Lap Timers? - Use and thoughts...
 

Running out of things to spend time and money on....I wish.

Any thoughts and recommendations?

Roll Centre T100 - basic but, does the job. It's wot I use. The T200 has the facility to hook up to a pc if you want to download your data.

Don't bother buying a beacon - every circuit I raced at in 2005 had a beacon anyway. If it's turned off then you can always piggy back onto somebody else's beacon.

Hi Chris,

Just bought a T200 direct from rollcentre £99+vat, came two days later. I'll be using it for TDs, free practice, timed practice, but probably not during the race. Got to have one, if only to stop me hanging around waiting for timing sheets....

Ali

I found mine very useful when doing timed practice at MRO and setup. I took it off for race use as the only thing that matters is where you finish. Make sure you take spare batteries for it - my T100 seems to devour the damn things even when it's turned "off".

I may be on my own here but my season last year improved when I ignored the lap times and just rode the bike LOL
So for me I don't run one :)

It's pretty much essential if you are running timed qualifying imo. You need to know where you are.

I can see it has its uses, in qualifying tho you wont know what everyone else is doing tho ?

I find my t200 is helpful during practice days when you can swap gearing and see how it effects your lap times.
Once the gearing is sorted it becomes fairly redundent, I have it turned on in untimed and timed quallifying but only to check at the end to see what lap times I was doing

You will normally have some idea of what a competitive pace is if you've done your homework. One thing to remember is not to spend yime watching the timer too often!

What I often did was go out and for a few laps just warm the bike and tyres up, then I'd run off a few quick laps to qualify and then I'd slow down again, check the times and, then put a few more in the bag for safety if needed.

They're a useful tool - not a panacea. And I don't need one to tell me when I'm riding like a dick. :lol:

I dont need any more reasons to spend money so I'm not having one on my DD bike LOL ;) ;)

Maybe next year when it's an 800 :)

Make your mind up! 800 or 1000? Minitwins or Thunderbikes?

Be prepared for pain with the 800 and Minitwins if you go that route. The 800 makes too much power too easily and reigning it back in is difficult.

Really hmmm, the 1000 is for a road bike :)

Yes really. :lol:

The 1000 is a very fine bike - I would like one although a tweaked 800 is very close and very sweet.

My wife very kindly bought me one of the new AIM lap timers for my birthday, in its basic form not a lot dearer than the TT200.

Has added features such as a countdown timer triggered by the circuit beacon so if you've got 10mins qualifying the display will show that and count it down so you know where you are, will display lap times at the same time.

You can programme in circuit names and record your laptimes within these folders.

When it comes to race time you can programme in no. of laps if you wish and it will countdown these to the finish along with lap times.

The download options with the software available are superior to the TT range too (I believe).

Having said all of that I haven't used it yet and no, before anyone gets smart, it does'nt read in days and weeks :frog:

I'm selling my T200 as it's not getting used enough. (3 times last year).

£100 inc postage if you want it.