I'm going to guess you never read the first post:
we oughta get in front of this and start deciding on the rules. for example:
1. can you draft off somebody not in your "race"?
2. should you be able to have any clip ons at all?
3. how deep should wheels be allowed to be?
4. are you obliged to retire if you're lapped?
5. should RDs be only allowed to have so many laps per race?
6. should there be any prerequisites to entering?
7. can you ride an MTB bike?
8. should we shit-can 1.3.073 entirely for draft legal?
plus other stuff i haven't yet considered, but that a number of you will.
To me, that's awfully clear that this was intended to be a discussion of what the rules should be, and what the majority of the people here have been discussing, except for you. Please, if you re-read this post and come up with a major theme of it out of it other than "what should we make the rules for Age Group Draft Legal races," I am VERY curious what your thought process is there. I cannot, for the life of me, backwards engineer a thought process to draw any other conclusion about the purpose of that post and by extension, this thread.
Additionally, the only rules specific to Elites for ITU are uniform requirements. Otherwise, there is one set of Competition Rules. In case you can't find them:
www.triathlon.org/uploads/docs/itusport_competition-rules_19022014v2-highlighted.pdf
There are sections on bicycle conduct for both draft-legal and draft-illegal events, but with no mention of who is racing. The equipment rules reference UCI Road Race, UCI Time Trial, and UCI MTB rules for draft-legal, draft-illegal, and winter/cross triathlon, respectively. The only mentions whatsoever of AG-specific rules in the entire set of competition rules are penalty assessment, wetsuit temperatures, the table discussing what races are draft-legal/draft-illegal (which obviously WILL have to change), and whether you have to wear shoes in winter triathlon.
IG: idking90
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lots more to write about this but my first shot is up on the home page. we oughta get in front of this and start deciding on the rules. for example:
1. can you draft off somebody not in your "race"?
2. should you be able to have any clip ons at all?
3. how deep should wheels be allowed to be?
4. are you obliged to retire if you're lapped?
5. should RDs be only allowed to have so many laps per race?
6. should there be any prerequisites to entering?
7. can you ride an MTB bike?
8. should we shit-can 1.3.073 entirely for draft legal?
plus other stuff i haven't yet considered, but that a number of you will.
To me, that's awfully clear that this was intended to be a discussion of what the rules should be, and what the majority of the people here have been discussing, except for you. Please, if you re-read this post and come up with a major theme of it out of it other than "what should we make the rules for Age Group Draft Legal races," I am VERY curious what your thought process is there. I cannot, for the life of me, backwards engineer a thought process to draw any other conclusion about the purpose of that post and by extension, this thread.
Additionally, the only rules specific to Elites for ITU are uniform requirements. Otherwise, there is one set of Competition Rules. In case you can't find them:
www.triathlon.org/uploads/docs/itusport_competition-rules_19022014v2-highlighted.pdf
There are sections on bicycle conduct for both draft-legal and draft-illegal events, but with no mention of who is racing. The equipment rules reference UCI Road Race, UCI Time Trial, and UCI MTB rules for draft-legal, draft-illegal, and winter/cross triathlon, respectively. The only mentions whatsoever of AG-specific rules in the entire set of competition rules are penalty assessment, wetsuit temperatures, the table discussing what races are draft-legal/draft-illegal (which obviously WILL have to change), and whether you have to wear shoes in winter triathlon.
IG: idking90