Battle Mountain
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Topic: Battle Mountain
Posted By: GeoffBird
Subject: Battle Mountain
Date Posted: 08 September 2013 at 11:12pm
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I was reminded that Battle Mountain was about to start by a post on Facebook, so I thought I'd pass on the reminder. Graeme Obree has arrived! How fast will he be? Find out soon! Website: http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2013/speedchallenge.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2013/speedchallenge.htm Forum: http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=6" rel="nofollow - http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/forums/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=6 Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/123929127660938/" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/groups/123929127660938/ ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
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Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 09 September 2013 at 6:58am
| A less formal write up from Mr Larrington: http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/ |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 10 September 2013 at 12:22pm
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Hope he can get more speed out of it tonight... 47MPH is a bit disappointing. How fast do you think he'd need to go to call this a successful trip (assuming the record is well out of reach on that machine...)?? ------------- |
Posted By: Paul Lowing
Date Posted: 10 September 2013 at 3:01pm
| I would guess he would like to break the GB record... |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 10 September 2013 at 3:21pm
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Good thought Paul - I think that's about 67MPH?? Best of luck to him... ------------- |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 12 September 2013 at 10:36pm
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He's getting quicker - 53MPH into a headwind... ------------- |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 12 September 2013 at 10:42pm
Over halfway there then  (Actually 1/8th of the way there if you do the math) ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
Posted By: graydog
Date Posted: 13 September 2013 at 4:15pm
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http://obree.com/obree-news/329-graeme-captures-prone-human-powered-vehicle-record.html set to ry a recumbent :-) not that he has not been offered a go before in some vegatable names one...... |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 14 September 2013 at 1:25pm
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Graeme is apparently going to have a go at the British record in another machine (Vortex)... ------------- |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 14 September 2013 at 6:07pm
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Graeme's done 56.6mph. Lots of pictures here: http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2013/pictures.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2013/pictures.htm ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
Posted By: absolute beginner
Date Posted: 14 September 2013 at 8:08pm
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Hi All! Completely forgot about Graeme and his Beastie. A quick dose of internet OCD (youtube and search engine)and I'm up to speed. I seem to remember he was after 100mph. On Humans Invent website there's a podcast with a phone interview with Graeme. He openly accepted he wouldn't be the one to crack the ton. He did say the sums have been done and it's possible (but very reliant on perfect conditions,rider fitness, optimum design, etc.) I'm pleased he's set a prone record. The attempt at the British record was aborted 1 mile in with a mechanical issue I beleive this was in the Vortex. All the Best------------- too fat for too long, time to get fit again! |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 14 September 2013 at 8:18pm
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Apparently the chain came off when he tried to qualify in Vortex but he was hoping to have another go.... ------------- |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 15 September 2013 at 7:28am
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He had another go this morning and after a wobbly start did 43+ in Vortex. Not bad for a beginner, though Vortex is a genuine 70 mph bike; he did say that he wasn't very confident in it. Just back from the awards bash following the final runs of the week. This evening's weather was initially way too windy and a lot of people declined to run. Thins still looked rough from the halfway point, but in the important part of the track things had died away almost to nothing. You'll have to rely on my shaky handwriting for the result as Dr No hasn't put them up on the Intertubes yet, but Velox 3, powered by Sebastiaan Bowier, did 83.1-something, legal wind and start, for a new outright record. And I'm going to bed. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 15 September 2013 at 2:59pm
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83.13 mph is the final verdict. Way to go, Dutch dudes, and if you didn't show up with a a team of about twenty Penniless Student Oaves whom we time-served old gits can exploit for salve labour, this event would fall apart tomorrow. What kind of a TV station broadcasts adverts for blackhead-be-gone at seven in the morning? Spewosity upchuck... ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: sam knight
Date Posted: 15 September 2013 at 6:00pm
83.13mph - AMAZING....Well done europe - and therefore us. Ahem. ------------- To be happy and not get killed. |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 15 September 2013 at 9:13pm
Fantastic!!!  ------------- |