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    Posted: 13 September 2015 at 10:13pm
Battle Mountain starts tomorrow - with the Liverpool uni ARION machine who've successfully made it out there judging by their recent facebook photos...
Are there any blogs/websites going covering results for each day?
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I've found Mr Larrington's most excellent Automatic Diary: http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/


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Monday Qualifying Run
 
 
From Google translate:
 
"Early in the morning we are working. The members of the ULV set off for testing. Because a few falls Arion one is quite damaged. They need to work to sand".
 
What will define this team is how they recover from setbacks. Keeping all fingers and toes crossed for them.
 
It looks like Delft had some damage to their Velox V machine.
 
But this link sounds more positive and no mention of a fall or damage to Arion1
 

"The weather looked positively evil at 6 am at the Super 8, and there was a big green blog approaching from the south on the radar, but we all headed out to the course just in case. It turned out to be a very busy morning of qualifying runs on the 2.5 mile course, although most of the runs were not wind legal.

Liverpool’s bike Arion1 looked great in its fancy livery. Ken went 58 mph, and Dave went 51 mph.

Natasha has had problems riding it, so she has elected to race an unfaired M5".
 
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Legs Larry's blog seems to echo the 2nd post.
 


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There's some photos here: http://s1024.photobucket.com/user/russellbridge/library/2015-09%20ARION of the ARION bike from the launch at Liverpool University 1st Sept.

(ps in one of the photos Andrew isn't dancing the twist, he's wearing an Oculus Rift VR headset looking at the underneath of a virtual 3D model of ARION Smile)
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Looks like very superficial damage that has not even gone through the vinyl sticker here:
 
https://jnyyz.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/dsc01929.jpg
 
Weather does not sound great for the Tues run.
 
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Monday night was called off as even the most nails rider[1] finds it difficult to cope with a gale-impelled sandstorm.  Tuesday am was bit blowy still and a lot cooler than Monday morning; Ellen van Vugt bagged a women's multi-track WR on the short course in Garrie Hill's CO2 (a replica of the former trike record holder Completely Overzealous).  Dave Collins ran for the Scousers but dropped a chain and coasted through at 39 mph; the scrapes on the fairing are from practice mishaps, mostly Natasha failing to balance it.  Todd Reichert in Eta was well over 81 mph but not with a legal wind.

Velox V didn't appear this morning even though the bike had been pronounced fit and healthy by tech inspector George Gently Leone.  Which means they can't run tonight either as neither Robert nor Lieske has done a qualifying run.  They've got two fairings and may be running the plain white backup one tomorrow while they patch up the damage to the Shiny one.

I'm loosely affiliated with Team Cygnus this year as Thomas van Schaik has recently relocated to China to work as a Western Half-Devil, or possibly a Monster Face.
Have you seen these people?
"Our" boy Jan-Marcel van Dijken has had two qualifying runs and dropped a chain on both.  Not the same chain either.  But he did a 76 on the long course and seems happy with progress so far.

BHPC is well-represented with Sherri joining Jonathan and me yesterday after holing up in Tonopah on Sunday night because of the 'orrible weather.  Peering out of the window, it looks to be brightening up so hopefully tonight will bring some better fortune.

The car park is awash with tool-wielding apes putting together the Seiran (at least I think that's what it's called) for local gal Teagan Patterson.  Bike designed and built by Mark Anderson and Eric Ware of Wedge fame in Minnesota; much of it nicked from the trailer Saturday night in Salt Lake City, but subsequently recovered, along with quite a quantity of other people's property and some very thick crims, from a stolen car by the SLC rozzers.  Mark's not happy unless he's got stuff to take apart and put back together anyway.  You hear that, Mr. Anderson?  That is the sound of inevitability.

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a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
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Many thanks Dave!!

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By the way Natasha is now aiming to break the unfaired record as well as nicking the British ladies record from Claire, all on her M5 Highracer. 

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Bah! What is Claire's record? Was that set at Bruntingthorpe?
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Best I could find for Claire was the 39.something at Bentwaters.

Evening session rained out.  Bah encore!
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