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Conference noted::bicycle

Title:	Bicycling
Notice:	Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:	JAMIN::WASSER

Created:	Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3214
Total number of notes:	31946

75.0. "DuPont Prize (65mph) won" by EUCLID::PAULHUS () Thu Jun 05 1986 11:00

    
      The DuPont Prize for the first bike to go 65 mph, unassisted, on
    the flat & level, has been won by Gardner Martin's Easy Racer team
    with Fred Markham riding.  The run was on a highway near Mono Lake
    in California near Nevada, at about 8000' altitude.
      I don't know what effect this will have on my effort.  It probably
    means that if any real problems pop up in the next couple of months,
    we'll not go to Expo (August 24 to 31) and spend some more time
    here to "get it right".   Since Paulhus Consulting is financing
    this effort (ie 'Advertising'), we'll get maximum exposure at Expo,
    so we will try to make it.  There was talk of a Regional event at
    Indy in September.  I'll see the head of the Indy Chapter of IHPVA
    at Gear International in Buffalo next weekend and get the latest
    info.
    		Slightly empty feeling  - Chris

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
75.1	bummer	APOLLO::DEHAHN	feel the spin	`Thu Jun 05 1986 15:23`	8
	For your sake, I'm sorry to hear this. I was hoping that you would have a shot at the prize. This challenge has been open for quite a while now. Wasn't the prize $10,000? CdHJ
75.2	They de$erve it!	EUCLID::PAULHUS		`Mon Jun 09 1986 13:03`	7
	The DuPont prize was originally 15K. With interest, it's now up to 18 or 19 K. Gardner Martin, builder of the Easy Racer recumbents, needs the $$ a lot more than I do. I've heard that he lives in an ex-chicken coop. The tow vehicle was a Ford Falcon Ranchero pick-up. Etc, etc. Those guys were SERIOUS! We're just messing around, having fun, in comparison. - Chris
75.3	Gufaw, Gufaw, Guffaawwww !	EUREKA::REG_B		`Tue Jun 17 1986 09:11`	7
	Any idea where they got their 92 tooth chainwheel ? Reg (just curious)
75.4	Unassisted?	SHIVER::JPETERS	John Peters, DTN 266-4391	`Thu Jun 26 1986 09:21`	2
	How does a tow vehicle relate to "unassisted?" John
75.5		SUPER::CONNELL		`Thu Jun 26 1986 09:32`	2
	Maybe to get up to speed??
75.6	Reductio ad absurdum	SHIVER::JPETERS	John Peters, DTN 266-4391	`Thu Jun 26 1986 10:11`	3
	Y' could also go down a hell of a ramp and get clocked at 110 for a few seconds; unassisted should really mean just that, I would think (now watch me catch hell...)
75.7	To tow, or not two too ? That is the absurdium...	EUREKA::REG_B		`Thu Jun 26 1986 13:36`	12
	I think you're joking, but in case someone takes it seriously and/or wants to know, here goes; The tow vehicle (old ford ranchero, I think Chris had said) is the one that tows the trailer that the HPV gets to the place on/in i.e. its their trailerin'_an'_travelin'_around_in vehicle. Reg (92 tooth chainrings ARE available)