hour ago, IainB said:

If that's the case and anything were to happen and if the rules hadn't been followed the HSE would shut them straight down I'd have thought

They have their moments,not helped by that dickhead fan power,Nora no longer do bike scrutineering because of an incident where someone tried to sue them, up till now HSE seem to understand motorsport is dangerous and everyone does it of their own free will so don’t really get involved too much 

Edited 1 hour ago by THE DEAN MACHINE