The Yellow Jacket

[YoungChazz]

On the Tour De France bicycle race, each day the person who is leading the race at that point gets to wear the yellow jacket for the day. It's quite an honor.

Has anyone noticed Ellis' yellow wing? At the conclusion of Southport A - 2, Stafford realized he had the Championship, regardless of the outcome of A - 3, so he put on the yellow wing, symbolic of the leader, and you see it in pix of A - 3 and following the race.

I think it's a major idea, that it should carry forward. Whoever is leading in the Championship should wear a yellow wing. Last year's Champ starts out with it at the first race, then it changes from there.

Kind of an unofficial, fun thing.

Any comments?

[ben]

Good idea. BUT yellow is sorta gay haha. :p

[bigred5765]

ace idea chazz,like it

[Chris Doughty]

one thing I thought up,

each A finalist gets a window sticker or symbol, then you can aim to rack up as many as possible during the season.

I never had the time or funds to make up a sticker sheet.

it would be an ace photo thing too, you could have someone like Cragg, Pidge or Ellis rocking a full 6 set at the end of the year.

and a new boy A finalist would frame the body with the A-main sticker on it!

[Wraggy]

BUT yellow is sorta gay haha. :p
Really Ben ?? http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/2008national-southport/4wd/bigimages/OOP_6525.jpg

[ben]

Really Ben ?? http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/2008national-southport/4wd/bigimages/OOP_6525.jpg

Yep you heard me loud and clear:) Yellow is GAY. But GAY also means happy. (just put that bit in so i dont get the s#@t beaten out of me)

[Stu]

I heard it said that the yellow wing for was better visibility. The shadows late in the day on the back section at Southport make a darker car tricky to see.

Nice idea though.

Do I sound like I know what I'm on about - if I do, I don't.

[Mrs oOple]

Stu, you never sound as though you know what you are on about. Apart from that one time at Kidderminster when the chavs came after you.

[bigred5765]

was it a scream or a war cry stu let out ?

[Stu]

I bored them into total submission.

[MK999]

Confusing chavs is the best, I once managed to make one feck off by saying him calling me gay was rather ironic... it was met with "eh, whut?" :p

[millzy]

simple answer -No


make them run yellow wheels and look extra gay--- no wait even better yellow jc spoked gay wheels!!!

no theres somthing you would only run if you where backed by JC and forced to.

[GRIFF55]

simple answer -No

make them run yellow wheels and look extra gay--- no wait even better yellow jc spoked gay wheels!!!
no theres somthing you would only run if you where backed by JC and forced to.

Hey sucka, you playing me for a foooool??!! Have you got any spare?:woot::p

[millzy]

nooooooooo you dont have these do ya

[Garry Driffill]

Yellow wheels are ace! I prefare them to white wheels, I found it made a difference for me :D

[ben]

Whats the difference u found garry?
I heard they make u go slower:confused:

[Garry Driffill]

I like them `cos i can see them better :D plus yellow wheels go better with my X-6 shell !

Who said they make you go slower?

[ben]

Who didnt say they make you go slow garry:)

[Kopite]

yellow wheels rock! and i can see them better on tight corners :)

anything but spoke i say, gay gay gay

[Lee]

You cant beat the good old yellow/white wheel gay debate :thumbsup:

[ben]

haha stan. Yellow is gayererer than spoked wheels though:thumbsup:

[millzy]

yellow wheels rock! and i can see them better on tight corners :)

anything but spoke i say, gay gay gay


see kids homo boy liked yellow wheels.. say no to drugs and no to yellow wheels . zammo says so

[Garry Driffill]

Ben you said that "You heard they make you go slower" - Im wondering were you heard this :p

The Be and end all of it is Ben is gay, Yellow wheels are ace !

[Oliv996]

...
I think it's a major idea, that it should carry forward. Whoever is leading in the Championship should wear a yellow wing. Last year's Champ starts out with it at the first race, then it changes from there.

Kind of an unofficial, fun thing.

Any comments?

Hi Chazz,

You're probably the most frenchiest US guy :woot::thumbsup:

It could be the best idea of this summer i've ever heard :D

Cheers

[telboy]

Everyone says that yellow wheels make you slower...don't know how like.

I prefer them cos I can see the car better.
Man! I like yellow so much that I'm gonna do my next shells yellow!!

:thumbsup:

[Nick Goodall]

Haha think how bad Lee's car would look with a YELLOW wing.....

I think the best thing would be to give the current Championship leader (at the start of the day) Either Yellow Number stickers, or Red ones (Like in Motocross the World Championship leader has a Red plate) - That's enough of a difference surely?

I just think Yellow wings are only going to look ok on a few cars, but mostly not so good.......

[millzy]

Haha think how bad Lee's car would look with a YELLOW wing.....

I think the best thing would be to give the current Championship leader (at the start of the day) Either Yellow Number stickers, or Red ones (Like in Motocross the World Championship leader has a Red plate) - That's enough of a difference surely?

I just think Yellow wings are only going to look ok on a few cars, but mostly not so good.......

better than the brown/orange one he had at EPR

[Oliv996]

...
I just think Yellow wings are only going to look ok on a few cars, but mostly not so good.......

As Chazz said, wearing the yellow jacket is an honor and the guy inside may dislike yellow color as a yellow wing doesn't fit with bodyshell colors :D

[Kopite]

could just paint all their skin with bright yellow house paint, then the BRCA provide (free of charge) a chemical paint stripper for the removal at the end of the day

DO I HAVE TO THINK OF EVERYTHING??

[Lee]

paint stripper

DO I HAVE TO THINK OF EVERYTHING??

MMMMMmmmmmmmm stripper :drool::drool::drool:

[Nick Goodall]

As Chazz said, wearing the yellow jacket is an honor and the guy inside may dislike yellow color as a yellow wing doesn't fit with bodyshell colors :D

I don't know about anyone else but i always hated driving a car if it looked crap or the wing was an odd colour (i.e when you borrow one etc) so i think it would put people off...

I vote for Yellow number surrounds with Black writing, or Red with White writing (MX Style)

[Oliv996]

Chazz, tell us the story about the white with red dots jacket :woot:

Could be the wing colors for TQ guy ;)

just my two cents :blush:

[GRIFF55]

one snag with a yellow wing. Wouldn't be very individual because there are alot of guys running yellow shell colours.
I'm with nick on the coloured plate backgrounds. red like in the ama lites class:thumbsup:

[Lee]

Agreed Griff, people would wonder why wraggy in not in the top heat all the time :woot:

[YoungChazz]

I hope we're returning to the point instead of the usual BS that makes most forums disgusting wastes of time.

The point here is whether to have some sort of unofficial system whereby the current points leader carries an identifiable honor. At the Tour, the fact that the jacket is yellow may be "gay" to some, but everyone who follows cycling knows exactly what it means and I guarantee you everyone who has ever worn it did so with the utmost pride in accomplishment.

Those who disdain it for whatever reason probably do so from jealousy.

So, if it's different colored stickers, or a yellow wing, or purple wheels, or a glow-in-the-dark antenna tube (Brian's glows his turquoise color) the point here is to have an identifier for the leader. And the question is: Should there be such an identifier? If the answer to that question is, "yes," then we can set about figuring out what it should be.

This idea is actually Ellis' and he did it on his own. Realizing that Southport was the same weekend as the Tour, and realizing that he night wrap up the Championship there, he painted a yellow wing and put it in his pit box. (On reflection, he says he will paint it a different shade of yellow for next time.) It looks ugly with his scheme, but it identifies the leader just like in the Tour.

At the end of A - 2 Ellis knew he had it wrapped up, so he installed the yellow wing. I think that some sort of identifier is a great idea, and having something that connects with the Tour's famous identifier is good. I have encouraged Ellis to keep it at Stotfold, but the choice is his.

And I think Ellis' regular blue wing, with its custom decals, is major. But I also think he may have started a cool tradition. All traditions were started sometime by someone...

[Lee]

I think its a really good idea Chazz:thumbsup:

I know not everyone will agree that the yellow wing will look "cool" but something like a different colour number or a styled number 1 on the wing end plates might be cool.

[Chris Doughty]

I like the different coloured numbers idea, but I tried to get a numbers rule through the BRCA rules last year but it didn't get passed.

we have to run the BRCA round ones

[millzy]

nothing ever stays fully on topic chazz it not fun other wise :)

I like the red numbers idea that’s cool


Yellow wing is a shit idea it needs dropping now any fool could paint a wing yellow and say oh i won a championship

Where as the red stickers if they where done by the BRCA any only sent out to the previous years champion with there new licence in the post then it would make it every unique even if it was just a batch of numbers 1-10 in red for the driver to use when seeded in his heat at every round

[DCM]

is it true then, that the leaders in the Tour de'France when they wear the yellow jersey turn gay then?? is it just for the day.... or life lol

But realisticaly, the champ should have his own coloured number, that would be cool.

[stegger]

I like this idea with the yellow wing, how about expanding the idea and having a different coloured wing for the top F2,3,4,5.

[Wraggy]

I like this idea with the yellow wing, how about expanding the idea and having a different coloured wing for the top F2,3,4,5.
and what happens to these people who have a yellow wing as there colour scheme ??
cant see that one woriking to be honest

[millzy]

not like your going to win any of them wraggy so we can exclude your yellow one :):)

get a custom sticker done

I didnt win a championship but have a yellow wing becuase its my race colours

[stegger]

and what happens to these people who have a yellow wing as there colour scheme ??
cant see that one woriking to be honest
Or maybe some other marking then, different coloured brca numbers as somebody has already said.

[Nick Goodall]

It's all about the Red plate idea:

http://www.racerxill.com/images/articles/large/0000006676.jpeg

http://www.vitalmx.com/images/stories/2008/05/050708ys8.jpg

http://www.motocross.com/media/motocross/Photos/Rattray_500_051908.jpg

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/Photos/rv-jump.jpg

http://www.cmrcracing.com/news/images/Ramon%20no%201%20plate.jpg

[Kopite]

http://www.vitalmx.com/images/stories/2008/05/050708ys8.jpg





Would u?

[ben]

i would :)

[Lee]

ben you could tickle her :woot:

but yeah i would :thumbsup:

it would be rude not too

[millzy]

no ta

[stegger]

Lee you peedo:o give her another 12 months first. Ben get back to your sock:woot::woot::woot:

[Lee]

I think you will find its paedo ;)

And she only looks young to you because your so bloody old :woot: