Chain guard
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Topic: Chain guard
Posted By: Grifff
Subject: Chain guard
Date Posted: 26 July 2021 at 11:55pm
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Hi If I have a front screen fitted do I need a chain guard as I covers the front end? I do have one but it needs modifying to fit the new chainring. |
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Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 6:02am
| As long as the dangerous whirling spikey bits can't hit anybody else then all is well with a front screen. A screen will probably stop your machine being classed as unfaired though. |
Posted By: Grifff
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 8:50am
| Hi, Thanks for the reply. The screen is a windwrap on an ice trike. Does that change the class? I could see only full faired or other in multiracial. |
Posted By: RoyMacdonald
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 10:59am
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Yes, it will be faired multi track with a front fairing, but will not need a chain guard. < id="BFI_" style="width: 1px; height: 1px; display: none;"> All the best. Roy
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Posted By: Grifff
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 11:14am
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Ok thanks, I best take the screen off if it puts me in velomobile class. I must of read the regs wrongly. Thanks |
Posted By: RoyMacdonald
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 11:26am
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Then it will be Multi track and will need a chain guard. All bikes go into the open class regardless. I never bothered about my class as I just rode my trike how I felt comfortable. Of course I always finished last in my class but I'm not a contender for any class nowadays whatever I ride.< id="BFI_" style="width: 1px; height: 1px; display: none;">
All the best. Roy |
Posted By: Kim
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 11:41am
A part-faired trike should be eligible for the Part-Faired class as well as Open, Multitrack and Faired Multitrack. There's nothing bicycle-specific about Part-Faired, it's just that you get the extra multitrack classes on account of the additional wheels. Partial fairings are specifically allowed in Multitrack. Indeed, last years winner of Multitrack had a rear fairing. At least, that's how I've implemented the sign-on system.
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Grifff wrote:Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 11:56am
| I'm 99% sure only a rear fairing on a trike puts it part faired, front fairing is straight to multi-faired and skips part faired class completely, that is what I was told many years ago when I was messing with trike fairings. |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 12:49pm
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Just to clarify you CAN run a front OR rear fairing and be classed as part faired (and multitrack). If you run both then you're chasing Slash and the velomobiles... Good luck with that. :) This came up several years ago as part of the lengthy discussions on Sport and Street Class. It's almost clear in our rules... http://www.bhpc.org.uk/how-to-race-with-bhpc.aspx" rel="nofollow - How to race with BHPC ------------- |
Posted By: Kim
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 12:55pm
| IMHO it would be less confusing if the Multirack classes followed the same naming convention as the others. They should really be called 'Multitrack' and 'Multitrack Part-Faired' (with the option for a 'Multitrack Unfaired' class if necessary). |
Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 1:59pm
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Posted By: Grifff
Date Posted: 27 July 2021 at 10:03pm
| Thanks all, not that I expect to be anywhere but the back but I didn't want to end up in the fastest class if I didn't have too! |