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No participant may compete without wearing a cycling helmet. Only commercially produced helmets, meeting ANSI Z90/4 or Snell standards, may be worn. Gloves are recommended.

2.

Participants must be older than the age of 12 years on the day of the Cycle Challenge. Special dispensation may be applied for in writing to the Race Office.  

3.

Participants must obey the instructions of the traffic officers and marshals and comply strictly with the rules of the road, save where authorised by traffic officers and marshals. In particular, participants are warned to keep to the left of the road and to remain on the sections of the road demarcated for them. Participants may be required to stop at certain intersections.

4.

Only conventional bicycles and conventional tandems may be ridden. BMX bicycles and tandems with disc or covered wheels are deemed to be conventional. Bicycles and tandems with fairing or attachments to improve airflow, supine recumbent, extended bicycles, tricycles, machines known as human powered vehicles (HPVs) and other similar machines are deemed to be unconventional and are not permitted to enter without the express permission of the organisers. Please apply for special dispensation in writing to the Race Office.

4.1.

Bicycles, tandems and other machines fitted with unconventional handlebars including triathlon-bars, aerobars, clip-ons, prayer-bars, turned-up-bars and cow-bars are not permitted in any category. ATB bar-ends are permitted on Mountain Bikes.

4.2.

Any participant who is in any doubt whether his bicycle, tandem or machine may be ridden in the event and, if so, in which category, is advised to contact the organisers well beforehand.

5.

RaceTec, previously Winning Time, is the official timing company to the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge 2010. If you wish to receive an official time you must wear your personal RaceTec Chip. All licensed racing groups competing for prize money MUST wear a Racetec Chip to be eligible for a result and prize money. If you do not wear a Racetec Chip you will not receive a result. No protest will be entertained in this regard. RaceTec Chips can be purchased directly from RaceTec on 086 184 6464 or queries@racetec.co.za.

6.

Only cyclists with a valid Cycling South Africa (Cycling SA) license and have the required seeding index will be permitted to start in the Elite and U23, Junior, Juvenile (U16), and Veterans categories for both ladies and men. Restricted gears apply for Juniors and Juveniles. All licensed racing groups competing for prize money MUST wear a Racetec Chip to be eligible for a result and prize money. If you do not wear a Racetec Chip you will not receive a result. No protest will be entertained in this regard. The size of all these groups will be limited to the top 200 qualifiers based on their Racetec results as per CSA rulings. Licenses must be available for view at registration and on race day. No day licenses will be issued at registration???. Race organisers are not responsible for the collection and return of licenses. All licensed riders are to abide by Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge and CSA rules and regulations. The first open groups A, B and C are MALE ONLY. Any women found starting in these groups WILL BE DISQUALIFIED

7.

The Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge seeds according to the results available on the Racetec database, using Racetec timed events, NOT according to the Cycle Lab seeding index. These events are given a weighting according to their individual difficulty. We use individual weighting which total 100 and your index will be based on a total of your indeces. If you only have one result for the previous 12 months and it is of a non equivalent weighting you will receive a total of greater than 100 and will then fall into the unseeded category. The event seeds on events of no more than 12 months old. No events older than 12 months will be considered. Seeding is at the discretion of the organisers and any seeding queries should be directed to the Seeding Committee in writing at the Race Office. Cyclists without a seeding index will be seeded according to their date of entry - the earlier you enter the earlier your start time will be. Only the top Cycling South Africa licensed cyclists will be allowed to start in the U16, Junior, U23, Elite and Veteran categories for both men and women.
Vets categories will be as per UCI categories: 30-34 and 35-39, 40-44, 45- 49, 50-54, 55-59 and 60+. The sizes of these groups will be limited to the best seeded cyclists per group based on their individually determined seeding index.
The U16 and Junior categories will adhere to the requirements of criteria
necessary to participate in that category including restricted gears.
Seeding, start groups and start times will be emailed and/or sms’d to
you and will be available from mid October 2010 on www.cyclechallenge.co.za. Seeding is the process that puts cyclists of similar ability into the same starting group. It is done to ensure a safe event and to place cyclists with others against whom they can compete enjoyably. Cyclists who believe they have been incorrectly seeded may apply for re-seeding. Re-seeding may be done at the sole discretion of the organisers who will require proof of ability in the form of results. A re-seeding fee is payable if results used are not from the qualifying events. A cyclist may not start in a group with a better seeding, but may move down to a slower group without being penalised. Cyclists starting ahead of their official start group will be disqualified. No protest will be entertained in this regard

8.

Participants must complete the course entirely under their own power and slipstreaming any vehicle or motorbike is prohibited.

9.

No participant may cause or allow any motorised or human powered machine, other than that of another participant, to follow or second him/her.

10.

Only the official licensed racing categories will be allowed support vehicles on route. Support vehicles must be accredited by the organisers and CSA. Non accredited vehicles will be removed from the route. Support vehicles MUST drive with the safety of all cyclists, marshals and route support vehicles as a priority. Failure to do so will result in the racing team they are supporting being disqualified. All support teams must be in possession of a valid CSA managers license.  

11.

The routes will be as supplied and participants must familiarise themselves with the route they are riding. The organisers reserve the right to alter the routes in accordance with safety, traffic, construction or other constraints. No protest relating to deviation will be entertained.

12.

The organisers may, at their discretion, decline an entry from anyone who is under suspension or has been banned by any sports controlling body for having used illegal drugs or any other substances; refuse to allow anyone to participate in the race where good grounds exist for such a refusal.

13.

Four jersey’s are going to be introduced to the 2009 Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge including:

Yellow Jersey: shortest time (I.e. winner of the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge)

Green Jersey: overall winner of both hotspots (points)

Polka Dot Jersey: overall winner of both King of the Mountain (points)

White Jersey: best placed young rider (U23)

Points will be awarded as follows:

Rules and Guidelines

When the rider enters the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge, he/she agrees to be part of the jersey competition.

All jersey winners are obliged to wear the jersey on the podium at prize giving for a photo opportunity If you do not agree to wear the jersey on the stage at prizegiving for a photo opportunity, you will forfeit your prize money

Jersey winners are obliged to race the following year in the awarded jersey. Should the rider not agree to this, their entry will be disqualified for that year.

It is agreed that the rider’s sponsor logo will appear in the block on the front and rear of the jersey.

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You MAY NOT sell your number, or allow anyone else to ride under that number. Should you be in breach of this you will be immediately disqualified and banned from participating in the Momentum 94.7 Cycle
Challenge for 5 years. No protest will be entertained in this regard. You may organise a substitution with the Race Office which can be done for a fee of R100.00. The original entry fee will not be refunded. The person who is being substituted will have their number removed from the database and a new number will be allocated. Seeding will be according to the new participants individual seeding index.

15.

Failure to comply with any of the foregoing rules may result in disqualification. A protest committee will adjudicate any dispute, including one regarding the interpretation of these rules, and its ruling shall be final and binding. Protests must be submitted in writing within 2 hours of the finishing time to which the protest applies and be accompanied by a deposit of R100. The deposit will be refunded if the protest is upheld.

16.

Participants must complete the course in 6 hours or less, in order to qualify as finishers and to receive a medal. Participants who fail to reach the cut-off points in a specified time will be withdrawn and will not be permitted to continue. Cut-off times will be published in the race pack and will be strictly adhered to. Support services will similarly be withdrawn for that section of the route and the route will be opened to normal traffic. No protest will be entertained in this regard.

17.

In a Ride-Together team there is no limit to the number of participants per Ride-Together. Each participant with a seeding index will be allocated their start time, and all unseeded members will be seeded in the same unseeded start group. Seeded cyclists must drop down to the unseeded start time if they wish to ride together. No requests to seed unseeded cyclists earlier will be entertained.

17.1.

Corporate Bonds

17.2.

Charity Groups

18.

The entry fee is R270.00 (Click here for breakdown) ENTRY FEES ARE NON REFUNDABLE. If the Race Office has received your entry but your payment remains outstanding at the close of entries, 20 September 2010, the entry will be considered a late entry and will therefore incur a penalty of R200.00. An entry is not considered valid until payment has been received. No protest will be entertained in this regard.

19.

Waiver: Participants take part entirely at their own risk and agree that they shall have no claim whatsoever against the organising body, any individual or official marshal, assistant, helper or agent, the sponsors or any local authority or their employees, in respect of any loss or damage whatsoever which participants may suffer arising from any injury to their person or loss or damage to their property as a result of, or arising out of, whether directly or indirectly, the participants' arrival and departure there from, attendance at registration, prize-giving or other function thereof, any loss or damage to bicycles or other equipment, however such loss or damage may arise regardless of whether or not the same shall have been caused directly or indirectly by the negligence, albeit gross, of one or more of all the aforementioned parties. Persons signing this entry form as guardian of a minor hereby consent to such minor being bound by the a foregoing and further indemnify the organisers and aforementioned parties to the extent, of any, to which such minor is not capable of waiving his/her rights as stipulated above.