Anybody tried these ?
Looks a bit basic but gives you all the info you need to see how well you’re doing, or not . . . 
Dunno, but £250 is a fair amount of wedge…although you could easily hire it out on trackdays on the sly…
The other ones I’ve seen are £600+ which isn’t worth it for a few td’s a year but this does basic track mapping which looked good.
I like the idea of hiring it out 
it looks like a good bit of kit…I need to replace my tachon on the 7…maybe this is the bit of kit for me too…ask if you can get a discount for two…
Alfano fun laptimers.
It works using magnetic strips that are at all major circuits so are very accurate.
Best place to look is www.alfano.be
and a damn site cheaper. can pick them up on ebay for around the 100 quid mark and plenty of people use them and they are always within 1/100th of the transponder times on race days.
looks cool. just silverstone missing from the list as far as i can tell?
RegionTrack nameNumber of strips-AGHADOWEY1-ANGLESEY2-BEDFORD1-BISHOPCOURT1-BRANDS HATCH1-BRUNTINGTHORPE1-CADWELL PARK1-CASTLE COMBE 1-CROFT1-DARLEY MOORE 1-DONINGTON1-ELVINGTON1-FOXHALL1-JURBY (IOM)1-KIRKISTON2-KNOCKHILL3-LYDDEN HILL 1-NUTTSCORNER1-OLIVERS MOUNT1-OULTON 1-ROCKINGHAM 1-SNETTERTON1-SWAFFAHM1-TEESIDE1-THREE SISTERS 3-YARMOUTH1
Hmmm - I need one of these if anyone has one they want to sell!? 
Mallory is not there either.
Alfano stuff is good, even on trackdays you dont have to faff about trying to hide your beacon if the track one isnt on.
The cheaper ones don’t give you track analysis, have a look at the manual for the software: http://www.starlane.com/manuali/DRLE2_Ing.pdf
You can overlay the route you took on each lap with the speed and see which line was faster, how each lap compares etc. All fun and games 
Could also be useful on the road too, I can the breakfast run swapping it between bikes . . .
Uses GPS so no need to have magnetic or infra-red beacons, maps the track as you ride, 999 lap memory, download to laptop etc.
I’d be surprised if the accuracy of the gps was up to it. If a difference of a few feet in position in your lines going through a corner are important, then I wouldn’t expect GPS to give you that level of accuracy (because of a combination of: (1) GPS being not 100% accurate anyway, unless you’re running a top notch GPS system and have visibility of loads of satellites, and (2) unless your top notch GPS system refreshes and refixes its plotting so often that it keeps accuracy even though you’re going at a squillion mph.
But what do I know?
If it’s similar to the AiM Mychron system then they use speed and acceleration as well as position to know where you are at certain points. The magnetic strip will possibly give the racers a more accurate figure but my lap times will probably vary by more than the difference between the first 15 riders :hehe:
That’s pretty cool then.
hhummm might have to get one for my track bike
Or have your bro standing at a point on start/finish straight using mobile phone stopwatch facility (less obtrusive - could be texting for all they know…)
Good enough for a trackday!!!
I’ve found out that my bike has a built in stopwatch
Although I wouldn’t want to be messing around with it, whilst going flat out down a start/finish straight!
Yeah, I don’t think I ever touched the timer on my zx6r. I probably would have ended up inidcating or something like that.
A good GPS would be pretty accurate, with WAAS enabled your down to a few metres accuracy. Garmin’s I’ve used are good at reckoning your position too.
give me 250 quid and ill sand by the finish line with me casio
We sell alot of these to the professional club racers (especially in the US and Canada). Everybody seems real pleased with them, but there seems to be a learning curve with downloading the data.
Patrick
Toy Store