Pre Staging Bikes at a Race

It's very possible that an official moved it.  At Age Group Nationals the officials went into the transition area and moved some of the bikes around that had been racked incorrectly.  This is what the rules say:

7.2 Placement of Equipment.

All participants shall place equipment only in the properly designated and individually assigned bicycle corral and shall at all times keep their equipment confined to such properly designated areas. Any violation of this Section shall result in a variable time penalty.

7.3 Bicycle Placement.

All participants must return their bicycles to an upright position in the properly designated bicycle corral after completion of the cycling course and before beginning the next segment of the event. Any violation of this Section shall result in a variable time penalty.

Whether you hang the bike by your seat post or your handle bars the majority of your bike must be on the side of the rack where your assigned number is.  I guess some people were racking their bike in such a way that a good portion of it was on the wrong side of the rack.  It's the first time in 20 years I've ever heard of this being an issue.

But boy I get ticked off when people mess with my stuff in transition area.  At one race I did this year, I had set up my whole area, laid my wetsuit over part of the rack where my bike was going to be, and did my warm-up.  I came back and some idiot had put his bike on top of my wetsuit, and the middle of my stuff.  When I asked why he put his bike there his comment was, "the bike rack is for bikes, not wetsuits."  DUH!!!!  I pointed at my laid out gear, and again he repeated his remark about the rack being for bikes.  I decided I wasn't going to argue anymore, and I got my revenge by kicking his azz in the race.