The Tour Of Goolwa uses the Orion transponders for timing which are the ones used by both the AHMCC and SDVLCC (usually yellow, sometimes the newer blue ones, but never red). MYLAPS TRANSPONDERS CANNOT BE USED. If any riders don’t have this type of transponder they will need to hire one for the weekend.
The charge for hiring an Orion (blue) transponder will be $20 which equates to $5 a race. This follows the standard used for CAMS transponder hiring this year. Riders will need to bring that money with them when they sign-on.
Also there may be some riders that may wish to purchase a transponder instead of hiring one and the cost of this is now $100. However as we are waiting for new stocks to arrive for Belgium (expected in early March) those riders who pay for a new transponder now will be loaned a transponder (free of charge) for any of our events until that new transponder is delivered to them.
Note that transponder costs seem to be continually rising. Our original yellow ones cost $20, the existing batch of blue ones cost $80 and the order we have just placed will cost us $100 each.
This year there will be a pre-race check of all transponders before sign-on.
Last year there were lots of dead, missing and reset transponders which caused no end of headaches for the timing crew. Therefore on Saturday morning before you sign-on you will need to take your bike to one of the timing crew who will then check your transponder is working. They will then give you a chit so that the sign-on desk know your transponder has been checked. If you don’t present the chit, you can’t sign on.
Finally if you are swapping bikes between stages, remember to move your transponder across.