COME TO BARCELONA AND ENJOY IT!!
CMWC'97

5th Cycle Messengers World Championship

Barcelona
August 29th-31st.
KEEP THE SPIRIT!!




As usual we have some points to have in mine...

CMWC'97 has an insurance and it covers medical, accident assistance, death, permanent dissablement and civil responsability, others circunstances will be under your own risk and you'll sign a paper comfirming that.

RACES:

-messenger race, cargo race, sprints, trials and bunny hop.
please note: To take part in the event means to accept the rules, no chance to discus.
Helmet is obligatory only in the finals.
The race jury will take decissions to the eventual problems.

MESSENGER RACE, CARGO RACE.

It will be only one qualifying head on Saturday, the final will be on Sunday morning. The race track is about 2.000 meters and 5 checkpoints but you'll have to cover a longer distance and stamp in a same checkpoint more than one time. In the race track you'll find obstacles. The qualifying heat will start at 10 a.m. and will finish at 9 p.m. with a break of two hours during the afternoon. The competitors will have a manifest at the beggining of the heat and will have to cover the race track following the order of this manifest, respecting the one way direction of the race track (see the next map). To ride in wrong direction means disqualification. Before start the race, you'll have a manifest and it will be stamped with the time you're starting and at the end of your job will be stamped again with the time you're finishing (you'll complete the route in about 30-45 minutes).
Your manifest will have to be completed with this times and all the stamps of the chekpoints, if not you'll be out. You only receive a stamp if the order on the manifest is rigth. When you'll be racing, the packages has to be inside your bag, and only can be your hands and the checkpoints. If you lost or damage the package you'll be out. At the checkpoints the racers will be served in order of arrival, please don't hit or push your mates to be served first, OK?
In one of the checkpoints your bike has to be locked, if not you know...(use the lock you prefer, but be sure it¥s a good lock, we have good thieves, we repeat; good thieves).
The final will have the same race track with only a few modifications, and longer time (about 1 hour and a half).

SPRINTS.

Eliminations heads on Saturday. 10 competitors per head. Distance: about 300 meters. Finals on Sunday morning.

BUNNY HOP.

Elimination heads on Saturday. We will start at 20 cm, 30 cm and from 35 to 50 cm in steps of 5 cm. For all the heights. You'll have two tries. After 50 cm the eight rises in 2 cm steps afterwards and you'll still three tries. Final on Sunday morning.

TRIALS.

Only one head on Saturday evening before the concert starts.

BEST TEAM PRIZES.

The meaning of the prizes is to reward that the team with more regularity and joined during all the events of the champs. We did the rules trying to be the most fair possible. Looking for the equality beetwen the heads and their importance, the number of the competitors, and the numeric differences beetwen men and women.



KIND OF HEAT
NUMBER POINTS
NUMBER POINTS
NUMBER POINTS
1st CLASSIFICATED
2nd CLASSIFICATED
3rd CLASSIFICATED
Individual male
100
75
50
Individual female
100
75
50
Sprint male
50
25
15
Sprint female
50
25
15
Trial male
45
20
10
Trial female
45
20
10
Bunny hop male
40
20
10
Bunny hop female
40
20
10
Cargo bike male
40
20
10
Cargo bike female
40
20
10


OTHERS PRIZES



All these prizes will be given by a jury formed by CMWC'97 Organization Comitee, the sponsors of the different prizes and volunteers beetwen the competitors.

MEETING POINTS, LAST REGISTRATIONS AND USEFUL INFORMATION.

From August 25th to 28th:
Trèvol Missatgers Office (meeting point #1)

August 29th:
"Parc del Poble Nou" (meeting point #2)
Carrer Carmen Amaya (between LLacuna and Bisbe Climent)

CMWC'97 Hot-line: 939-753468 (mobile phone)

HOW TO ARRIVE.

Seek your own way, you are couriers. But we can give some help:

By car, from French border:
Highway A-7 and arriving to Barcelona, connect with A-19, take exit "Bac de Roda", meeting point #1 is 500 meters far from this exit.
Highway A-7 and arriving to Barcelona, connect with B-10 Litoral, take exit #23, meeting point is 50 meters far from this exit.N-II arriving to Barcelona, connections with A-7, A-19 and B-10.

On Bike: From the north, take N-II, be careful with connections to highways. Don't take them.

By Train: Arrivals to Sants and França stations.

By Plane: Arrivals to Barcelona-El Prat- Airport, stopping trains to Sants station.


To all the people interested