Battle Mountain 2017
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Topic: Battle Mountain 2017
Posted By: legs_larry
Subject: Battle Mountain 2017
Date Posted: 30 August 2017 at 10:48am
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Right, I'm off. Usual rubbish at http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - the Automatic Diary . Toodle-pip! ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
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Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 30 August 2017 at 12:44pm
looking forward to reading it 
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 10 September 2017 at 5:49am
I have arrived! Competitors currently known to be here:
Not sure whether Liverpool are here yet but there was a plaintive message from last-minute substitute rider Yasmin Tredell on Facebook last night. So if any of youse lot happen to be coming here from Las Vegas tomorrow, she could do with a lift. Thought not... ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Date Posted: 10 September 2017 at 9:54pm
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Amazing that you made it after all your brushes with ... deth Looking forward to all your reports - you lucky chap for being there.
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 10 September 2017 at 10:08pm
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Photos of little consequence from this morning here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4G2tdV" rel="nofollow - https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4G2tdV - more to follow. We still seem to be lacking the Japanese, the Australians and the Official Canadians but the latter are always late anyway. More to follow later after the tech inspections. Yasmin managed to get to Reno and should be able to get a lift from Danny or Jun, our chief timers.
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Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Date Posted: 11 September 2017 at 7:12pm
| Who was the Lassie photographed getting into Arion3 if Yasmin has not yet arrived? |
Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 11 September 2017 at 8:36pm
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Yasmin had arrived, twas her and also her inside on it's side; http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://automatic-diary.blogspot.co.uk/ Day 12 - keep up at the back of the class, and yes i do mean you Master Shrugged!
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 11 September 2017 at 9:42pm
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Mr Organisator Al Krause managed to contact Cal Poly's Professor Frank Someone just as he was driving past Reno and got him to divert, so Yasmin didn't have to hang around waiting for Jun Nogami and Danny Guthrie. Anyway, it's now Monday here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4TgU9y" rel="nofollow - Clicky for Monday photos - will be updated withe evening pictures when we've had an evening. Nearly all from the start coz that's where I ended up after driving the sweep car. About 156 mph, since you ask. FTD to Eta Prime/Calvin Moes (University of Toronto) at 68.32 mph - this with only a 2.5 mile run-up. Only other bike over 60 was Andrea Gallo in Taurus with 65.45, Yasmin Tredell in ARION3 next up with 58.03. Nearly 5 mph quicker than Ken Buckley  Though the wind did start to pick up after 9 am.First day jitters got the better of not a few people with Toronto have a pretty torrid time. Five starts in two bikes, 3 DNFs. Iris Slappendel managed to deck VeloX 7 at both ends of her run. The machine from Mexico's De La Salle Universidad b0rked its transmission very early in the run and new rider Shinsuke Kouzai fell with his first start attempt in Super Ketta Machine 162, restarted and then went off the road near the 1 mile marker, bloodying his nose and scarring the bike somewhat. Even Barbara Buatois and Ellen van Vugt had a few wobbles at the start. But we did get a new world record, with John Mumme cranking his unfaired handcycle to 27.6 mph with only a 600 metre run-up  Lovely and warm this morning, no woolly jumpers needed and it should be Scorchio! this evening. I'm going to have a snooze now coz I only got four hours last night because poxy slow Internets... PS: I  this bike... ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 12 September 2017 at 5:40am
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Not much to add from this evening. Only two bikes in the first heat; Ken Buckley got away OK in ARION 3 but blew the rear tyre halfway down the course when doing about 65 mph. Not too much damage to the bike and none to the rider. Bill Kong in Toronto's old warhorse Bluenose did 67.8 with non-legal wind and blew straight through catch at some ludicrous speed. Not sure how they managed to stop him coz I was still up the road at Ken's incident. We closed the road for the second heat but it started raining when I was still four miles from the start area. Not heavily compared with what we could see over the mountains but enough to cause us to halt proceedings for the day. At least we get an early night tonight. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 12 September 2017 at 10:31pm
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Rain threatened this morning but didn't materialise on the course itself so we got a full programme run off. Still a few starting issues, notably from Barbara whose Varna camera back seemed to have developed an unnatural fondness for the right side ditch. After six failed attempts we ran out of time. Phenomenal save by Larry Lem diving under Macquarie Uni's MQ1 to bounce it upright when it looked like Charles Easton-Berry was going down - apparently the Italians have it on video so I'll keep my eyes peeled for the link. And Andrea decked the Taurus while starting, though happily damage is barely noticeable. The Super Ketta Machine 162 has an equally perverted love life, but for the left side of the road, as Shinsuke Kouzai went off in much the same place as yesterday, and the Mexican String-Driven Thing has also yet to complete a full run even over the short course. FTD again went to Calvin Moes in Eta Prime, whose 75.96 mph was into an illegally-stiff headwind. The wind calmed down for the final heat on the long course and Yasmin Tredell got the second-best speed of the morning with a fully-legal 66.66 mph in the repaired ARION 3. Ken managed to keep it on the road for a confidence-building 60.69 and the Liverpool PSOs will now be spending the afternoon painting, sanding, polishing and praying to the Weather Goddess for better conditions. John Mumme improved his 600/200 arm-powered record to 28.87 mph, but he's through for the week, I think because Real Life. Photos from this morning's runs and the Show'n'Shine at the Civic Center are at here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4Y2R6s" rel="nofollow - clicky
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 13 September 2017 at 5:13am
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No runs Tuesday evening because rain, wind, thunder, lightning and four blokes on horseback making a bloody nuisance of themselves. NB: Last item may be an Alternative Fact.
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 13 September 2017 at 9:31pm
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Wednesday's photos at: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm52Xgn9" rel="nofollow - https://flic.kr/s/aHsm52Xgn9 A communication cockup meant we thought Ken in ARION 3 had scratched after a fall at the start; he aborted his restart attempt after another tumble and something rattling around in the bowels of the bike. Timing issues meant no time for current outright fastest rider Calvin Moes and only a reading from VeloX 7's onboard GPS for the flying Aniek Rooderkerken of 70.60 mph to displace Yasmin at the top of the women's leader board. One of the Liverpool PSOs failed to plug ARION 3's derailleur power lead back in leaving Yasmin unable to get out of first gear and spun out after 200 m - she coasted the rest of the way and still clocked 42 mph though her freewheeling distance was some way short of that achieved by my man Jan-Marcel van Dijken last year. Fastest official run of the day was Andrea in Taurus, with a wind-legal 75.15, with Alan Petit clocking 67.63 in Eta Prime. More Stuffs to follow after tonight's runs if the weather doesn't shaft us again. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 13 September 2017 at 11:20pm
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A flat-track Goldwing just ain't right I tell ya! ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
Posted By: Adrian Setter
Date Posted: 14 September 2017 at 12:16am
Um, I always thought IHPVA rules on energy storage effectively prohibit electronic shifters. But then I often think things that turn out not to be the case. ------------- Challenge Hurricane - MicWic Delta (Front half) - Burrows Ratracer |
legs_larry wrote:Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 14 September 2017 at 8:14am
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Wednesday night continued Toronto's piss-poor fortune with Bill Kong decking Bluenose shortly after a near-69 mph run, Calvin Moes unshipping Eta Prime's chain again and Alan Petit falling into a dry stream bed only a few yards from the start. Liverpool's main sk8r d00d is on the sick with heat stroke, so Ken nobly sacrificed his run to launch Yasmin instead; she was close to 70 mph in spite of "something rubbing". Fastest run of the evening was Andrea Gallo in Taurus at just under 76, and currently we have more thunder, lightning, rain and a wind Mighty and Rushing enough to have ripped the Customs paperwork off one of HPT Delft/Amsterdam's shipping crates. And we had a surprise visit from Axl Rose[1]: 
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 14 September 2017 at 9:51pm
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This morning we did the five mile runs before the short course ones, because wind. The wind, being fickle and capricious, failed to do as it was told. Barbara finally managed to get the Varna camera bike down the full course with a respectable 65.81 mph while Shinsuke Kouzai completed his first run of any kind with 67.17 on the short course in Super Ketta Machine 162. He then locked the brakes coming into catch and slid into the brush yet again. Isaac Chung in Bluenose managed to crash while slowing down too, taking his eye off the ball to change gear! "No" said long-suffering team captain Calvin Moes, "you can leave it in top after timing..." Calvin was fastest again today, 73.22 with non-legal wind; Aniek was also over 70 but with similar wind issues and Ellen and Iris both did legal 68s. "Was it rubbing or burning this time ha ha" I asked one of the Liverpool PSO's after Yasmin's ~65 run. "Both" quoth he. Ken decided not to run. The second Mexican bike made its debut. Not sure if they were using both arm and leg power but we had to pull it off the course. The ASBO does 10 mph when in gear at idle. I was having to brake to avoid getting too close, and we needed to re-open the road. I do not see either of the Mexican bikes even completing a qualifying run. Weather forecast for tonight: windy Weather forecast for tomorrow morning: bloody freezing Bah! Edit: https://www.facebook.com/MQSpeedTeam/videos/1619997181394283/" rel="nofollow - Check out Larry Lem's fantastic save at the start of this vid - hopefully it's available to those without a Facething account. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 15 September 2017 at 3:03am
 And this, together with some of its large, damp pals, is why there were no runs on Thursday night either. Bah! ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 15 September 2017 at 9:08pm
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Pretty calm but bloody freezing this morning. Like 6 Celsius. Send thick woolly socks. Calvin Moes once again quickest with a wind-legal 79.28 mph, no doubt inspired by the presence of Todd and Jenny Reichert in catch. Shinsuke Kouzai seems to have got the hang of the Super Ketta Machine 162 with a bangin' 76.82 on his first run down the full course. Early runs were all a bit too windy as well as cold and neither Ken nor Yasmin got a legal run in. Isaac Chung continued his investigation of the local flora, once again putting the much-crashed Bluenose into the brush after going through timing. Sadly Barbara Buatois still hasn't regained her starting mojo and was unable to make a run in either bike. More Bad Gallic Swears ensued. Forecast for the remainder of the event is no rain, low winds, moderate evening temperatures and even colder tomorrow morning, with riders filling just about every available starting slot for the final three sessions. No further short course runs unless we can find space to squeeze in Natasha Morrison's unfaired bike in the 600/200 class. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 16 September 2017 at 5:42am
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Tonight was not as windy as we'd feared but all runs were into an illegally high headwind. Which didn't seem to hinder Calvin Moes in Eta Prime, who got 79.3. The 80 mph hat beckons if a half-decent bit of weather can be had. Shinzuke Kouzai in Super Ketta Machine 162 now also appears to be over his earlier problems, with 74.94 mph. No-one else was over 70, so that's all a bit meh by current standards. Of the BRITONS Ken decided not to run, partly because of the wind - he was down for heat one when it was strongest - and partly because he is a Gentleman and didn't want to break the bike before Yasmin had a go. She did 68.27 in the penultimate run of the night. At the moment, though, it looks like Aniek Rooderkerken in VeloX 7 is most likely to break the women's record of 75.69 mph. While the bikes may not have broken any records tonight, the nine year old mark for Highest Speed Set By The Sweep Car was broken when Officer Steve Day of the Nevada Highway Patrol brought his Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat out to play. Supercharged 6.2 litre V8, 707 bhp. We hit 187 mph (no, he didn't let me drive it...)------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |
Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Date Posted: 16 September 2017 at 9:57am
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The usual brilliant reports from legs_larry. On the timing link below I did notice one UK result by Natasha who raced with the BHPC at Redbridge in 2017: "Natasha on the Velociraptor, setting a new women’s record for the WRRA at 34.62 mph". https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/category/hpv/" rel="nofollow - https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/category/hpv/ Best of luck to Natasha, Yasmin, and Ken on the last day.
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 16 September 2017 at 9:08pm
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Very cold and initially quite breezy this morning, so much so that the riders scheduled for the 07:30 heat decided not to run. It never got properly warm but the wind died for the later runs. No wrecks and nobody drownded; fastest run was Shinsuke Kouzai with an non-legal 76.22. Best wind-legal run was Andrea with 73.72, just ahead of Ken's 73.37. Both the Dutch women were over 70 too; Yasmin's 67.96 was thus a little disappointing, though both BRITONS will be running this evening when it's forecast to be warm and not windy. Photo op and visit from the Highway Patrol afterwards, which saw Calvin, Aniek and serial offender Barbara cuffed and led away in disgrace. The latter was launched, in French, by Todd Reichert last night and this morning, which seems to have done wonders for her confidence. Final runs tonight, plus the awards bash. Things this Unit would like to see:
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Posted By: atlas_shrugged
Date Posted: 17 September 2017 at 8:59am
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So good speeds from both UK riders but not wind legal - sob 71.48 mph Yasmin77.40 mph Ken
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Posted By: legs_larry
Date Posted: 18 September 2017 at 2:31am
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Yep, wind refused to cooperate on the last night and only Aniek in VeloX 7 got a legal run in: 75.51 mph and just a whisker under Barbara's record. If she hadn't dropped it on her first start attempt, who knows? Ken got moved to the third heat after dropping three times in the second; fortunately there was a slot free. Calvin missed out on the chance of an 80 mph run after Alan binned Eta Prime bigly halfway down the course, losing his specs in the process. I drove down 305 on the way out of town this morning and they were back out there looking for them... Bit of a letdown all told, considering the possibilities, but if the weather hadn't been so sh*t things might have turned out better. ------------- ==================== a bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds |