Glastonbury 2002 Was a Tad Quieter Than Usual... Summer 2002 Issue 69 BHPC Newsletter - Issue 69 http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
Front Cover: Zwei Tausend und Eins catalogue Back Cover: A Tina Prime cut Contents Event Calendar 2002 3 Editorial Thingery Yo Ed an’ his Homies 7 Record News Collected From Around the World 9 Correspondence Richard Carter 12 Builders Corner Rob English 13 Racing News Me, with help from Bob Smith, Dave Warnock & Kevin Jenkins 19 On The Scrapheap Clive Sleath 39 Late News P.P.O.G. Penguin, well, alright, me 41 A Shameless Space Filler HP Velotechnik and Optima 43 Suppliers and Wants 44 Back Page Mrs. Larrington 48
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A Day At The Races BHPC Race Events
Sunday July 14th Darley Moor
Saturday August 3rd Lancaster
Saturday August 31st Curborough As last year, times and details to follow
Sunday September 15th Kimbolton kart circuit, Cambridgeshire
Sunday October 13th Eastway – AGM and Other Things
All events will be starting on the track at 11:00 so please get there with enough time to get going then. Special offer - two events will be of the cruel and heartless format of points based on overall position in both morning and afternoon races. These will be....Eastway#1 and Darley Moor. Time to get training!
Number boards are IMPORTANT, so fit them. You will need two of about A5 size, one facing forward not obscured by legs etc. you can tilt this back to a max of 45° if you wish, and one on the left hand side.
The actual race formats aren’t sorted as of yet apart from Castle Combe and Manchester but are likely to be of the variety: 30-40min scratch races followed by a “fun” race in the afternoon.
Charges – a variation on previous years applies now. Payment for all season £50 - pay in advance by post to our treasurer or at the events. Cheques payable to “BHPC”. Note this is not a pro-rata payment so it does not go down if you don’t go to Manchester.
Payment on the day - BHPC members £7 per race, Non-members £10 per race. Other Race Events
June 25th, July 2nd , 9th Herne Hill velodrome, London SE23
London HPV Series Part the Second. Evening races from approx. 19:00 to 21:00. Usual format is: 1. 20 minutes + 1 lap scratch race 2. Devil-Take-The-Hindmost 3. 5 lap flat-out-like-hell maximum-attack scratch race
See www.bikefix.co.uk/london_hpv_series.html, or phone 0207 405 1218
3 July 13th - 14th Eutin, Germany
European Waterbike Championships. Andreas Schlief writes:
Dear Waterbikers!
We all hoped that the European Championships 2002 might be in combination with the famous 24 hours of Istres, but after not having heard anything from the organizers for months we lately were informed that nothing will happen there!
So once again the HPV Deutschland and the well-known chaos organization team decided to go to Eutin again and offer you there some fine championships on 13./14. July!!!
Also this year there is the big “Eutiner Wasserspektakel” - see http://www.wasserspektakel.de and http:/ /www.eutin.de
Those of you who came there last year will find us at the same place. It is in the middle of Eutin - you can’t miss it! Camping is between trees and roses again, close to the water. So don’t forget to bring your tents and dishes!!!
It will cost only EUR 20,- including food for HPV Deutschland e.V. members! If you are not yet a member, you have to join, but it’s cheap (students about EUR 20, Adults 30).
The event is powered again by: The Daimler Chrysler Azubi Power Time Machine Team, HPV Deutschland e.V., the Innenminister des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, the city of Eutin, and kreativ + konkret Veranstaltungsagentur.
There will be prize money again and the Minister will come and do the start and prizegiving of the long distance race. There will be some kind of party on Saturday in the city. I don’t know if it will be good, but we are welcome!
Don’t sleep! Start repairing your boat and come! All we need now is you! Please register soon, we need to know how many people will come. For further information see http://www.wasserspektakel.de and / or http://www.waterbiking.org
August 3rd – 4th Schötz, Switzerland
24 Hour World Cycle Race – see http://www.24hbicyclerace.com/index.htm. Last year’s HPV winner was Sergei Dashevski, with 838.86 km…
August 5th – 10th Brantford, Ontario, Canada
General information about what is planned for the IHPVA Speed Championships in Brantford, Ontario Canada this summer. Information will be posted on the website concerning costs, specific classes, etc. as it becomes finalised.
Brantford is located in southern Ontario, about an hour south of Toronto, an hour north of Buffalo (New York) and 2 hours east of Detroit. Cayuga 2000 Speedway is located about 40 km south of Brantford, nearer to Buffalo.
We are working on getting transportation from Toronto airport to Brantford for those who want to fly with their bikes. Once in Brantford all other venues, and a campground, are accessible by bicycle. There will also be transportation from Brantford to Cayuga Speedway for those who need it.
4 The event hotel will be the Holiday Inn. The event campground is situated next to a bicycle path and the river, a really beautiful place with lots of open space and vegetation. More information on how to reserve a spot will be posted soon.
Cost is unknown at this time. We want to make it as inexpensive as possible, but not go broke!
Tentative Schedule:
Monday, August 5th Arrivals, fun rides, local scooter, skateboard and BMX race events. (The HPVA is not sponsoring any of these local events).
Tuesday, August 6th Workshops and Seminars; Practical Urban Transport tournament Afternoon: Parade, Welcome Commemoration Run (local event) Evening - IHPVA Board Meeting
Wednesday August 7th Cayuga 2000 Speedway; full day on 5/8 mile oval. Evening - Displays Demos - Mohawk College / Holiday Inn
Thursday August 8th HPV water speed events - Pinehurst Park Evening: HPVA general meeting - Holiday Inn
Friday August 9th Demos, fun obstacle course, vendor booths Afternoon/early Evening - Drag races
Saturday August 10th 200 Meter Sprints on newly paved one-mile road Afternoon - Criteriums on 2 km course Evening Banquets and Awards + Entertainment
We are also having “short bikes on a short-track” go-kart fun racing. Bike, rider and helmet (combined) have to be 4’10" or less to fit under the track bridge!. We don’t have a firm date on this one yet. They have tentatively planned it for Monday afternoon but some prefer it to be later in the week, like Thursday afternoon after the boats.
Further information on the web at: http://www.ihpva.org/hpva/ihpsc2002.html or the unofficial info page at http://members.rogers.com/melonjoe/brantfordhpvweek.html, e-mail: [email protected]
August 3rd – September 1st Köln, Germany
Final round of the BeND Championship, based at the Albert Richter velodrome, Köln-Müngersdorf
September 30th - October 5th Battle Mountain, Nevada, USA
Mark your calendar, folks! September 30 - October 5 2002. Six days of the fastest HPVs in the world! .deciMach Speed Prize! Three days of HPRA racing! More !!!’s to follow!
5 A Day (or More) Somewhere Else! (Mostly Stolen From Velovision)
20th - 27th July: Bike Culture Week, Oakham School, Oakham, Rutland. Booking form available from The Company of Cyclists, 7, Coda Ave, York, YO23 2SE. [email protected]. Tel: 01904 778080. Places are strictly limited, so book soon!
20th - 29th July: SpokesFest, Leicester, UK. See www.spokesfest.freeserve.co.uk or Tel 0116 2781360 Free this year, and a whole week long
1st - 5th August: CycleFest, Lancaster, UK - http://www.cyclefest.ucsm.ac.uk/
2002 is an ‘even year’, so this year it’ll all be happening again at St.Martin’s College, Lancaster, UK. Its green hilltop campus overlooks the City, the River Lune (and its bold new Millennium Cycle Bridge), Morecambe Bay and views of the South Lakeland hills.
This will be the sixth CycleFest and will again be a gathering of enthusiasts for cycling in all its many manifestations. People will be arriving from all over the world – inventors, engineers, explorers, authors and historians and, above all, riders - bringing with them a variety of machines.
These will include recumbent racers, tourers, commuters, load-luggers, folders & separables, tandems of all sorts, sociables, veterans. We will have quadracycles, tricycles both high & low, tadpoles & frogs, bicycles of all types and unicycles.
CycleFest has become a focal point for enthusiasts’ groups, so there will again be gatherings of Trice; Pedersens; Kingcycles; Moultons new and old; Bike Fridays; Anthrotechs; Bromptons; Birdys, and many others.
The theme this year will be ‘Cycle Frame Design’. Speakers will include Mike Burrows, Peter Eland, Hans Scholz and others. Their talks will culminate in an Open Forum on the Saturday evening. See the provisional Programme for more details.
Amongst other things we’ll have a variety of social rides to suit everyone, sprints, fun races and other cycle-related events and – new for this year – an only slightly serious Concours d’Elegance. There will of course be a Trade Show with opportunities to try out machines away from motorised traffic.
Naturally, there will be all manner of interesting people, as well as the guest speakers of course. Possibly kite-flying and d.i.y. music sessions? Certainly real ale [I’m going! - Ed.] and good food!
As previously, the event will be well but not over-organised and convenient, with plenty of accommoda- tion available, including campus-camping & B&B with the great views; plus guesthouses, hotels and other campsites nearby.
Traders and Exhibitors are invited to apply to the Organisers as soon as you like.
Organisers: John Bradshaw Tel: 01524 384474 e.mail: [email protected] Pat Strachan Tel: 07815 017519 e.mail: [email protected]
6 Campus-based B&B: only from: Sarah Fisher, Conference Officer, S.M.C., Lancaster LA1 3JD Tel: 01524 384460 e.mail: [email protected] www: http://www.ucsm.ac.uk/corporate/conference/
24th - 26th August: CTC Mildenhall Rally, UK. http://www.mildenhallrally.org.uk Nice weekend event not far from Cambridge, UK.
29th August - 2nd September: Cycle Messenger World Champs, Copenhagen.
29th August - 1st September: Eurobike, Friedrichshafen, Germany. www.messe-fn.de/messen/eurobike/ Some days trade-only
12th - 15th September: IFMA, Köln, Germany. Fax +49 221 821 2826 www.koelnmesse.de Some days trade only
20th - 23rd September: EICMA Bici, Milan, Italy. www.eicma.it Some days trade only
25th - 29th September: Cycle 2002, Business Design Centre, London. www.cycleshow.co.uk New show, two days trade, two days public
25th December 2002: Christmas. dere santa plees can I hav a raz-faz yores dave… The Editor Mourns The Loss Of Innocence
Embarrassment And The (Un)Usual Excuses • Choose between 60 teams in 3 divisions • Over 1000 cyclists characterised by 10 For once I am not mumbling vague excuses as ratings to why the Newsletter is late. Of course, it • Each cyclist has a unique personality might still be late - this merely depends on [Heroically, I refrain from comment at this whether I can get the thing finished before point - Ed.] vanishing to Lelystad, but that’s only a long • Compete in the Tour de France weekend. Hurrah for Bob Smith, who has • Create individual tactical profiles before provided a ****load of professional photos of each race Castle Combe, which will help enormously to • Manage your team in race by deciding keep the covers apart! when to attack, take relays,… • Cyclists behave in a real-life manner Something For The Winter Months? • Races are represented in 3D with multiple camera angles asks Roy MacDonald of that which can be found lurking at amazon.co.uk at the end of a On the other hand, “customers who bought this URL too long and complicated to be worthy of item also bought: repetition. To save you all that stress and tension, I can exclusively reveal that Roy is • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone referring to “Cycling Manager”, which is, of • Commandos 2: Men of Courage course, a computer game! Bells, whistles and • Sony PlayStation 2 Console” other features include:
7 And it doesn’t say whether: ‘I can manage the teaspoon’ said Mother A look of distress on her face. 1. You can do HPV racing with it (answer: ‘It’s this ‘ere recumbent posture... unlikely), or I haven’t got one in the place.’ 2. If so, how to stop Mr. Chattington from winning all the races Said Pa, ‘What about Mrs Lupton?.. Next door ‘ere - you’d better ask her; However, the average review nets it no fewer A woman who’s buried three husbands than four stars, and Amazon will flog you a copy Is sure to have one of them there.’ for 24.99 of your English Pounds. Bargain! So they went round and asked Mrs Lupton, Some Of Me Poetry ‘Aye, I know what you mean,’ she replied, ‘I ‘ad one on order for ‘Orace, The indefatigable Dave Williams writes: But poor dear got impatient and died.’
“On my local Radio Station this evening was a She said, ‘You’d best try the Co-Op shop, wonderful monologue from the late Stanley They’ll have one in stock I dare say; Holloway (written by Marriot Edgar) called “The ‘ Fact I think I saw one in the winder Recumbent Posture”, Although not strictly an Last time I was passing that way.’ HPV reference, some of the problems are similar - it may amuse some readers. Enjoy:” So round they went to the Co-Op shop, And at the counter for household supplies; THE RECUMBENT POSTURE Pa asked for a recumbent posture And the shopman said ‘Yes sir... what size?’ The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what’s called, confined to his bed, Said Ma, ‘It’s for our little Albert, With a tight kind of pain in his stummick I don’t know what size he would use, And a light feeling up in his head. I know he takes thirteen in collars, And sixes, four fittings, in shoes.’ His parents were all in a fluster When they saw little lad were so sick, ‘If it’s little lads’ size as you’re wanting,’ They said, ‘Put out your tongue!’, When they’d Said the shopman, ‘I’m sorry to say, seen it We nobbut had one in the building, They said, ‘Put it back again - quick!’ And that one were sold yesterday.’
Ma made him a basin of gruel, He sent them across to a tin-smith, But that were a move for the worse; Who said, ‘I know what you’ve in mind; Though the little lad tried hard to eat it, If you’ll draw me a pattern, I’ll make one.’ At the finish he did the reverse. But Pa’d left his pencil behind.
The pain showed no signs of abating, They tried every shop they could think of, So at last they got Doctor to call. They walked for two hours by the clock, He said it were in the ab-domain And though most places reckoned to keep And not in the stummick at all. them, They’d none of them got one in stock. He sent up a bottle of physick, With instructions on t’ label to say, The last place they tried was the chemist, ‘To be taken in a recumbent posture, He looked at them both with a frown. One teaspoon, three times a day.’ And told them a recumbent posture Were Latin, and meant lying down. As Ma stood there reading the label Pa started to fidget about. It means ‘Lying down’ - put in Latin He said ‘Get a teaspoon and dose him, Said Father, ‘That’s just what I thowt.’ Before he gets better without.’ Then he picked up a side-glance from Mother, And pretended he hadn’t said nowt.
8 ‘They’re not dosing my lad with Latin.’ Blessed Are The Cheesemakers Said Mother, her face looking grim, ‘Just plain Castor Oil’s all he’s getting “Have you ever seen a portrayal of cyclists as And I’m leaving the posture to him.’ cheesy as this before? If so, please send me a copy for the “Cheesy Cycling Pictures Hall Of The Editor replies: Blimey! My sister and I can Fame”. We got it from a French camp site last sometimes get my father to recite the odd summer - the mountain with the antennae on the Stanley Holloway monologue, but this one is not top above the bloke’s head is the Puy de Dome...” part of his repertoire. I shall forward him a copy - I asked on page 8 of Issue 64. No-one did, but post-haste. By the way, he is still on the look- courtesy of Tim Costen, I acquired a copy of Cana- out for a Stick With A Horse’s-Head Handle, da’s “Explore” magazine from April 2002, contain- and will happily swap the Stick he currently ing this portrayal of Sam Whittingham and George possesses, with a fine brass Duck’s Head Georgiev: Handle, for a suitable Stick of the above- mentioned type. Alternatively, should anyone know of a vendor of such Sticks…
Some More Of Me Poetry
Fearing disembowellment at the hands of young Ms. Sidwell as a result of the cover of Issue 67, I have had no option but to include this:
There was an old man called Dave Larrington Who thinks he’s a bit of a Chattington I think you should know That he is so slow And he always says I got his timing wrong
Otherwise my worthless life will be forfeit, and I will away to join my Ancestors. Assuming I survive the Hayes race though, I will instead away to assist in upholding British Honour in Lelystad. And which particular muppet scheduled the European Championship finale on the same day as the World Cup Final, eh? I mean, just coz your lot didn’t qualify, Mr. Dutch Organisator [continued http:// www.football365.com/ - Ed.] No disrespect intended to either of those gentle- men, but you can practically smell the camembert "
Hurtling News
While it might appear to be a little early in the Dempsey - MacCready Prize as well as a new year to be Attempting Records, this has clearly world record! It proved to be a very educational not fazed some members of the world-wide experience proving the workability of the HPV Siblinghood. First up is Freddy Markham, “landing gear” as well as some refinements in who has been tilting at the Hour record in the the Virtual Reality system and an impromptu ex-Matt Weaver Virtual Edge: vertical stabiliser to improve handling in the wind. Fast Freddy was able to put in many laps “March 21st - March 24th Easy Racers Inc. was and hit speeds of 65 mph. Unfortunately he lucky enough to obtain the use of the Ford was hit by a gust of wind during a high speed Proving Grounds in Yucca, AZ. to try for the run down the straightaway and laid the bike over at about 63 mph, ripping off the fin and
9 leaving a 350 foot white skidmark (new world Fred certainly covered the most miles ever record?) down the track. We have a video ridden on a video system bicycle. He had no summary here: http://www.easyracers.com/ windows - only a TV screen to guide by. It took videos/VR_Ford.wmv a lot of practice and quite a few high-speed crashes before Fast Freddy mastered this state-of-the-art machine. Let’s give a BIG HAND for Fast Freddy, who at 45-year-old STILL has the right stuff. Although he did not get a record, his accom- plishment is still awesome!
Closer to home, Axel Fehlau has made an attempt on his own six- hour record. Silly boy. Anyway, this one didn’t go according to plan either:
“On May 12th, 2002 Team WhiteHawk started an attempt to set a new 6 hour World Record. Though Virtual Edge - with and without fin the weather forecast predicted rain, it stayed dry for the first 1 1/4 hours. Then Axel Fehlau, the pilot, had to fight through the rain. Now he tells what happened next:
‘The weather conditions were extreme. At 100% humidity and no wind there was no prospect of improvement. Thankfully the start was in the dry, though the canopy was already moist despite our proven and well used “tinctures”. The first hour was blind flying at ca. 65km/h and a reasonable heart rate. The limited vision (a patch of 5x3cm, the rest was fogged up) required the highest concentration to stay on the track.
“On May 4, 2002, the Easy Racer Team made Unfortunately the Rain God [father of the an attempt on the One Hour Record for Human P*nct*r* Fairy - Ed.] caught me after about 70 Powered Vehicles at the California Speedway minutes and poured some more water on the near Los Angeles. The track is a 2-mile oval, track. I had to pay tribute to the higher not steeply banked, and seemed perfect for this “Rainresistance” because I couldn’t crank the sort of attempt. wattage needed to keep the speed up. So the speed dropped down. Yet my “lead” of about 6- Fast Freddy pedalled off at about 6:30 A.M. and 7 minutes (= 6-7 km) was still enough to reach exactly one hour later had covered about 45.7 the goal of 360 km. miles. This is a personal best for Fred, but did not break the record of 50 mph set by Sam I still thought so after 155 km and 500 m from Whittingham of British Columbia, Canada in the start line. Then the rear tire blew and the 1998 on a Varna [er, whither Lars Teutenberg’s end was near. Riding a full-faired speedbike in 50.42 miles / 81.158 km from 1999? - Ed.].
10 the wet on the rear rim and with the known pounds), stands 90 cm (35.5") tall and is 46 cm limited steering lock is simply horrifying. (18") wide.
The inevitable happened: No visibility, hardly After the prototype had been tested in the Opel any steering, stopping with a puncture = falling wind tunnel, three examples were built. With over. Thankfully I wasn’t injured. The canopy of these WhiteHawks, three records were set. The the bike stayed intact but repairing the shell will 6-hour record stands at 356.929 km by Axel keep us busy until the next time. Fehlau from Germany; Lars Teutenberg, also German, holds the men’s world hour record (81.158 km) and now Ellen van der Horst set the women’s hour record, monitored by IHPVA official Axel Fehlau.
Van der Horst is a member of the Challenge- Elan Racing Team and was sponsored by recumbent manufacturer Challenge (Apeldoorn) and recumbent shop Elan (Nijmegen).
This was followed shortly by Ellen’s own description, which I have shamelessly stolen from the RSC Speedbike Bergisch-Gladbach web site at http://www.speedbikebgl.de/ index.html:
A hole, yesterday “Saturday morning at nine o’clock we loaded Finally, a record attempt which did succeed. the WhiteHawk into our bus at the Elan Shop in Seamus King was probably the first to spot this Nijmegen and started our trip to the Opel on Challenge’s web site: Vehicle Proving Ground in Dudenhofen. That’s a trip of about 4 hours but because this track is Frankfurt, 20 April 2002 very well suited for record runs we gladly undertook the journey. In contrast with the 250 Today, Ellen van der Horst (31) from Nijmegen m velodrome that Corinne van Noordenne used (the Netherlands) set the women’s world one last year to set her record, this is a 4 km long hour recumbent cycling record. At the Opel track with comfortable corners so you’re not testing track at Frankfurt she rode 68.325 km in going mad turning your laps. You don’t have to 1 hour. The previous record was held by worry so much about staying on the ideal line, Corinne van Noordenne at 61,53 km/h, which as on a 250 m track with banked corners. That’s was set on a 250 m velodrome. She also is a why it was clear from the start, that, because of member of the Challenge-Elan Racing team. the more suitable venue, a better result than Corinne’s 61.53 km was likely to be achieved. Van der Horst rode a fully faired recumbent cycle, specifically built for speed, known as While we were standing at the gates of the “WhiteHawk”. The bike is a good example of facility at about 1 o’clock, some Swiss riders aerodynamics, using the experience of several arrive. (Jürg Birkenstock and Regula Bucher, nationalities for achieving best results. Peter Ed.) They came here to practice. Then two Groeneveld built the carbon bicycle; the fairing Handbikers who were to do some testing after was developed by IKV (Institut für our attempt also showed up. Later Guido Kunststoffverarbeitung) in Aachen, in co- Mertens and Axel Fehlau, who was to be the operation with the Vector Racing Team/RSC IHPVA Observer for the attempt, came on the Speedbike, headed by Guido Mertens of scene. At around 2 p.m. I started my warm-up Germany. The materials of the canopy were routine on a Tacx, a kind of home trainer. Of provided by German company ICI [? - Ed.] and course the weather is crucial on a day like this. the tyres are the not yet generally available Strong wind or rain is fatal. And in the meantime Schwalbe Stelvios [?? - Stelvio-riding Ed.]. The some showers came down, so fingers crossed WhiteHawk streamliner weighs in at 23 Kg (51 that the humidity will drop.
11 quickly but when I tried to get out, a cramp shot At three the gates opened and it became into my legs. So first I rested five minutes in the exciting. Arjen van Noordenne prepared the bike. It was still drizzling, so in order not to cool bike and I carriws on warming up. At half past down, someone put a blanket over my legs. three the time had come: I’m about to start! In Then, five minutes later and still suffering from the first minutes I floored the throttle to gain the cramps, I got out of the bike. In the mean- speed as quickly as possible. Then I tried to time I heard that I covered more than 65 km. I keep the cadence over 90, equivalent to a was sent to the Tacx to cool down, for at least speed of over 68km/h. ten minutes.
Two laps to go and it started to rain. During the After cooling down, I heard that I rode even last lap I could hardly see anything. We agreed more than 68 km in one hour. Wow! The that someone would wave a yellow flag, when I training, the exhausting trip, the preparations got into the last lap. But with two laps to go, with the whole Challenge-Elan Team were not someone with a yellow rain jacket stood beside in vain!” the track. I’m in doubt: Is this the sign, do I have to literally zoom through the last lap now? But at the last moment it becames clear; this wasn’t the sign.
The last lap really was a problem. Due to the rain and the fogged canopy I couldn’t see where I was riding and I was rolling wildly across the course.
Stopping almost went wrong too. Some people were standing on the course and I assumes that they were going to catch me. But they were starting another streamliner. I stopped half a meter away from the other bike and luckily Ellen van der Horst & WhiteHawk someone caught me. The canopy was opened It’s Your Letters, It’s Your Letters! Numb Toes In my youth I toured extensively on U.K roads My Cresswell Rapide LWB gives me no and did a few road time trials on a nice hand problems with the front at 70 psi. I wonder built wedgie. I never had numb toes when whether BB height is really the problem. High touring but by the end of a 25 mile time trial my BB’s are mostly found on SWB’s. When the fingers and toes were numb. I solved the front wheel goes over a bump the BB of an problem of my hands by taping thick blocks of SWB will rise more than the front wheel but on foam rubber to my handlebars. When racing my a LWB it will rise less. So the shorter the wheel hands and feet were subjected to greater base the greater the vibration at the rider’s feet. vibration due to higher tyre pressures and It would be interesting to compare SWB’s with higher sustained speed. and without front suspension.
In recent years I have taken to recumbents. My Richard Carter, Lincoln Flevo Oke-Ja is rather slow with the recom- mended tyre pressures of 55/60 psi, so knowing The Editor notes: that the Vredestein Monte Carlo had been tested at 120 psi by John Lafford [BHPC news 1. That this letter is in response to an article 54) I tried my Flevo with both tyres at 90 psi. by Patrick Quillin (?) in issue 68 of On country lanes in Lincolnshire I had numb “Recumbent Cyclist News”, and toes after about 20 minutes. I reverted to the 2. I think there could be something in this. recommended 55/60 psi and this cured the One of the worst cases of numb toes I problem. 12 ever had was in the 25 mile time trial chip-seal surface, was another swine in during the 1996 European Championships, this respect. And those Danish back which coincided with a rather odd surface roads, on which one could roll pastry, on the outward leg of the course. The practically none… Darlington TT, with its long stretches of What do the rest of the readership find? Builders’ Corner The Hachi By Rob English In 1999 I started racing the Kingcycle Wasp. drew in the rest of the machine. I wanted a This bike, designed by Miles Kingsbury and slightly more upright position than on the Baron raced by him and Pat Kinch, features dual 650C I have been racing the last two years, so set the wheels, front wheel drive, the traditional seat angle at thirty degrees. Then when I Kingcycle red webbing seat and a steel frame started working out the frame shape, it seemed and fork. The bike is very fast - I averaged obvious to triangulate the frame by taking it over 28.5mph in my first outing on it, unfaired. After the shoulder - this enables me to get closer to that I generally raced it with a fabric bag the front wheel and (hopefully) build a lighter stretched over the tailbox and a nose cone - in bike. this configuration I won the 60km road race at the World HPV Championships in Ghent in After much playing around, and getting accurate 2000. measurements of my limbs taken, I eventually managed to fit everything into a format I was However, fast as the Wasp is, I never found it happy with. The seat ended up four and a very comfortable, and it is a bit heavy compared quarter inches off the deck - theoretically giving to some modern race bikes. So about 18 sufficient cornering clearance for a 45-degree months ago I started thinking about designing a lean angle. new bike as an evolution of the Wasp design. Whilst in Japan I finally had time to start My construction method was already decided: drawing, and starting from the twin 650C John Kingsbury had started using a ‘laser cut wheels (the big wheels really seem to roll well), and welded’ aluminium monocoque technique and front wheel drive (for a shorter chain route on the K2 chassis, which seemed very suitable and it feels good for powering out of corners), I for the flowing lines I wanted to achieve. He had offered to build me a Wasp replacement using this method if I drew it all up, and so I had to
13 work out the patterns I would need to cut from widths, I was able to get the indexing to work flat sheet to enable the three-dimensional frame using a Campag rear mech and a Sachs to be assembled. This took some time, gripshift. particularly drawing and aligning the many tabs which would hold the frame together for And finally it was time to put it all together! I welding, but eventually I ended up with the five hadn’t decided on the final handlebar configura- pieces required - two sides, the inside (and tion yet. I thought I would probably have bars seat), outside top and outside bottom. over my knees with my arms straight, but once I was able to sit on the bike, that seemed too The seat is integral to the frame, which should wide. So I made a one-piece aluminium Ahead save weight. And there is no adjustment as the stem/bar that had my hands up behind the bike will be to fit me alone! To check I had the intermediate drive, and enabled my elbows to patterns correct, with all the tabs in the right come in front of my chest for better aerodynam- places, and to save any expensive mistakes ics. Forward vision isn’t great, but for a racing later, I built a third scale cardboard model of the bike this is something you can get used to - look main frame. at Sean Costin’s Monkeyhand, somehow he manages to pilot it safely! What about the rear wheel? Well, for several reasons (ease of transport, future proof for The seat foam will be cut to match the ventila- different rear wheel sizes and possible suspen- tion holes in the seat for the final assembly. I will sion addition, ease of frame assembly and also make some carbon disc covers for the rear construction), I decided to utilise a bolt on rear wheel, and a carbon chain guard (required for triangle, which would be tubular steel. As for the European racing). First ride was pretty good - it fork, originally I was planning on using a fits my leg length perfectly, and there is enough conventional 650C carbon road fork, but room under the frame to sit up and look forward realised I would need a narrower spacing than for a better view when required. The intermedi- the usual 100mm. I had designed a custom disc ate drive spindle proved to not be strong brake FWD hub, but handily John Kingsbury enough, so I am in the process of making a new had just made a batch of drum braked FWD part, which will support both ends. In the hubs with a narrow 67mm spacing, so I was meantime, the frame has been stripped again, able to use one of those. To go with this I and the rather tedious process of cleaning up designed an asymmetrical steel fork with aero the welds before anodising has begun. blades. The aim was to build a light bike, so most of the After a little debate with Miles, we had the bolts are aluminium, and component-wise, patterns cut from 18swg (1.2mm) aluminium aside from the aluminium intermediate drive, sheet, and I started the wrestling match of there is a Dura-Ace crankset (with a single 39 assembling the frame; this proved somewhat tooth chainring) and bottom bracket, Chorus more difficult than anticipated, and certainly rear (or front in this case...) derailleur, Sachs harder than the cardboard version! I had to Wavey shifter, SRAM 7.0 brake levers and modify some of the tabs, but it eventually all Ultegra rear dual pivot calliper. The front Zipp went together as planned. Then it was fingers carbon rim is laced with 24 holes to the custom crossed as it went off to the welders... front hub, the rear hub is a Hope titanium, again 24 spokes to a Mavic CXP10 rim. The bike as A couple of weeks later it came back, looking pictured weighs a feathery 19.5lbs - once I’ve more like a bike, and a lot less spiky now the added the rear disc covers it should still be tabs had been cut off. Meanwhile, George under 20lbs; not quite a Razz-Fazz but not bad Reynolds of Reynolds Weld Lab over in New for an aluminium bike! England did a fine job of crafting the fork and rear end for the bike, and I spent some time on One problem I found on the first ride was the the lathe sorting out the intermediate drive rear brake cable rattling in a very annoying parts. John had made some aluminium fashion where it passes through the frame. But I sprockets and custom bodies for them, so I was managed to cure this by adding some spacers able to assemble my own seven-speed to the outer cable that pull it tight inside the cassette, 13-25 teeth, with a 30-tooth final drive frame. sprocket. With a bit of playing around of spacer
14 I thought it would be interesting to compare the position with that of the Baron, so took the following pictures:
As you can see, the head position is similar, the Hachi is slightly lower, and allows a more comfortable neck position. The more upright position should be good for power, and getting the elbows above the chest makes everything
Drive detail narrower. In theory the bigger wheels should roll better, and the 6lb weight advantage is a nice bonus! We’ll see how they match up on the Above: Optima Baron Low track once the new bike is fully finished. Below: Hachi Oh and the name? After much thought (at one point it was to be called ‘Teenage Sex’ - as in ‘fast as...’ but this was considered not suitable for family viewing!), I settled on Hachi, which is Japanese for Wasp, so a nod to the inspiration and where it was designed.
Huge thanks to John and Miles Kingsbury, without whose help this project would never have become reality!
Editorial Note: The Hachi made its race debut at Hayes on June 9th, but disgraced itself by flatting its rear tyre. The tube was replaced, and the race rejoined, but Rob was unable to make up the deficit. However, having elected to
15 run both races, he still won the unfaired class little in frontal area, the complete bike ends up on his Baron # very short, thus is more likely to retain laminar flow for a greater percentage of its length, and The (As Yet...) Unnamed Kingcycle has a smaller surface area, so less skin friction drag. Plus the rider is effectively in the same In 2001, Miles Kingsbury’s interest in fast bikes position as being tucked over on a road bike, so was re-sparked, and he came up with a new it should be good for utilising more similar design, which was built very quickly, first muscles. The Little Black Number used two appearing at a BHPC race at Castle Combe 406mm wheels, with a Rohloff hub at the back. that June. Eventually called the ‘Little Black It was a monocoque body, coming up to the Number’, for want of a better name, it was shoulders, with a wrap-around screen complet- raced with some success by Steve ‘Slash’ ing the top of the bike. Slade at the World Champs in Brighton that summer, until a high-speed crash on the Over the winter, Miles started working on the technical criterium circuit wrote it off. Miles had next iteration of the bike, intended to be a taken a different approach with this machine. record-breaking machine rather than a circuit The rider sat very upright, hunched forward, racer. And for this he needed a motor - enter instead of being in a more recumbent position. me when I came back from Japan. Firstly Miles The theory being that although it gives away a built a rig so that we could accurately assess 16 The test rig just how small a space I could be fitted into, then with these dimensions we went back and spent a few weeks tweaking the shape until we were both happy with it. In order to make the foot box, and thus the nose of the bike, as small as possible, we designed a custom bottom bracket and crankset. This takes the Q-factor down to less than 50mm, with 155mm cranks. For the sake of efficiency and making it easier to fit everything in, it was decided to go Miles Kingsbury at work on the plug to front wheel drive. Miles came up with a very simple intermediate gear change - the chain is works, but is tedious and not as accurate as it held in line just off the centre of the bike, whilst needs to be. This time the sections were laser the sprockets move laterally underneath it to cut from 12mm and 6mm MDF. When glued change gear. The final drive is then down the together this gives an accurate 3D shape, and left hand side, to one of John Kingsbury’s the gaps between the steps can just be filled narrow sprag-clutched drum-braked hubs. and sanded to get a smooth finish.
So having everything designed, it was time to Our attempt at making the mould from carbon start making the plug. The previous bike had wasn’t a great success; the gel coat did not sections cut from foam and sanded down. This work as prescribed, and we were left with a
17 Rob laying-up the carbon
Interior of the plug pretty awful finish on the mould. So, since time is getting very short now, we cleaned up the plug again and sent it off to have polyester moulds made. We also had some other problems with the freezer breaking (meaning we lost a load of pre-preg carbon fibre), and the vacuum pump packing up... But, after rectifying these things, and getting the nice new polyester moulds made, we were back in business!
It took quite some effort to extract the final mouldings from the moulds, due to the polyes- ter shrinking more than the carbon after Isn’t she little! So now we just need to make the cooking. But we got there eventually (after four bits to go inside! Nice to finally see what it looks hours for the top!). The bottom is nice and stiff, like though. I’ve had a sit inside too, actually weighing in at 6lbs. The top has slightly less fairly roomy (relatively...), we’ll see if I still say carbon, and so despite being bigger, also that when I have to pedal in there too! weighs 6lbs. The surface finish hasn’t come out Roomy!?! Must be too big - Ed. as well as we would have liked, so we will have to paint it to get the smooth finish we want - We must come up with a name soon too... More gives Miles an excuse to make it Kingcycle to come as we get there - hopefully we’ll have yellow though! the thing rolling in a couple of weeks’ time.
18 Racing News Manchester - March 24th 2002 The Prologue
We zoom around. Stuart Slade falls off. Denise Wilson falls off. gNick Green falls off. He breaks his bike. Harsh words are said.
Race 1
Andrew Willmott sensibly runs his recently- acquired Paul Davies streamliner in this race so as to not be killed racing with the really fast boys. The rear rim tape on Paul Lowing’s dual- 571-equipped Ross eats the inner tube. He falls off. Paul Whitehead, immediately behind, runs into the stricken bike, and falls off. With Magura hydraulic fluid leaking from Mr. Whitehead’s defunct brake lever, the race is stopped. Mr. Willmott is, at this point, is in the lead by several miles (with American Dave Moreno the moral victor).
Race 2 Five bob for the most plausible explanation... It’s the Ladies and Juniors. No surprise any more to see Claire King zoom into the lead, stopped, unless you’re called Anne Coulson. especially as a combination of common sense But she got going again, so that’s all right. and sheer naked fear have seen Fiona Grove decline to use her embryonic fabric fairing. Race 3 Denise Wilson falls off again. The race is not Even before the start, Jeff Clements collides with Pat Field. Jeff falls off. Harsh words are said, and neither is able to take part in the race. Chris Cox does not fall off, but does decline to take part due to being scared of two wheels. Brother Pete fails to overtake Bob Knight by a gnat’s whisker at the end.
Race 4
Even before the start, your Editor falls off. He is undeterred. Ian A recumbent recumbent - the Mk. 2 Ironing Board Chattington wins.
19 racer out – lots of Campaggery and very pretty. A second one should be forthcoming for Pete when fingers are pulled out… Kevin Jenkins has a shiny Windcheetah Club Sport. Paul Lowing’s Ross, mentioned above, has luvverly purple rims, of which Ms. Treasurer Fiona “The Purple Gang” Grove is insanely Ingenious chain take-up mechanism on Andrew Warnock’s Kettwiesel jealous. Your Editor Precludes having to change the chain length when moving the pedals... brought Cosimo the Steve Slade is a slightly surprising second. Stealth Baron out to play for the first time, and Rob English wins unfaired. Wretch. Mr. Whitehead’s similar, though non-tail-faired, example was also making its debut. And Ian New Stuff Willet had his new steed (as well as a new camper van!), which will eventually live inside a Apart from the above-mentioned Davies of Mr. Davies shell – it’s the front end of the old Ironing Willmott, the Bikefix posse is all differently- Board reworked and mated to a new rear, to enabled. American Dave and Denise have a turn it into a low racery-type thing. Did anyone brace of Festinas, while JP is on the prototype else fall off? Ratcatcher. Katherine Sidwell is debuting the Snow Leopard II, which in a previous life was Quote Of The Day Nigel Brown’s Kingcycle, while Andrew Warnock is having his first outing on his “I love this place so much, every time I come Kettwiesel trike, which I believe he only got that here I have to snog the track!” – Denise Wilson morning. Chris Cox had the new Wyre low
The elegant Wyre of Chris Cox
20 Manchester Race 1 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Andrew Willmott Davies O 62 19 30 47.7 29.6 2 Dave Moreno Festina O/U 54 19 16 42.0 26.1 3 Andrew Sidwell Dilli-Dalli O/U/S 52 19 26 40.1 24.9 4 J-P de Matos Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 48 19 14 37.4 23.3 5 Paul Lowing Ross O/U/S 49 19 43 37.3 23.2 6 Paul Whitehead Optima Baron O/U 49 19 44 37.2 23.1 7 Keith Rogers Kingcycle O/U/S 41 19 12 32.0 19.9 8 Dave Warnock Road Shark O/U/M 38 19 43 28.9 18.0 9 Nigel Bradder Street Machine GT O/U/S 32 19 28 24.7 15.3
Manchester Race 2 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Claire King Kingcycle O/L 47 19 25 36.3 22.6 2 Fiona Grove Velodynamics T5 O/L 47 19 33 36.1 22.4 3 Anne Coulson Kingcycle O/U/L/S 43 19 48 32.6 20.2 4 Anna Jenkins Kingcycle O/U/L/S 42 19 59 31.5 19.6 5 Denise Wilson Festina O/U/L 41 19 41 31.2 19.4 6 Carolyn Lowing Blue Bike O/U/L/S 37 19 42 28.2 17.5 7 Stuart Slade Kingcycle O/U/S/J 35 19 25 27.0 16.8 8 Katherine Sidwell Snow Leopard II O/U/L/S/J 35 19 41 26.7 16.6 9 Heather Bradder Oke-Ja O/U/L/S/J 29 19 52 21.9 13.6 10 Andrew Warnock Kettwiesel O/U/M/J 29 19 53 21.9 13.6
Manchester Race 3 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Bob Knight Windcheetah O/U/M 55 19 18 42.7 26.6 2 Pete Cox Lune II O/U 55 19 19 42.7 26.5 3 Clive Sleath Screech O/U/S 54 19 21 41.9 26.0 4 Adrian Setter Hurricane O/U 53 19 51 40.1 24.9 5 Ian Willett Ironing Board O/U 48 19 07 37.7 23.4 6 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR O/U/M 48 19 38 36.7 22.8 7 Jon Coulson Toxy ZR O/U 45 19 20 34.9 21.7 8 Kevin Jenkins Windcheetah O/U/M 43 19 55 32.4 20.1
Manchester Race 4 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Ian Chattington Equus Anonymous O 75 19 16 58.4 36.3 2 Steve Slade Wasp II O 70 19 11 54.7 34.0 3 Paul Davies D6 O 68 19 06 53.4 33.2 4 gNick Green A Wooden Fish On W heels O 66 19 03 52.0 32.3 5 Steve Donaldson Wasp II O 66 19 13 51.5 32.0 6 Rob English Optima Baron O/U 61 19 16 47.5 29.5 7 Dave Larrington Cosimo O/U 59 19 17 45.9 28.5 8 Tim Elsdale Prone O/U 55 19 02 43.3 26.9 9 Paul London Falcon O 53 19 29 40.8 25.4
21 o.Nm ls Race Class Name Pos. 2Sur ld igy eOUS/ 51 52. 683 3918116 402000 1480 1842 1367 1763 1531 1531 1005 1684 834 1062 1763 1398 1921 891 3 1429 1582 1633 1684 1 986 12 1081 1119 815 910 948 1100 9 1633 929 4 1582 1763 1043 1150 1024 1842 872 8 853 967 2000 8 2 26 1763 5 35 10 1212 1921 11 1181 1005 23 1081 7 4 986 13.6 6 32 5 1684 1274 27 1043 21.9 22 1062 7 16.8 20 36 1842 1921 31 6 21 4 1367 24 29 13.6 1842 52 27.0 1150 1243 1024 25 17.5 30 33 3 19 21.9 19.4 34 1336 1305 2000 25 28 18.0 1119 19 16.6 1100 28.2 15.3 1429 31.2 53 1 4 1212 1480 5 19.6 1305 28.9 1243 26.7 1398 24.7 17 19 42 29 1181 18 41 19 1921 31.5 26 2 27 43 41 28 22 9 15 19 35 20.1 19.9 1684 3 19 1582 59 29 1633 2 1398 24 3 1336 22.6 1367 19 19 19 32.0 16 32.4 7 21.7 12 2 23 10 37 2000 25 41 19 36.3 19 12 34.9 1531 32 22.4 20.2 38 55 1274 35 1 2 14 2 6 13 23.2 5 /J 25 32.6 42 O/U/L/S 20 36.1 21 9 19 1763 20 10 8 8 1429 19 37.3 11 2 9 22.8 17 2 48 O/U/M/J 2 4 23.1 19 33 /J 19 O/U/S 18 1 41 16 1 14 2 23.4 43 43 36.7 37.2 19 23.3 24.9 2 47 19 25.4 45 7 O/U/L/S 7 37.7 5 8 38 6 19 O/U/L /J 37.4 44 O/U/S 40.1 O/U/L/S 13 1 43 40.8 11 7 1 O/U/M 1 12 47 07 8 Oke-Ja 26.0 3 19 O/U/L/S 14 26.5 49 51 19 3 29 26.1 Kettwiesel 3 15 2 2 19 41.9 42.7 le 24.9 5 4 19 42.0 O/U/S 48 Kingcyc 19 2 49 19 Street 2 Machine O/U/M 10 40.1 21 GT 19 48 II Leopard Snow 16 6 Bike 1 O/U Blue 48 6 53 26.6 O/L 53 26 O/U/L/S 5 19 Shark Road 19 Festina 19 3 4 42.7 4 1 le 9 O/L 19 Kingcyc O/U/S 3 54 55 Andrew 18 Warnock 1 54 3 36 4 Bradder Kingcycle Heather 52 O/U/M 3 2 35 Windcheetah O/U 2 Nigel 19 Bradder 3 Sidwell 34 Katherine O/U Kingcycle Toxy 3 O/U/S ZR 3 Slade 33 le O/U Stuart 1 55 Kingcyc O 1 T5 s Lowing 32 Carolyn Velodynamic k 31 1 Dave Warnoc GLR O/U/S 30 Wilson Greenspeed s Denise Ros O/U O/U/S O/U 29 3 Jenkins Anna Baron Optima 28 Keith Rogers 9 her Board Ironing Ratcatc 27 Jenkins Kevin 26 ane O/U/M Hurric Anne Coulson 25 Jon on Coulson Falc 24 Grove Fiona Screech Dilli-Dalli ing 23 K Claire II Lune 22 Festina Hague Rob 21 Whitehead Paul 20 Lowing Windcheetah Paul 19 de Matos J-P 18 Willett Ian 17 Setter Adrian 16 Andrew Sidwell 15 London Paul 14 Sleath Clive 13 Dave Moreno 12 Cox Pete night 11 K Bob 10 i ldl rn / 51 24. 699318 1842 1480 1633 1842 2000 1582 1921 1531 1684 1921 3 1763 9 2000 1 26.9 6 2 3 7 43.3 29.6 8 33.2 29.5 02 28.5 47.7 53.4 47.5 45.9 19 5 30 06 16 32.0 2 17 55 34.0 51.5 19 19 19 19 4 8 54.7 13 62 1 32.3 68 61 59 11 4 19 36.3 1 52.0 3 7 6 19 58.4 66 03 1 4 O/U 4 4 70 16 5 19 2 19 4 O/U O 66 O/U O 4 75 4 1 O 4 Prone O 4 Baron Optima Cosimo O Davies O D6 Wasp II Wasp II Wheels On Fish Wooden A Tim Elsdale mous 9 Dave Anony Equus Larrington nglish E 8 Rob Willmott 7 Andrew 6 Steve Donaldson k Green 5 gNic Davies 4 Paul 3 Steve Slade 2 Chattington Ian 1 eil i e mhMPH Km/h Sec Min Vehicle Manchester - - Manchester 20 minutes + 1 lap o Laps Pos UMJOULMSJ S M L U O OULMSJ Position Points
22 Milton Keynes - April 6th 2002 Photos by Dave Warnock unless otherwise noted The Prologue
It is sunny, but windy and b****y freezing. Moreover, problem with insurance, or rather the lack of it, mean that we are obliged to race on that bit of the circuit around the bowl only, behind locked gates. No lovely downhill S-bends this year, chiz. Now we know why Terry Pratchett referred to the thing as “In-Sewer- Ants”… Geoff Bird tests his reconstituted streamliner with the top off, and falls over. A combination of the wind and the fact that the bike has suddenly developed a tendency to lock its rear wheel for no very good reason puts him off racing, while Simon Nuttall’s BikeE does Strange Things to its transmission, making them a non-starter as well. Katherine Sidwell chases Stuart Slade Race 1 his having taken a tumble off his newish Baron. An incident triggered by a cat. No, really! Ladies, Juniors and a few interlopers – Brian Anyway, Claire King punts her Kingcycle Dalton, Dennis Adcock and Vaughan Reed. straight into the lead and remains there until OK, the latter had an excuse – a bad back from about half-distance, when a rear puncture brings her down. A lengthy pit stop ensues, but by the time she’s underway once more, the race is almost over, and Denise Wilson is leading. Vaughan is gradually getting closer, but fails to catch Denise by some twenty seconds, whereupon the leader rides straight over to where the assorted motor vehicles are parked and topples gracelessly over without even bothering to unclip. Stuart Slade and Katherine Sidwell run round together, occasionally accompanied by Brian Dalton’s Trice, though they give him the slip in the end, and Stuart comes out the victor by a few seconds. Dunno what happened to Lorna Wray; she just walked in and parked it.
Race 2
Claire has another go, but at the front it’s Paul Whitehead and Baron (brake lever replaced since Manchester, but handlebars still bent) pulling away for a comfortable win from Paul
Andrew Warnock
23 Race 3
The high turnout means much tumult and shouting as to who should go in this race. The times suggest that it was pretty close at the front, though Mr. Chattington does enough to beat Steve Slade to the line with Paul Davies a lap down in third. Rob English has refitted the tailbox to his Baron (because he is Scared of Me, I think) and came in 4th overall. After the race he spoke openly of overtaking Slash. As a Paul Lowing’s Ross & Paul Whitehead’s Baron result of his Youth, he I think the former is a Sports Class machine... Do you? clearly has no imagina- tion " Pete Cox edged Lowing’s Maxi-Ross. It was nice to see the Bob Knight in the sprint this time. Mike Burrows return of Marcus Hunt and his Windcheetah, not is the sole Sports class representative in this to mention not seeing Messrs. Lowing and race, but alas! he’s a whisker slower than Whitehead falling off… Patrick Field managed in race 2. For some reason Andrew Sidwell had forsaken his Dalli for the delights of Ian Chattington’s Tchaikowski, but it didn’t seem to help #
Pete Cox tails Bob Knight
24 New Stuff Rob Harris’ home-brewed device made its debut, being a tall machine confected from the Vaughan’s Baron is worthy of a little note. rear end of a mountain bike and various other Starting with an ordinary low Baron as also chunks of metal. I didn’t get a particularly good used by Messrs. English, Whitehead and look at it because – you guessed it – I am lazy Larrington, he has had 10 cm chopped out of and incompetent. Mike Sleep rode an SWB the frame beneath the seat, while a cunning bike of uncertain provenance, equipped with confection of tubes keeps the chain away from Davies front fairing and tailbox, and Huw Traylor the fork without recourse to additional pulleys. made his race debut on a Vision of some There’s also a hinged steerer, and the almost- variety. mandatory relocation of the brake levers to a position below the steering riser, whence they Quote Of The Day are Operated by the Thumbs. I shall be doing this to Cosimo sooner or later, but other things “It goes, stops and steers!” – Rob Harris, on the are still taking precedence (though the West subject of his new bike. Wing is very very nearly finished now…).
Your Editor aboard Cosimo the Stealth Baron Photo: Kevin Jenkins
25 Milton Keynes Race 1 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Denise Wilson Festina O/U/L 15 33 55 28.4 17.6 2 Vaughan Reed Optima Baron O/U 15 34 14 28.1 17.5 3 Fiona Grove Velodynamics T5 O/L 15 35 45 26.9 16.7 4 Dennis Adcock O/U 15 35 48 26.9 16.7 5 Anne Coulson Kingcycle O/L 15 36 11 26.6 16.5 6 Carolyn Lowing Blue Bike O/U/L/S 14 35 05 25.6 15.9 7 Anna Jenkins Kingcycle O/U/L/S 13 35 16 23.7 14.7 8 Stuart Slade Kingcycle O/U/S/J 13 35 52 23.3 14.5 9 Katherine Sidwell Snow Leopard II O/U/L/S/J 13 35 59 23.2 14.4 10 Brian Dalton Trice O/U/M 13 36 52 22.6 14.1 11 Andrew Warnock Kettwiesel O/U/M/J 10 35 26 18.1 11.3 12 Claire King Kingcycle O/L 7 34 06 13.2 8.2 13 Lorna Wray Moulton APB O/U/L/S 7 36 52 12.2 7.6
Milton Keynes Race 2 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Paul Whitehead Optima Baron O/U 17 32 25 33.7 20.9 2 Paul Lowing Ross O/U/S 17 33 18 32.8 20.4 3 Patrick Field Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 17 33 49 32.3 20.1 4 Mike Sleep O 17 33 52 32.2 20.0 5 David Hembrow PDQ O/U/S 16 32 47 31.3 19.5 6 Claire King Kingcycle O/L 16 33 02 31.1 19.3 7 Ian Willett Ironing Board O/U 16 33 03 31.1 19.3 8 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR O/U/M 15 32 27 29.7 18.4 9 Jon Coulson Toxy ZR O/U 15 32 50 29.3 18.2 10 J-P de Matos Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 15 33 26 28.8 17.9 11 Marcus Hunt Windcheetah O/U/M 15 33 42 28.6 17.8 12 Phil Wray Optima Baron O/U 15 34 31 27.9 17.3 13 Rob Harris O/U/S 14 33 39 26.7 16.6 14 Kevin Jenkins Windcheetah O/U/M 14 35 01 25.7 16.0 15 Huw Traylor Vision O/U/S 13 32 58 25.3 15.7 16 Dave Warnock Road Shark O/U/M 13 33 38 24.8 15.4 17 Terry Clark Kingcycle O/U/S 10 35 23 18.1 11.3
Milton Keynes Race 3 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Ian Chattington Equus Anonymous O 23 31 19 47.2 29.3 2 Steve Slade Wasp II O 23 31 23 47.1 29.2 3 Paul Davies D6 O 22 31 28 44.9 27.9 4 Rob English Optima Baron O/U 22 32 29 43.5 27.0 5 Tim Costen Wasp II O 21 31 33 42.7 26.6 6 Dave Larrington Cosimo O/U 19 31 42 38.5 23.9 7 Pete Cox Lune II O/U 18 31 22 36.8 22.9 8 Bob Knight Windcheetah O/U/M 18 31 23 36.8 22.9 9 Chris Cox Wyre O/U 18 33 02 35.0 21.7 10 Adrian Setter Hurricane O/U 17 32 21 33.7 21.0 11 Dave Moreno Festina O/U 16 30 56 33.2 20.6 12 Mike Burrows Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 16 31 56 32.2 20.0 13 Andrew Sidwell Tchaikowski O/U 16 33 02 31.1 19.3 14 Paul London Falcon O 15 31 32 30.5 19.0 15 Dave Redknap Quadras O/U 15 33 05 29.1 18.1 26 1429 2000 1367 Points 1582 1842 1684 1480 Position UMJOOULMSJ U L M S J Pos Laps Milton Keynes - 30 minutes + 1 lap 1 + minutes 30 - Keynes Milton cycle O/U/L/S 1 7 13 35 16 23.7 14.7 37 29 5 9 796 948 cycle O/L 1 5 15 36 11 26.6 16.5 32 3 891 Vehicle Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Ian Chattington2 Steve Slade3 Paul4 Davies Rob English5 Tim Costen6 Larrington Dave 7 Pete8 Cox Equus Anonymous Bob Knight9 Chris Cox WaspII Optima Baron D6 O Cosimo WaspII Windc heetah 3 Lune II O/U O 1 Wy re 23 O/U O 3 O 3 31 O/U/M 4 2 19 3 O/U 3 22 3 3 23 47.2 6 O/U 3 32 8 5 29.3 3 31 19 22 1 18 29 21 7 23 31 3 31 43.5 31 31 47.1 18 42 9 27.0 28 29.2 23 33 31 4 38.5 18 44.9 2 36.8 42.7 1 23.9 22 27.9 33 22.9 26.6 6 3 36.8 8 5 02 2 22.9 2000 4 35.0 7 21.7 3 1 9 1763 2000 5 1921 1633 1921 1531 1842 1763 1684 1582 2000 1842 1480 1684 39 Katherine Sidwell40 Brian Dalton41 Clark Terry 42 Andrew W arnock43 King Claire 44 Lorna Wray Snow Leopard II Kettwiesel Trice Kingcycle O/U/L/S/J Kingcycle 1 MoultonAPB 9 O/U/M/J O/U/S 13 O/U/M 35 O/U/L/S 1 O/L 2 11 1 59 17 1 10 10 23.2 1 10 13 14.4 13 35 12 35 39 7 36 7 31 26 23 6 36 18.1 52 34 18.1 11.3 52 11.3 22.6 06 11 42 41 14.1 12.2 2 33 34 13.2 40 758 7.6 8.2 32 910 1633 44 43 7 35 12 6 8 1398 1921 7 3 726 713 13 872 853 739 891 687 1582 834 1531 700 1633 1842 1336 33 Kevin Jenk ins34 Caroly n Lowing35 Huw Tray lor36 W Dave arnock37 Anna Jenkins38 Slade Stuart Windc heetah Blue Bike Road Shark Vision King Kingcycle O/U/M O/U/L/S 2 O/U/M 1 14 O/U/S O/U/S/J 6 2 14 16 14 2 1 35 13 15 35 8 01 13 33 13 05 25.7 32 16.0 38 25.6 35 33 15.9 24.8 58 52 25 34 15.4 25.3 23.3 26 36 4 15.7 14.5 4 28 38 35 30 27 7 5 872 1024 853 10 1005 8 1763 1 1763 815 777 967 929 1582 834 986 1684 1531 10 Adrian Setter11 Paul W hitehead12 Moreno Dave 13 Paul Lowing14 Patrick Field15 Mike Sleep16 Mike Burrows17 Hembrow David 18 Andrew Sidwell Optima19 Baron Hurricane Ian W illett20 Paul London21 Rob Hague Festina22 Jon Coulson23 Ratcatc 9 her Ross Redk Dave nap24 J-P de Ratcatc Matos25 her 9 O/U Marc us Hunt26 PDQ Tchaikowski O/U Denise Wils27 on Vaughan Reed28 2 Phil Wray29 Ironing Board O/U O/U/S Fiona Grove Greenspeed 3GLR 30 Falcon 1 Dennis Adcock O/U/S31 O/U/S 10 Rob Harris32 Toxy ZR Quadras 17 2 3 Anne Coulson Ratcatc O/U 17 her 9 O/U/S 2 3 Windc 11 32 3 heetah O/U/M 32 Optima O/U FestinaBaron O 12 16 2 17 25 3 2 21 16 Velodynamics 17 30 T5 33.7 Optima 2 33 O 13 Baron 5 33.7 2 O/U O/U/S 20.9 31 O/U 2 33 16 56 8 49 21.0 O/U/M 16 11 7 King 56 4 10 33.2 18 33 32.3 7 O/U 15 3 2 32 16 6 2 O/U/L 3 20.6 32.2 20.1 17 2 32.8 O/L 14 02 32 10 12 O/U 14 47 20.0 15 33 9 20.4 11 1 33 15 8 10 31.1 15 16 27 1 13 15 31.3 15 03 15 11 19.3 1 2 52 9 31 29.7 19.5 33 2 1 18 33 31.1 32 33 32.2 17 18.4 3 15 O/U 13 32 12 15 26 19.3 12 1398 21 2 05 20.0 1582 50 42 15 1429 30.5 34 19 15 15 1633 O/U/S 28.8 3 15 33 29.1 14 29.3 1 19.0 28.6 1 35 17.9 1305 14 34 1429 18.1 1367 18.2 55 20 17.8 1531 2 24 1243 4 2 23 28.1 1398 4 45 22 1336 25 18 31 28.4 1480 17 16 19 17.5 13 15 26.9 17.6 27.9 1181 27 1212 1336 14 1367 16.7 26 1921 35 17.3 21 1100 20 3 1274 29 1842 28 33 5 1150 2000 1 48 1305 22 1274 1921 39 26.9 2 1763 1043 1181 1119 16.7 1062 26.7 1024 1081 1212 1150 1243 30 16.6 23 31 986 1005 1842 1119 1100 24 2000 1684 948 967 1081 1921 6 929 1062 910 1043 1633 Pos. Name Class Race
27 Castle Combe - May 19th 2002 Photos by Robert Smith Studios The Prologue he did with disturbing regularity. He won. Unsurprisingly, young Mr. English won the unfaired class. Fiona Grove used her still not- It is not sunny, still windy and of a temperature Miles Kingsbury temperate enough to make the prospect of a quite-finished fabric fairing on the Velodynamics two-hour race slightly more appealing than it (having tried and discarded it as scary in was in 2000. Which is nice, but not very. Three Manchester), but it wasn’t quite enough to rest hours in Lelystad? As a time-trial? We must all the Ladies win from Claire King. An excellent be stark staring mad. And it only rained a little turn-out of trikes today, with six, plus Rob bit. And unless Rob English agrees to carry a Mather’s faired example and Great Central couple of bricks in his tail fairing from now on, I pedal car racer Mark Williams’ faired four- shall reveal the Truth about… wheeler (with extra bodywork from their recent 1000 mile epic run at Curborough), and Bob The Race Knight clinched it, as he has practically since records began. Sole junior representative today is Stuart Slade, while Mike Burrows takes the Charge!! Rob English departs the start line like Sports class. the proverbial bat out of wossname and by the time I have got onto the big ring, he is a dot on the horizon and running approximately one inch New Stuff off Tim Costen’s tail, a position which he will occupy for the next eighty or so minutes. Your Nice to see the resurrected HPV-Heaven Editor fails to occupy the same position relative streamliner of Geoff Bird coming out to play to Steve Donaldson, due in part to being unable once more. A few teething problems left it to see my toes that easily, but mainly due to stationary for some considerable time, though being too slow. Still, it was nice to scream past once he got the beast underway, Geoff’s new the remainder of the unfaired field with a cry of mount demonstrated that the speed it showed “”Flat out, top gear, no mercy!” in my best in Brighton was no accident. Ian Willett also Finnish rally drive voice, before settling down to brought his new streamliner out to play – an time-trial the rest of the way, with occasional elegant blue and yellow Davies fairing now bouts of terror when a Chattington or similar surrounding the Mark II Ironing Board. If I looms up in the mirror. Which, it has to be said, remember correctly, he suffered a wind-assisted crash during the warm- up, and also had a few problems during the race, but plugged on to the end as well. Also new was Mr. Burrows’ long-awaited interpreta- tion of the low racer theme. The RatRacer didn’t actually race, Ratwise or otherwards, as Mike is waiting for the “shiny carbon tailbox” before unleash- ing it on an unsuspect- ing world, but it’s pretty much as one would expect – fat aluminium tubes, monostay on the back, carbon monoblade on the front, posey handlebars too Adrian Setter (L) & Bob Knight lead the bunch difficult to describe
28 Your Editor, Cosimo the Stealth Baron and his “Fred” socks It’s the Editor’s prerogative to be mean, selfish and fill the newsletter with photographs of himself...
The Brothers Cox, pursued by Ian Willett
29 Without The Aid Of Diagrams, so let’s hope that Quote Of The Day either I remember the camera at Hayes or that Paul Davies’ photographer chum managed to “Graaaaarrrrggghhhh!” – A TVR Griffith 500, in get a snap of it. [Blast! Neither transpired - Ed.] the Bell Common tunnel on the M25
Davies Variations: Left - Andrew Willmott
Davies Variations: Right - Ian Chattington
Davies Variations: Left - Ian Willett
Davies Variations: Right - Paul Davies
Davies Variations: Left - Rob Mather Where did that dent come from???
30 Points Position OULMSJ O U L M S J Laps Castle Combe - 2 hours 1lap + Vehicle Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Chattington Ian 2 Davies Paul 3 Slade Steve 4 Green gNick 5 English Rob 6 Willmott Andrew 7Anonymous Mather Rob Equus 8 Costen Tim 9 Donaldson Steve Wheels On Fish Wooden A D6 Wasp II O Baron Optima O Davies Trike Davies 35 Wasp II 30 Wasp II 123 123 O/U 07 O 44 O 50.7 O 43.2 31.5 30 O 32 26.9 1 32 O 124 4 124 30 O 24 123 29 12 124 57 43.0 28 125 45.9 59 26.7 28 46.0 39 127 28.5 5 42.8 28.6 126 3 41.1 00 1 26.6 2 14 25.6 39.3 6 7 2000 39.5 24.4 1763 24.6 9 8 1684 2000 1842 1921 1633 1582 1480 1531 10 Larrington Dave 11 Setter Adrian 12 Mik13 Burrows e Cox Chris 14 Cox Pete 15 Knight Bob 16 Field Patrick 17 Whitehead Paul 18 Cosimo Sleath Clive 19 Rankin Don 20 Hurricane King Claire 21 Ratcatcher Reed 9 Vaughan 22 Bird Geoff 23 Lowing Paul Wyre24 Windcheetah Baron Optima Grove 9 Fiona Ratcatcher II Lune 25 O/U Hembrow David 26 Hague Rob O/U27 O/U/S Sleep Screech Mike 28 25 Willett Kingcycle Baron Ian Optima 29 Wilson Denise 23 Kingcycle O/U/M30 124 O/U O/U/S 23 Fleming Neil 31 124 O/U Williams Heaven Mark HPV 3332 T5 O/U Velodynamics 124 23 Lowing Carolyn 33 34 23 Ross 23 35.8 Traylor Huw Ross34 35 126 O/U/S GLR 23 22.2 Greenspeed Hunt 32.9 O/U Marcus 128 O/U/S 12835 23 10 Harris Rob 28 32.9 20.436 124 02 Jenkins 05 O/L 2 Kevin 125 22 1137 20.4 32.4Board O/L 22 Ross 22 Cole Ironing Dan 53 3 O 32.038 Festina 32.0 11 Speedmachine 125 20.1 12 Brian39 Dalton 19.9 O/U/M 125 128 32.8 19.9 22 15 Jenkins Anna 4 32.740 Bike 15 Type Blue 16 D O/U/S 17 21 20.4 Slade 7 Stuart 20 46 O/U/S41 20.3 8 125 21 9 Woolrich 13 Jonathan 31.3 20 Windcheetah 124 14 31.3 30.4 Windcheetah 5 21 21 19.5 123 6 123 21 19.4 O/U/S 41 18.9 1 O 18 Windcheetah 31.3 1429 123 O/U/S 31 19 1 21 O/U/L 1921 10 53 128 30.0 11Special 12 Mather 19.4 Rob 1398 2 32 1842 O/U/L/S 30.3 20 18.7 20 28.8 26 20 20 O/U/M 20 1367 18.8 O 25 30.3 Kingcycle 17.9 1763 128 O/U/M 1274 Shopper 19 1582 29.1 22 1243 Tric 126 24 18.8 125 e 1531 126 Kingcycle 1212 3 1 47 1480 18.1 O/U/M 19 15 23 125 4 O/U/S 2 15 17 1336 32 18 26 2000 1684 19 13 1305 27.7 1633 126 14 03 1181 28.2 28.4 17 28.2 1429 17.2 127 2000 123 2 1150 16 1398 24 1100 17.5 27.1 17.7 30 1921 17.5 1367 O/U/L/S 02 124 52 28 18 27 16.8 124 29 O/U/S O/U/S 26.8 O/U/S/J 16 17 5 32 46 25.3 1119 27.3 16.6 15 01 O/U/M 6 19 3 1043 1842 15.7 33 17.0 1005 18 24.3 1274 1763 4 7 23.0 8 130 34 1081 20 2000 31 1062 15.1 1336 21 1024 1921 127 14.3 8 15 1305 29 36 130 123 1921 7 37 23 25 9 3 24 128 20.5 29 56 4 929 25.2 12.7 1181 49 986 1684 948 11.5 9.6 5 39 1243 15.6 1212 891 1633 1842 967 1150 26 1763 7.1 35 20.8 5.9 5 11 22 872 40 41 12.9 1119 853 27 1480 1531 1100 28 38 1582 910 815 796 12 25 1842 1062 1043 1763 10 1684 758 13 14 6 1005 1684 1 834 1398 1081 739 726 986 1367 967 777 1024 1429 1336 2000 1305 1633 Pos. Na me Cla ss
31 Wasp Variations: Above - Tim Costen, tailed by Rob English Below: Steve Donaldson
32 Left: gNick Green Also visible in the back- ground: Stuart Slade (L) and Brian Dalton. No, really... Below: Geoff Bird
Slash
gNick Green pursued by Paul Davies. Get out your Junior Pocket Microscope Model 3a (® Paul Craig) to confirm that it really is Steve Slade in the background...
33 Top to bottom: Dan Cole, Mike Burrows, Mark Williams
34 Hayes - June 9th 2002 The Prologue but Ian Chattington is off the front as usual, pursued by Steve Slade, while Rob English, this Where did the queues go? Ever since we’ve time on the Baron, is mixing it with Paul Davies been coming to Hayes, it’s taken about half an and Andrew Willmott, and yes, they were both hour to get from the roundabout off the A312 to fully-faired. Mike Burrows, who is either a the circuit, even in 1998 when the race glutton for punishment or in need of some miles coincided with the British Grand Prix, the World on the new bike, is doing this race too, on the Cup Final and a torrential downpour... This RatRacer, and I hang around with him and year, we drove straight in. And promptly Dave Moreno for a couple of laps until Geoff descended mob-handed on Young Master Bird gets the HPV-Heaven streamliner into its Robert’s new device (as featured elsewhere in stride to pass us. I jumped on his tail for a few this issue). Until Kevin and Anna Jenkins and hundred yards, mainly for a laugh, but that was Paul London managed to beat those assembled enough to get clear, and the rest of the race into order and get them going. was a pretty lonely business… Ian Chattington, Rob English, Bob Knight – the usual suspects Race 1 finishing in the usual positions. Hats off to Denise Wilson who arrived quite late Because he is either a glutton for punishment or and raced her road-going BikeE in the absence in need of some miles on the new bike, Rob of her Festina (the suspicion being that Bikefix’ English had elected to do both races, and Transport Captain JP had seen the weather promptly stormed off into a seemingly unassail- forecast and wisely elected to spend his able lead… but a few laps in came walking back birthday in bed rather than carting bikes around to the start with a flat rear tyre. He immediately "). In view of the prevailing conditions, most set about replacing the tube, but that left a people were being very careful at the lo-o-o-o- group of five – Mike Burrows on his Ratcatcher, ong right-hander at the bottom of the hill – at the Speedmachines of Neil Fleming and Stuart one point I actually repassed gNick here, and Dennison, Don Rankin’s Kingcycle and David another time was able to catch a tow from Hembrow’s Ross – running in front. Said group Steve Slade for half a lap or so – but there were gradually shedding members over the forty- no wrecks and nobody drownded apart from the minute duration, until such time as only Stuart gaffer tape holding down the lid of Ian Willett’s and Mike remained. Into the final straight, and fairing, which obliged him to retire. If Ian is matters are complicated by the pair having to wondering what happened to his result, I’m lap Jonathan Woolrich, who was himself closing afraid I have to answer “I don’t know”. With the on Andrew Warnock’s Kettwiesel. Stuart went rain now approaching “downpour” level, round the outside, while Mike clung to the inside everyone was disinclined to take part in any and just got to the line first. A somewhat kind of “fun” race, so everyone went home and depleted field of Ladies saw Fiona Grove had a nice cup of tea instead. consolidate her championship lead, while an equally depleted field of Juniors saw Katherine Sidwell ahead of Andrew Warnock, thereby New Stuff closing the gap somewhat on the absent Stuart Slade. The rumour that she also beat Jonathan Everyone was drooling over the Hachi. Woolrich is, alas, unfounded ". And if Rob Meanwhile, Mike Burrows had the RatRacer English is wondering what happened to his there with its new tail fairing, which reminds result, I’m afraid I have to answer “I don’t know”. your Editor strongly of the rear end of the Frank Costin[1]-designed F1 Vanwall, circa 1958. Race 2 American Dave’s Festina is now fitted with a monoblade fork, which looks very neat. Ian Miller was going pretty well on a Brompton fitted Natch as soon as everyone is lined up on the with the Juliane Neuß recumbent conversion kit, track, it begins to rain, which it continues to do, and Dan Cole somewhat better than at the with variable vigour and wind speed, for the rest Combe on the neat tail-faired Rob Mather of the day, chiz. It’s difficult to see what’s going Special. And nice to see Hermione Brightwell, on here, given the way the track is configured,
35 making her BHPC debut (having done some or • People running both races have been possibly all of the London Series at Herne Hill) credited with their best result only. on the Challenge Mistral – this being somewhat Hence Rob English, having done both akin to a Hurricane but with a higher seat. races on Open/Unfaired class machines, only gets points for his performance in Quote Of The Day race 2. • But, Mike Burrows did race 1 on an Open/ “If Dave Larrington laps me, I’m going to give up Unfaired/Sports class bike, and race 2 on on low racers and stick to the Sports Class” - an Open/Unfaired one. So I have credited Mike Burrows, prior to race 2. Go on, check the him with Sports Class points from race 1, results " and Open & Unfaired from race 2. Geddit? NB: In case you’re wondering about the scoring: 1. HPV Connections: Frank Costin = half- brother of Mike Costin. Mike Costin • I’m pretty sure Ian Willett didn’t do as worked at De Havilland along with Peter many laps as Andrew Warnock, so that’s Ross… why he’s credited with 34th
Hayes Race 1 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Mike Burrows Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 18 44 04 37.5 23.3 2 Stuart Dennison Speedmachine O/U/S 18 44 04 37.5 23.3 3 Don Rankin Kingcycle O/U/S 18 45 09 36.6 22.7 4 Neil Fleming Speedmachine O/U/S 18 45 39 36.2 22.5 5 David Hembrow Ross O/U/S 17 44 07 35.4 22.0 6 Dan Cole Rob Mather Special O/U/S 16 44 29 33.0 20.5 7 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR O/U/M 16 44 34 33.0 20.5 8 Mike Sleep Ross O/U/S 16 44 36 32.9 20.5 9 Dennis Adcock O/U 16 46 15 31.8 19.7 10 Fiona Grove Velodynamics T5 O/L 15 44 45 30.8 19.1 11 Jonathan Woolrich Shopper O/U/S 14 44 05 29.2 18.1 12 Kevin Jenkins Windcheetah O/U/M 14 45 14 28.4 17.7 13 Ian Miller Recumbrompton O/U/S 14 45 16 28.4 17.6 14 Dave Warnock Road Shark O/U/M 14 47 08 27.3 16.9 15 Anna Jenkins Kingcycle O/U/L/S 13 45 53 26.0 16.2 16 Katherine Sidwell Snow Leopard II O/U/L/S/J 13 45 55 26.0 16.2 17 Andrew Warnoc k Kettwiesel O/U/M/J 9 49 33 16.7 10.4 18 Rob English Hachi O/U ? ? ? - -
Hayes Race 2 Pos Name Vehicle Class Laps Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Ian Chattington Equus Anonymous O 23 43 31 48.5 30.2 2 Steve Slade Wasp II O 23 45 10 46.7 29.1 3 Paul Davies D6 O 22 44 40 45.2 28.1 4 Andrew Willmott Davies O 22 44 46 45.1 28.0 5 Rob English Optima Baron O/U 22 45 37 44.3 27.5 6 gNick Green A Wooden Fish On Wheels O 21 44 20 43.5 27.0 7 Geoff Bird HPV Heaven O 21 45 38 42.2 26.3 8 Dave Larrington Cosimo O/U 20 44 40 41.1 25.5 9 Mike Burrows RatRacer O/U 19 45 54 38.0 23.6 10 Bob Knight Windcheetah O/U/M 18 44 14 37.4 23.2 11 Dave Moreno Festina O/U 18 46 06 35.8 22.3 12 Patrick Field Ratcatcher 9 O/U/S 17 44 25 35.1 21.8 13 Andrew Sidwell Dilli-Dalli O/U/S 17 45 04 34.6 21.5 14 Paul London Falcon O 17 45 25 34.4 21.4 15 Vaughan Reed Optima Baron O/U 15 45 34 30.2 18.8 16 Hermione Brightwell Challenge Mistral O/U/L/S 14 44 30 28.9 17.9 17 Denise Wilson BikeE O/U/L/S 13 46 34 25.6 15.9 18 Ian Willett Ironing Board O ? ? ? - - 36 Points Position OULMSJ O U L M S J Pos Laps Hayes - 40 minutes + 1 lap 1 + 40 minutes Hayes - Vehicle Min Sec Km/h MPH 1 Ian Chattington2 Slade Steve 3 Paul4 Davies Andrew5 Willmott Rob E6 nglish gNic7Green k Bird Geoff 8 Larrington Equus Anony Dave 9 mous Burrows Mike II Wasp A Wooden Fish Optima On Wheels Davies Baron Hachi D6 O Cosimo Heaven HPV O RatRacer 2 O/U O 1 O 2 2 23 2 O O O/U 6 5 43 O/U 2 2 21 22 31 23 2 2 2 4 44 45 2 48.5 45 8 7 3 22 20 30.2 9 37 10 20 21 22 1 44 43.5 19 44.3 46.7 44 45 44 27.0 46 29.1 27.5 45 6 40 38 2 40 5 45.1 54 41.1 42.2 1 28.0 45.2 25.5 26.3 38.0 4 28.1 8 7 23.6 3 9 2 3 2000 1633 1921 1684 2000 1531 1763 1921 1582 1480 1842 1842 10 Stuart11 Dennison Knight Bob 12 Rankin Don 13 Neil Fleming14 Moreno Dave 15 David Hembrow16 Patric17 k Field Sidwell Andrew Speedmachine18 London Paul 19 Dan Cole20 Windcheetah Rob Hague21 Kingcycle Mike Sleep22 Speedmachine Adcock Dennis 23 PDQ Ross Fiona O/U/S Grove Festina24 Reed Vaughan 25 Dilli-Dalli Woolrich Ratcatc O/U/M Jonathan her 926 Hermione 1 Brightwell27 O/U/S Falcon Kevin Jenkins O/U/S28 Rob 2 Mather Special Miller Ian 2 Greenspeed29 GLR Warnock Dave O/U/S 1030 1 18 Anna Jenkins31 1 18 Baron O/U O/U/S Optima Velodynamic O/U/S KatherineSidwell s32 T5 Shopper Ros s 3 Challenge Wilson Mistral 44 Denise 1 433 44 O/U/S Andrew 18 Warnock 2 O/U/M 04 18 2 5 2 O 1434 Willett Ian 45 13 Windcheetah 37.5 11 17 12 37.4 1 45 Shark Road O/U 17 1 Recumbrompton 09 O/L O/U/L/S 23.3 23.2 18 17 Snow O/U/S 44 Leopard 6 II 39 2 11 10 36.6 45 7 O/U/S Kingcyc 5 le 46 O/U 4 44 16 14 22.7 36.2 2 07 2 04 16 1 BikeE 1 Kettwiesel 12 17 22.5 06 15 O/U/M 25 35.4 16 44 6 O/U/S 1 34.6 O/U/M 10 11 1 44 13 1 O/U/L/S 15 22.0 45 35.8 /J 21.5 35.1 14 Board 7 29 14 15 Ironing 8 17 15 34 2 9 22.3 1 21.8 1 1 45 25 11 44 33.0 9 1 O/U/L/S 44 16 44 14 16 33.0 16 12 14 13 34.4 34 3 1398 20.5 1684 10 8 O/U/M/J 16 O/U/L/S 1429 30 05 20.5 1763 44 21.4 45 14 14 14 46 19 30.2 1 4 13 18 20 28.9 29.2 12 2000 1367 18.8 30.8 1633 2 7 36 47 13 45 45 15 1 O 15 18.1 5 24 17.9 45 19.1 17 25 16 1336 32.9 31.8 08 13 6 17 26 16 1582 14 17 23 1212 1921 1398 13 18 19.7 55 20.5 2 1274 27.3 28.4 9 28.4 1480 2 45 22 8 2 1842 21 1243 16.9 26.0 15 46 17.6 1429 1305 17.7 14 1 18 29 1531 53 49 28 16.2 21 27 34 1763 1150 10 20 11 1582 1367 ? 31 19 1119 26.0 33 1336 25.6 23 1181 1684 16.2 1024 1043 1212 4 1243 15.9 ? 1005 4 16.7 1633 1181 9 30 32 3 1921 1921 10.4 24 22 12 1062 1531 ? 33 5 1081 3 14 1274 1100 1398 1305 25 1 1429 948 967 2000 - 1100 1119 910 986 15 13 1062 1150 1763 5 1763 - 891 1480 929 1043 1842 1684 1305 34 1081 1367 2000 1842 2 872 1274 1024 1336 1684 1921 834 (34) Rob E nglish Hac hi U/S 1 18 ? ? ? - - (34) (26) 0 0 (10) Burrows Mike 9 Ratcatcher O/U/S 1 1 18 44 04 37.5 23.3 (10) (4) 1 0 0 2000 Pos. Name Class Race
37 Which diverse footling leaves the tables looking Anyway, it looks like a dead cert for Messrs. like what is this innit. And if all you people who Chattington and Knight, and probably for Mr. insist on using umpteen different machines in English as well, unless he is dragged off to twelfty different classes would stick to just one America with no hope of remission. Though machine next year, it would make my life a lot one should at this point remember what easier. Thank you " happened to the Elder Herr Schumacher in 1999. Hals-und-Beinbruch, as they say in Walthamstow. However, the Ladies and Sports classes are still wide open, and Katherine assures me that: Open M C I 1. She is competing in all the remaining M L A A S races, and T N T O H T C L 2. She has every intention of not letting N A O H E Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T E Stuart take the title off her… K E A S C E S L T O Y E M N R E B E S Unfaired 1 Ian Chattington Equus Anonymous 2000 2000 2000 2000 8000 M C 2 S teve S lade Was p II 1921 1921 1842 1921 7605 I 3 P aul Davies D6 1842 1842 1921 1842 7447 M L A A S Optima Baron T 4 Rob English 1582 1763 1684 1684 6713 N T Hachi O H T C L 5 Dave Larrington Cosimo 1531 1633 1429 1531 6124 N A O H E 6 Bob Knight Windcheetah 1429 1531 1274 1398 5632 Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T E 7 gNick Green A Wooden Fish On Wheels 1763 0 1763 1633 5159 K E A S C 8 Andrew Willmott Davies 1633 0 1633 1763 5029 E S L T O 9 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR 1100 1100 1005 1119 4324 Y E M 10 P ete Cox Lune II 1398 1582 1305 0 4285 N 11 Fiona G rove V elody namics T5 1062 948 1043 1062 4115 R E B E Ratcatcher 9 S 12 Mike Burrows 0 1243 1367 1480 4090 RatRac er Optim a Baron 1 Rob English 2000 2000 2000 2000 8000 13 Adrian Setter Hurricane 1243 1429 1398 0 4070 Hachi 14 Dave Moreno Fes tina 1367 1367 0 1305 4039 2 Dave Larringt on Cosimo 1921 1921 1921 1921 7684 Festina 15 Denise Wilson 948 1005 948 891 3792 3 Bob Knight Windcheetah 1763 1763 1582 1684 6792 BikeE 4 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR 1305 1274 1274 1336 5189 16 P atrick Field Ratc at cher 9 0 1305 1243 1243 3791 5 P ete Cox Lune II 1684 1842 1633 0 5159 17 P aul Whitehead Optima Baron 1119 1398 1212 0 3729 Ratcatcher 9 6 Mike Burrows 0 1398 1763 1842 5003 18 K evin Jenkins Windcheetah 1005 872 815 986 3678 RatRac er Dilli-Dalli 19 A ndrew S idwell 1274 1181 0 1212 3667 7 A drian S et ter Hurricane 1480 1633 1842 0 4955 Tc haik ows ki 8 Dave Moreno Fes tina 1633 1531 0 1531 4695 20 P aul London Falcon 1305 1119 0 1181 3605 Festina 9 Denis e Wils on 1119 1119 1212 1043 4493 21 P aul Lowing Ross 1150 1336 1062 0 3548 BikeE PDQ 22 David Hembrow 0 1212 1024 1274 3510 10 K evin Jenk ins Windcheet ah 1212 1024 1062 1150 4448 Ross 11 Paul Whitehead Optima Baron 1336 1582 1480 0 4398 23 A nna Jenk ins K 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Ironing Board 0 0 967 853 1820 32 Dennis A dc ock 0 1062 0 1274 2336 46 Jonathan Woolrich S hopper 0 0 726 1024 1750 33 Marcus Hunt Windcheet ah 0 1150 1100 0 2250 47Rob Harris 09108340174434 Jonathan Woolrich S hopper 0 0 967 1212 2179 Vision 48 Huw Traylor 08348720170635 Rob Harris 0 1043 1081 0 2124 Windcheetah Vision 36 Huw Traylor 0 986 1119 0 2105 49 Rob Mather Davies Trike 0 0 1582 0 1582 Windcheetah 50 Brian Dalton Trice 0 739 777 0 1516 37 Brian Dalton Trice 0 891 1024 0 1915 51 Tim E lsdale P rone 1480 0 0 0 1480 38 Tim Elsdale P rone 1842 0 0 0 1842 52 S tuart Dennison S peedmachine 0 0 0 1429 1429 39 S tuart Dennison S peedmac hine 0 0 0 1763 1763 53 Dave Redknap Quadras 0 1062 0 0 1062 40 A nne Couls on K ingc ycle 1243 0 0 0 1243 54 Hermione Bright well Challenge Mis tral 0 0 0 1005 1005 41 Dave Redk nap Quadras 0 1212 0 0 1212 55 Keith Rogers Kingcycle 986 0 0 0 986 42 Hermione Bright well Challenge Mistral 0 0 0 1181 1181 56 Ian Mille r Recu mb ro mp to n 0 0 0 96 7 96 7 42 Keith Rogers Kingcycle 1181 0 0 0 1181 56 Phil Wray Optima Baron 0 967 0 0 967 44 Ian Miller Recumbrompton 0 0 0 1119 1119 58 Mark W illiams D Type 0 0 910 0 910 45 P hil Wray Optima Baron 0 1081 0 0 1081 59 Nigel B radder S treet Mac hine GT 853 0 0 0 853 46 Nigel Bradder S treet Mac hine GT 1024 0 0 0 1024 60 Heat her B radder Ok e-Ja 834 0 0 0 834 47 Heat her B radder Ok e-Ja 1005 0 0 0 1005 61 Terry Clark Kingcycle 0 726 0 0 726 48 Terry Clark Kingcycle 0 872 0 0 872 62 Lorna Wray Moult on A PB 0 687 0 0 687 49 Lorna Wray Moult on A PB 0 834 0 0 834 63 Jeff Clements Red St reak 0 0 0 0 0 50Jeff Clements Red Streak 00000 38 Sports Multi-Track M M C C I I M A M A L L A S A S T T N T N T O H T O H T C L C L N A O N A O H E H E Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T E E K E A K E A S C S C E S L E S L T O T O Y Y E M E M N N R B R B E E E E S S 1 Mike Burrows Ratcatcher 9 0 1842 2000 2000 5842 1 Bob Knight Windcheetah 2000 2000 2000 2000 8000 2 Anna Jenkins Kingcycle 1582 1480 1367 1336 5765 2 Rob Hague Greenspeed GLR 1921 1921 1921 1921 7684 3 P atrick Field Ratc at cher 9 0 1921 1921 1633 5475 3 K evin Jenk ins Windcheet ah 1842 1763 1684 1842 7131 4 P aul Lowing Ross 1763 2000 1684 0 5447 4 Dave Warnock Road Shark 1763 1684 0 1763 5210 PDQ 5David Hembrow 0 1763 1633 1684 5080 5 Andrew Warnock Kettwiesel 1684 1582 0 1684 4950 Ross 6 Marcus Hunt Windcheet ah 0 1842 1763 0 3605 6 Carolyn Lowing B lue Bike 1531 1582 1480 0 4593 7 Brian Dalton Trice 0 1633 1633 0 3266 7 Stuart Slade Kingcycle 1480 1429 1336 0 4245 8 Huw Tray lor Windcheet ah 0 0 1842 0 1842 8 K atherine Sidwell S now Leopard II 1429 1398 0 1305 4132 9 Clive S leat h S creech 2000 0 1842 0 3842 10 Don Rankin K ingc ycle 0 0 1763 1842 3605 11 J-P de Matos Ratc at cher 9 1842 1684 0 0 3526 Junior 12 Andrew Sidwell Dilli-Dalli 1921 0 0 1582 3503 M C 13 Neil Fleming S peedmac hine 0 0 1531 1763 3294 I M A 14 Mike Sleep Ross 0 0 1582 1480 3062 L A S 14 Rob Harris 0 1633 1429 0 3062 T N T 16 Dan Cole Rob Mather Spec ial 0 0 1398 1531 2929 O H T C L 17 Jonathan Woolrich S hopper 0 0 1305 1429 2734 N A O H E 18 S tuart Dennison S peedmac hine 0 0 0 1921 1921 Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T E 19 A nne Couls on K ingc ycle 1684 0 0 0 1684 K E A S C 20 K eith Rogers K ingc ycle 1633 0 0 0 1633 E S L T O 21 Huw Tray lor V is ion 0 1531 0 0 1531 Y E M 22 Hermione Bright well Challenge Mistral 0 0 0 1398 1398 N R B 22 Nigel Bradder S treet Mac hine GT 1398 0 0 0 1398 E E 24 Heat her B radder Ok e-Ja 1367 0 0 0 1367 S 24 Ian Miller Recumbrompton 0 0 0 1367 1367 1 Stuart Slade Kingcycle 2000 2000 2000 0 6000 24 Terry Clark K ingc ycle 0 1367 0 0 1367 2 K atherine Sidwell S now Leopard II 1921 1921 0 2000 5842 27 Lorna Wray Moult on A PB 0 1336 0 0 1336 3 A ndrew Warnock K ett wiesel 1763 1842 0 1921 5526 28 Denis e Wils on B ik eE 0 0 0 1274 1274 4 Heat her B radder Ok e-Ja 1842 0 0 0 1842
Ladies M C I M L A A S T N T O H T C L N A O H E Pos Name Vehicle(s) Y T E K E A S C E S L T O Y E M N R B E E S 1 Fiona Grove Velodynamics T5 1921 1921 1921 2000 7763 Festina 2 Denis e Wils on 1684 2000 1842 1684 7210 BikeE 3 Anna Jenkins Kingcycle 17631684168418426973 4 Claire King Kingcycle 2000 1582 2000 0 5582 5 Carolyn Lowing B lue Bike 1633 1763 1763 0 5159 6 K atherine Sidwell S now Leopard II 1582 1633 0 1763 4978 7 A nne Couls on K ingc ycle 1842 1842 0 0 3684 8 Hermione Bright well Challenge Mistral 0 0 0 1921 1921 9 Heat her B radder Ok e-Ja 1531 0 0 0 1531 9 Lorna Wray Moult on A PB 0 1531 0 0 1531 SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE TAKES ON HUMAN POWER By Clive Sleath As the result of an e-mail circulated by Dennis and a few carefully selected bits of material, to be Turner regarding “Scrapheap Challenge”, gNick seeded in the scrapyard on build day. Green and your author Clive Sleath volunteered to be Technical Consultants and pit their wits gNick and I both arrived at the muddy scrapyard on against each other in a task to build a clockwork the Tuesday afternoon for a familiarisation session. car with their respective teams, using stored We spent a while checking out the yard, which was human energy. well stocked with scrap, the majority of which did not look like the sort of lightweight material that we The filming was to take place in early May at a usually use for building human powered vehicles. scrapyard in Wokingham. This was preceded by a month of exchanging design sketches and Next it was back to the hotel and intro to our calculations with the assistant producers for respective teams. gNick was paired up with ‘Jail their scrutiny, ensuring that we had concepts Break’, a team of prison warders with baseball bat that would work and could be built from scrap wielding team captain Mick, who at dinner later was 39 making it very clear that he did not like taking town, with only us and a couple of engineers orders from anyone. gNick already had his present. No cameras, no food, and tools piled work cut out for the next day. I was paired with everywhere from the day before. We finally left ‘The Young Ones’, the youngest team ever to around mid afternoon and headed for a enter with had an average age of 19. It supermarket to find some fodder. certainly made me feel like the old man on the team. Friday was competition day. This was set in a sports stadium, with the production team in full Wednesday morning had us all up at some force. Some early shots of the teams bursting unearthly hour and off to the scrapyard for through the stadium doors and sprinting down bacon butties. On arrival the scrapyard had the track to their machines were interspersed transformed from a relatively deserted place to with gutter humour whilst we waited behind the a hive of activity. Around 60 people forming the closed doors for the cameras to get in position. production team, camera crews, sound, lighting, Then the rest of the morning was spent catering etc. had descended on the place. feverishly tinkering and painting the vehicles. gNick and team did some engine rebuilding on First job was kitting up in shiny new overalls, their machine and we used strips of lead to neck mikes, tool belts, helmets etc. A quick change the gearing on ours – bizarre, you may safety briefing and it’s off to the build areas. think. There was definitely no shortage of gear, every Dewalt power tool you can imagine and if The afternoon was full of tense competition something you wanted was not there you only between both teams and the cameras trying to had to ask and it appeared. It felt a bit like get some exciting footage of vehicles whose being king for a day. performance would best be described as pedestrian. Rob Llewelyn and Lisa did their intro stuff to the teams about 4 times, Rob progressively As for the results I cannot say, as some were forgetting his lines. Then followed the board close. The series is on Septemberish on chat with the teams, again 4 times over to get Channel 4 and should be well worth a watch. different camera angles. The phrases ‘Can you do that again’ and ‘Unsync wide’ became ‘in’ jokes as the day progressed.
Build finally commenced nearly 3 hours after arriving on set. For my part it’s definitely not any easier than it looks on the TV, and trying to make progress by doing everything twice for the camera, and the persistent stoppages by the producers et al. who come round to tell you that you are behind schedule and need to get building tend to prevent you from getting building. Ho hum!
About 12 hours later it’s nearly all over, and the final few minutes saw a lot of duct tape being used to beautify the masterpiece. The time out hooter goes and we were ushered to the changing room for a beer before heading for the hotel bar for more beer.
Thursday was a day off for the teams. The Young Ones stayed in the hotel and recuper- ated; Jail Break did a bit of local visiting. gNick and I went back to the scrapyard to make the machines safe and in my case, complete a few vital tasks. The scrapyard resembled a ghost
40 This Just In... Help Wanted Although, of course, it won’t technically be a Mike Burrows says that: bicycle. Whiting is working on a design for a trike, a three-wheel cycle that is ridden lying “Arnfried Schmitz is looking for collaborators to down. Recumbent cycles hold many of the work with him on the continuing history of the speed records for human-powered vehicles, but HPV movement, and also someone to work on they have been lacking in design. restoring a Mochet Velocar. Anyone interested should write to Arnfried at: “Trike design is really in its infancy,” Whiting says, “since the trike has only been in evolution ‘Gallas’ since the 1980s. That fact alone warrants F84220 Lioux Gordes further design study. However, with few France” exceptions, current recumbent cycles in production seem overengineered and lacking Bus-Tastic! any emotional design input.” Whiting’s skill at 3D rendering made his work on I would have put this photo in the last issue if I’d the trike easier than it would be with paper and remembered, but I didn’t. Anyway, wot we ‘ave pencil. He used the same techniques to design ‘ere is what lies beneath the body of the Double a three-wheeled car. Whiting began work on the Gold Rush. The featured pilots are Tanya car but sold what had been built for money to Markham and Macky Martin. continue working on the trike. The current owner plans to continue developing the car to Whiting’s specifications.
Before he even sat down to start sketching his trike, Whiting sought input from riders around the world, and the result is a trike that he can be proud to present to the interna- tional community. And building his own project has taught him the value of design efficiency.
But more than anything, Whiting has approached this project because he loves doing it.
It Sez ‘ere
REINVENTING THE THREE-WHEELER
From: ARCHITECTURAL RECORD 1st June 2002 by Kevin Lerner
Eric Whiting, of Saratoga Associates in Saratoga Springs, New York, thinks he can probably remember every brand of bicycle he has ever owned. And if all goes well, his next could be one of his own design.
41 More Help Wanted
I have just noticed that record of who has won what in the Club’s history are somewhat sketchy. So if you did, please let me know what you won and which year you did it. Alterna- tively, if you are currently in possession of one of the trophies, could you have a look at the names and dates on the side? Thanks ever so… “Trikes are cool,” he said. “They’re like comfort- able, aerodynamic, leg-powered dragsters. We Mean It, Maaan! Besides, I guess bicycles to me are like chairs to other designers: beautiful utilitarian objects. I Richard Middleton kindly sent me a copy of can’t stop staring.” “Summer In The City - A Guide To Leicester”, drawing my attention to page 21. Where I Now if he’d combined the two, he’d have ended found the photo below. Gawd bless you, up with something not dissimilar to the Go-One ma’am, In-ger-lund, In-ger-lund, In-ger-lund, velomobile… etc. etc.
42 Compare and contrast: in the foreground Cosimo the Stealth Baron (prior to the addition of tail fairing and wheel discs) and behind, your Editor’s Speedmachine, now relegated to commuting.
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