I’ll be back! Geoff Bird Auditions For The Title Role In “Terminator IV” Summer 2001 Issue 65 BHPC Newsletter - Issue 65 Front Cover: Fiona Grove? Back Cover: Provided by Dave Williams Contents Events 2001 gNick and Others 3 News And Related Munting The Editor And His Spies 5 Letters General Public, VC, DSO 12 Racing Roundup Dave Larrington, Fiona Grove 15 Builders Corner Harry Mansfield 30 Why The Wind Is Always Against You Robert Matthews 32 Trike-It James Tobin & Carolyn Sharples 33 Some Quick Reviews Dave Larrington 36 World Championships Update Jonathan Woolrich 37 Late News 38 Suppliers & Wants 43 The Legendary Paul Davies Column is on holiday... Objectives: The British Human Power Club was formed to foster all aspects of human-powered vehicles - air, land & water - for competitive, recreational and utility activities, to stimulate innovation in design and development in all spheres of HPV's, and to promote and to advertise the use of HPV's in a wide range of activities. So long, Douglas. OFFICERS Chairman & Press Officer Membership & Distribution Richard Ballantine Dennis Turner 30 Oppidans Road 7 West Bank, London NW3 3AG Abbot's Park ! 020 7722 6918 Chester, CH1 4BD e-mail: [email protected] ! Home 01244 376665 Secretary e-mail: [email protected] Steve Donaldson Librarian 15 Station Road Pete Cox Dyce, Aberdeen 11a Lorne St AB21 7BA Chester, CH1 4AE ! Home 01224 772164 ! Home 01244 376776 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: broken... Competition Secretary Newsletter Manglers gNick Green Dave & Tina Larrington 2 Broom House Cottages 166 Higham Hill Road Witton Gilbert London E17 6EJ Durham DH 7 6TR ! Home 0208 531 4496 ! Home 0191 371 0537 (after 19:00 weekdays Mobile 07971 519811 please...) e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Treasurer or: [email protected] Fiona Grove 7 Salmon Close BHPC on the Web: Bloxham, Banbury, http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ Oxon, OX15 4PJ ! Home 01295 721860 e-mail: [email protected] Issue 66 closes: 1st September 2001 Letters, articles, pictures, a new washing machine, etc. are always welcome - please send to the Editor at the address opposite. Technology being what it is these days, we can cope with most file formats readable by a PC (text in ASCII, Lotus WordPro/AmiPro or MS Word easiest to cope with), but if you haven't got one, items on paper are just as acceptable. To reduce cheesiness, electronically-transmitted photos should be at a resolution of 300 dpi (or greater if you can afford the bandwidth). A Day At The Races BHPC RACE EVENTS All events will be on the track for 11:00 unless otherwise stated Thursday August 2nd – Sunday August 5th World Championships – Brighton Saturday August 18th Lancaster Track has been booked for the Sunday as well but I thought we should continue the Saturday feel to this season. Saturday September 1st Curborough Due to motor car demand for the track we will be sharing this event with the Veteran cyclists (not the ordinaries just the older). A timetable for this event has now been put together. Remember this is a joint event with the League of Veteran Racing Cyclists so be there with plenty of spare time and be ready to race on the dot…otherwise no race. Start Time Event Distance 10.45 Category E,F & G Championship 35min+5laps 11.45 BHPC First Race 30min+3 12.30 BHPC Second Race 30min+3 13.30 Category C & D Championship 45min+5 14.45 Category A & B Championship 55min+5 16.15 BHPC Open 30min+3 Sunday October 7th Eastway AGM It is booked! HAND-PICKED OTHER EVENTS August 31st - September 1st Blainville / St. Eustache, Quebec, Canada North American HPV Championships. See http://www.geocities.com/torowa_ca/north_am.htm or e-mail [email protected] September 1st Laupen, Switzerland Rail HPV World Championships. More info on http://www.futurebike.ch/events/rail/index.html November 11th -12th Shepparton, Victoria, Australia OzHPV Challenge. More info on http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/community/ozhpv/ Please feel free to give the Editor a shout if you lack internetty stuff and want to know more about any of the above. 3 A Day (or More) Somewhere Else! UNRACE EVENTS July 27th - 30th Spokesfest 2001, Leicester http://www.spokesfest.freeserve.co.uk/, Spokesfest, PO Box 30, Leicester, LE1 9DG, tel: Roger Lovell - 0116 2781360 Simon Thomas - 0116 2891675 August 16th - 19th Eco-Trip, Finland. Ride your HPV / electric or solar vehicle in Europe's biggest archipelago, from island to island using 17 bridges and 9 ferries. Spend four days at a leisurely pace to cover 250 km landway and 40 km waterway over the islands in the beautiful south western part of Finland. You can make the tour also by an electric/solar boat. Contact: Olli Kuusisto, tel. +358 2 4110871, fax +358 2 2434066, e-mail: [email protected], http://www.abo.fi/~agustavs/echo/ (including on-line registration), address: PB 22, 20781 Kaarina, Finland. August 18th - 19th 2001 - A Cycling Odyssey, Lancaster a.k.a Bike-Right or Not Cyclefest. Based at Snatchems End on the Lune estuary as before. Contact Steve Andrews on 01524 824594", email: [email protected], web: http://sdk.tripod.com/cyclingodyssey.html August 25th - 26th 2001 - A Cycling Odyssey (Part 2), Kirk Newton, near Wooler, Northumbria - event cancelled due to foot and mouth September 22nd European Car-Free Day. See http://www.ecoplan.org/carfreeday/ October 26th - 28th Bike Right 007, Wooler Youth Hostel, Wooler, Northumbria A casual gathering, with "slightly organised social-paced rides" on the Saturday and Sunday. Accommodation is available at £8 per night, with breakfast £2.50. Details should be on http://www.therigg.demon.co.uk but more reliable would be to phone Tom or Rachel: 01668 282 209 or email [email protected]. Numbers are limited to 40. Lots more events - too numerous to list here - can be found on the web site of Peter Eland's new venture VeloVision. See http://www.velovision.co.uk/ The Editor Sticks His Head In A Pig It’s Like Tonsils They’re more trouble than they’re worth. No, the two-column experiment has been judged a hang on, that’s not right. What I meant to say is success by two people and a failure by none, so that this Newsletter is late as well. “So what’s it stays. Thanks to Jean Anderson and Richard the excuse this time?” asked the judge, peering Middleton for their kind words. over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Mainly Mrs. Larrington’s grandiose Scheme to Vaetternrundan Allows Remodel the West Wing, Your Honour” I Recumbents... Grudgingly replied, knowing full well that a word out of place could see me doing fifteen years at Her Paul Craig tells me that “The organisers of the Majesty’s Pleasure. “Preposterous!” barked Vaetternrundan, a large non-competitive ride Inspector Fairfax. “He’s just lazy! And an around Lake Vaettern in Sweden, have this year habitual criminal!”. allowed a limited number of recumbents to take part in the 180km event, after a complete ban “Silence in Court”, thundered the judge (cont. for several years...” Though this is not the real “My First Novel”, by D. Larrington”). Anyway, 4 Vaetternrundan, that being a full 300 km in “Georgi has decided to sell his fully-faired trike length, and moreover one which has been (“Torso 2”) and a number of molds and plugs. completed successfully and safely by a fair The molds are for the Varnas starting from the number of recumbents in the past, before the 1993 Varna Colorado up to Varna Orpheus and Organisators slapped this ridiculous unilaterl Varna Mephisto, the current world record ban on them (Is that fierce enough, Mats? - Ed.) holder. He is also making available the plugs for Varna Mephisto and Varna Orpheus The Good News... (Orpheus is wider than Mephisto). Prices range from $500 to $5,000 US. Arrangements can be ...is that someone has done a recumbent made for delivery, or pick-up in British Colum- conversion kit for the Birdy folding bike - see bia. below. Particularly good news in view of the fact that Juliane Neuss is scaling down Georgi is currently developing a new design, production of her kit for the Brompton. How- still trying to push the limits. However it is still in ever... to the best of my knowledge, it’s only the developmental stages. available in Japan. If you can read Japanese, do have a look at: If you are a serious potential buyer and would http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~cct41390/bicycle/kit/ like a list of what is available, please e-mail me <[email protected]> directly. I’ll let you know what is available, and connect you to Georgi if you’re interested in pursuing it further. This is a one-time only chance to acquire some HPV history and get a head start in building your own competitive racer!” BHPC AGM Although this is still several months away, it has been deemed wise to mention it now, as it’s unlikely there’ll be another Newsletter out before then. Especially as we’re going on our holidays. So any AGM-ular business should be addressed to Mr. Secretary Donaldson sooner rather than later. Moreover, Mike Burrows’ proposal, namely that we try to make the AGM more of a public exhibition / try-out / general fun event is going ahead, though to the best of my knowledge the racing will still count for the Championships. Speed Records A-Go-Go Stop Press! I’ve heard a rumour to the effect Media interest in the Jason Queally 200m that it can be obtained via Bikefix.