In a message dated 6/23/00 11:49:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
alliancemillsoft@worldnet.att.net writes:
> CSCC in Columbus Indiana uses multi colored and multi sized cones.
Personally
> it
> doesn't bother me much but most people hate it. To top it off the CSCC
> courses are
> fast so most people could never take the time to analyse cone size or
color
> during
> a run anyway. I know thier attendence would go up with other autocrossers
> out of
> the region if they used regular cones, but they may not want that. They
seem
> to be
> a pretty tight group. Sorry to digress.
Interesting...hadn't noticed that about those guys, but then it's been nearly
2 years since running there. Also hadn't noticed the use of different cones.
> The one place where different colored cones would make sense would be for
> slalom
> cones ... and perhaps pointer cones. However I think that all the cones
> should be
> the same size. Just my opinion.
>
> John Whitling
>
One of the local clubs used yellow and orange cones to mark the insides and
outsides of the course. To be honest, I never even noticed until the end of
the day. My experience has been since the beginning if you know what to look
for in a course, it will jump out at you with or without specially sized,
marked, or colored cones. I think it took about a season and a half for me
to get that experience. Still, marking the apexes in some way may help the
novices. Any more than one extra color would probably be more of a
distraction than anything.
Rick Hendricks
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