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2005 World Human Powered Speed Challenge |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
The long flat road,
otherwise known as Nevada SR305, as viewed from the start of the 200
meter traps. |
| Charlie Ollinger works on the
M5 lowracer in the M5 #8 fairing. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
The Coslinger drivetrain has
been continually revised by both Thom Ollinger and Sean Costin, since
the bike was built 5 years ago. It is now a very efficient and
smooth running system. |
| Warren Beauchamp works on the
body of the Cuda-W in the Super-8 parking lot.
Almost every team spent considerable time
fixing scrapes and performing other bodywork to get the speedbikes as
smooth as possible.
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Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
A mountain bike looms
conspicuously over the Cuda-W and Coslinger Special. In the background,
Chris Broome looks for vehicles to tech-inspect. |
| Chris finds an un-inspected,
though freshly painted Cuda-W, and gives it a clean bill of
health. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Damjan Zabovnik's Eivie
speedbike drivetrain is very simple and efficient, using only a monster
chainring and 5 or so gears. The extremely high gearing makes it a bit
difficult to get started, but Damjan (usually) makes it look easy,
even though he's laying on his back and facing backwards. |
| Damjan breathes through a hose
that gathers air in front of the front wheel fairing, goes through the
frame, into another hose, and then attaches to a valved
mouthpiece.
Here, Damjan works on the front wheel of
titanium framed speedbike.
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Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Eivie was covered in strips of
plastic for the first few days, until Damjan was convinced he could make
runs without getting the fairing scraped up. |
| More work in the parking
lot. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Steve Nash (in the hat), Hans
Van Vugt, and Ellen (in the bike).
This new Varna body was built by Steve
just in time for this year's event, and was still being tweaked, sanded
, and painted as the week went on.
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| Ellen fits! Last year's model
was very tight for Ellen. This year modifications were made to ensure
she fit properly, and to further fair the wheels.
After WHPSC2005 this body was shipped to
Holland. Ellen and Hans are building a new frame for it, and it will be
used for Ellen to set long distance records in Europe.
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Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Eric Ware prepares to go for a
test ride in Brad Teubner's Orange Varna. His brother and teammate
prepares to go chase Eric. |
| Larry Lem scoots around the
Battle Mountain Civic Center on his adult sized Krazy Kar. This thing
had a lot of mass, so course corrections took a good tug and a some
respect to prevent ripping your arm out of it's socket. It was great
fun! |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
The Varnowski II in it's
pre-painted state site in front of the Cuda-W in it's partially painted
state. |
| Warren had to replace a bolt
that had broken off at the front bulkhead. It's a bit hard to see in
this picture, but there's a body hanging out of that bike, or some legs
anyway...
This picture shows how narrow the bike is
in front.
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Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Here's another shot of the
Cuda-W with Warren inside. |
| Raymond Gage arrived and
proceeded to spread the parts that needed to be assembled to build his
Orion speedtrike all over the work area by the Motel. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Raymond and Alex unpack the
glue and begin to reinforce one of the fairings halves. |
| Arne Hodalic and Milovan, the two Slovenian journalists,
rented a small plane to fly up and down SR 305 during the races and take
pictures and video. The plane flew by a couple times and then was seen
no more. Later they told us that after a couple passes the pilot said
"Uh-oh". The plane had overheated, so they made a bee line for
the Battle Mountain airport and were able to make a safe landing. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Sunsets were spectacular.
Every night. |
| Here's the drivetrain of the
FWD rear-steer Tri-rush delta trike. Very simple, very efficient. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Scenes from the parking lot,
take 12
Foreground: Tri-rush
Midground: Eivie
Background: Easy Racers van
Cue the miniature poodle. Yap Yap. Nice
doggy.
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| Friday was drag race day.
Racers gathered on Muleshoe for the elimination rounds. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Dusty Wood on his TourEasy
(L), races Robert Barnett on his hand and foot powered delta trike. |
| Roadie powerhouse and Varna
team member Matt Chater annihilates the Cal Poly streamliner in the 1/8
mile drag. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Saturday was cold and cloudy
for the 1 hour criterion. Here, racers line up at the start/finish
line. |
| The Cal-Poly streamliner
performed admirably on the short track, and had a respectable showing
despite crashing and burning (ok, not so much burning). |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
Dusty Wood cruises by on the
straightaway. |
| Larry Lem races by on his
ultra-low racer. |
Picture by Brad Teubner |
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Burt
Rutan's GlobalLiner makes a 172MPH pass through the timing traps
during a top secret testing session.
(yes it's a joke!) |
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