world human powered speed challenge (in Battle Mountain)

[Opik]

Noticible entry is the sprocket rocket team, a 5 person tandem land rocket

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The World Human Powered Speed Challenge will be held September 8th - 14th, 2019 at Battle Mountain, Nevada for the 20th consecutive year of racing.

SR 305 provides one of the straightest, smoothest and most ideal road surfaces in the world for HPV records. The 4,619ft (1,408m) altitude road provides riders a 5 mile acceleration zone, enabling them to reach their maximum velocity before being timed over a 200 meter distance. The section of the road used for this event was newly refinished in 2009, with a smooth surface specially prepared for human powered vehicle racing by the Nevada Department of Transportation, using a Nevada Department of Tourism Grant from the US government.

Be sure to check the results in Excel format every day:

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Consolidated (all days).


Please note: The WHPSC is adopting an additional safety requirement for all vehicles:

"A retention means sufficient to hold the rider in the vehicle during a 360 degree roll is required, commencing at WHPSC 2019."

While this is not an official IHPVA rule at this time, it is an additional requirement by the WHPSC.
We also encourage teams to include in their design a roll-bar or similar structure to protect the rider in the event of roll-over.

 

[Opik]

and a new world record for woman

https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/2019/09...o4uzw9juF2hW4pFtbDxJYnWaqlkJmaU55qLfHPQhnnUys

Rosa Bas from Delft/Amsterdam broke the long standing world record for women with a run at 75.88 mph or 122.12 kph. Congratulations to Rosa and her team. The team has been focused exclusively on the women’s record for three years, and their efforts paid off tonight

 

[jond]

You forgot to mention the Aussie taufik

 

[McWheels]

For those who wish, Herr Noblesse Proletariat Dr Reverend Larrington is keeping an Automatic Diary of his presence there.

My favourite quote ref the enourmous rocket: "Their speed of 52.13 mph was perhaps a little disappointing, but apparently captain Chris DeMarchi complained of too much chat between the riders at the expense of power output, and more Discipline will be applied tomorrow."

https://automatic-diary.blogspot.co...IYK2OTlJYj7Wh9fg7zrdQ5-AVzvCTghBohl81VRU5okvo

 

[jond]

Sadly Adam the Aussie stacked and won’t be continuing.

 

[Opik]

So Ollie discusses the Battle Mountain

 

[bladderhead]

Do they have to do the course one way and then turn round and do it the other way? Turning that long tube thing round must be fun.

 

[benphyr]

Nah, they just hit rewind.

 

[DavidCH]

Entombed in a shell with just a little monitor to see where he is going and doing +80kph and sweating profusely... let's hope he doesnt get a short.

 

[benphyr]

And he/she gets to share that shell with the other rider back and forth to share a sweating coffin. Records are good and all but that doesn't sound near as fun as riding around and enjoying the SEEnery whiz by on a Cruzbike. (My view of the speeding sweat coffin tinted by jealousy of 5 minutes at 400 watts followed by 1 minute of 600 watts.)

 

[McWheels]

Thing is, one can describe air travel this way. Why would you choose to be fired from the ground at 500 mph in a metal tube filled with the farts of 100 people you don't know?

We could talk about submariners too, but this isn't the place

 

[bladderhead]

Try the Central Line in the rush hour.