BHPC racing

[Blodwyn Pig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBofe54FFfA

Slow race 1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgppH4ni5M&t=650s

Slow race 2


Squueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kim]

#SlashWinsLOL

Never would have seen that one coming

Stuart tried his best to give the trophy to someone else, but it didn't work.

[quixoticgeek]

There's a gootube video from GCN at the BHPC racing. So far I've recognised a wild Kim going very quickly.

J

[quixoticgeek]

There's a gootube video from GCN at the BHPC racing. So far I've recognised a wild Kim going very quickly.

Well that was an amusing way to spend 12 minutes.

I do like that quattro velo. Some friends of mine have two of them in their household, and carry their 2 kids. In them. they used to carry all 3 kids, but the big one has got too big and how has his own recumbent. Interesting to see them racing.

Definitely better marketing for the dark side than some of the previous GCN attempts.

J

[Kim]

There's a gootube video from GCN at the BHPC racing. So far I've recognised a wild Kim going very quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWM0CHJeYAI

(click to show/hide)

Not especially quickly.  I'm down on fitness due to spending much of the summer concentrating on an impromptu career in nursing.  By way of perspective, given the speed I was managing I should have been in the bottom half of the fast race - I was in the slow group so that we wouldn't have both people who knew how to operate the timing system in the same race.  Nobody else in the slow group was competitive^[1] - we had a large number of arm-powered riders competing, so pretty much everyone who wasn't on a handcycle or sturdy touring cycle was in the faster group.

Hank caught my wheel fairly quickly after getting stuck behind a mass of tricycles at the start and followed me for two laps, getting the line for the corners.  Then he engaged his pro cyclist legs and shot off along the straight, wobbling like a n00b.  Which was the last I saw of him for most of the race.  He eventually lapped me near the end, and I utterly failed to catch his wheel (he was really going for it, and you don't get much draft off a Nocom).  Shows what real cyclists can do!  I laughed all the way to the finish line.

Interestingly Hank's times in the QV were almost the same as on the Nocom.  There's probably a confidence factor - while the QV corners extremely well, it still handles like a multi-track vehicle, and there's no substitute for familiarity on a lumpy-twisty course like Hillingdon.  Similarly, our usual #2 rider (LeeW OTP) was down to 5th position, as he's just bought a new velomobile.  I expect he'll be up to speed in it for next season.

Getting lapped by Slash is just a law of physics.  You soon get used to it.


_{[1] Not to disparage the handcyclists.  The speeds that some of them achieve are seriously impressive.}

[Kim]

Tech followup video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnqGmCZv5A

[Peter]

Results for the completed 2021 season are now up at: http://www.bhpc.org.uk/results.aspx

I'm still accepting quibbles over Hillingdon at http://forum.bhpc.org.uk/2021-round-12-hillingdon-sunday-17th-october_topic7295.html

Impressive season, Kim  -  well done!

[Mr Larrington]

My grate frend Mr Woolrich reckons that with a head bubble and a fin enclosing the rear wheel, young Liam in the Notso might be able to give Slash a harder time next year, and has the benefit of youth and therefore fearlessness.  I remain unconvinced.  Slash will still be winning when he gets his telegram from Missis Kwin Charlie Wills

[fd3]

If he retires before the sun turns red and swallows the earth/mass climate chaos kills us all (delete as appropriate) we should name the trophy after him.

[Mr Larrington]

(Watches vid)

Professional race?

(Does a roffle)

I put in a brief appearance at 10:08 holding up the Twed in the yellow machine at the start.

[Kim]

Results for the completed 2021 season are now up at: http://www.bhpc.org.uk/results.aspx

I'm still accepting quibbles over Hillingdon at http://forum.bhpc.org.uk/2021-round-12-hillingdon-sunday-17th-october_topic7295.html

Impressive season, Kim  -  well done!

Not really, given that I lost the women's turning-up championship.  (Now holding out for more money, in light of Mr Larrington's comment above.)

[Kim]

If he retires before the sun turns red and swallows the earth/mass climate chaos kills us all (delete as appropriate) we should name the trophy after him.

Slash would outrun the exploding sun.  He'd probably do a lap of the galaxy and rumble up on it from behind.

[fd3]

So, I 2022 is there a race within walking distance of Mordor?

[Kim]

So, I 2022 is there a race within walking distance of Mordor?

2022's season is still a work in progress (these things take time, as they inevitably involve chasing people who are less-than-prompt with email, and some won't take bookings this far in advance).

However, it's pretty safe to assume there won't be an event *in* Birmingham, due to the lack of a suitable venue.  Stourport and Curborough are the closest that we regularly use.  Derby Velodrome might happen at some point (there's budget and enthusiasm, but they're notoriously hard to pin down on dates, and there's always a risk of coronalurgi restrictions) - that's brilliant fun if you can reasonably manage about 18mph.

Watch this space.

[Mr Larrington]

Tech followup video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnqGmCZv5A

Only just noticed that link.  50% of the machines prodded came out of the Sheds of my grate frend Mr Woolrich   I had custody of the Velocino for a while when he was moving house and got some very strange looks when riding it up the Leytonstone High Road.

That Barney: #MediaTart

[Kim]

Tech followup video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnqGmCZv5A

Only just noticed that link.  50% of the machines prodded came out of the Sheds of my grate frend Mr Woolrich   I had custody of the Velocino for a while when he was moving house and got some very strange looks when riding it up the Leytonstone High Road.

I think they like the low-budget sheddi angle.  I know it's bad television but it's conspicuous how much they gloss over the boringly sensible road-going commercial machines that most people ride, even by way of comparison.

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's slightly reminiscent of those Goodwood festivals of Edwardian racing automobiles.

[Mr Larrington]

So, I 2022 is there a race within walking distance of Mordor?

2022's season is still a work in progress (these things take time, as they inevitably involve chasing people who are less-than-prompt with email, and some won't take bookings this far in advance).

However, it's pretty safe to assume there won't be an event *in* Birmingham, due to the lack of a suitable venue.  Stourport and Curborough are the closest that we regularly use.  Derby Velodrome might happen at some point (there's budget and enthusiasm, but they're notoriously hard to pin down on dates, and there's always a risk of coronalurgi restrictions) - that's brilliant fun if you can reasonably manage about 18mph.

Watch this space.

Chairman Al reckons the calendar will be sorted before Missis Kwin appears on the nation's distascopes to wish us awl a vair heppy Christmess, with the likely kickoff being Colchester on the first weekend of April.

[Kim]

And for Middle-Earthians, it looks like we'll be at Stourport in May.

Full calendar under embargo pending confirmation from some of the venues and rigorous elimination of CompSec's assorted typos.

[Beardy]

Will they be going to Bentwater again, or was that a one off for the World Championships?

[Kim]

Betteshanger (AKA Fowlmead)?

Not this season.  I believe there were Issues involving a change of ownership, and the facilities have been a work in progress for a while.  It's a shame, as it's an excellent track for the faster machines and anyone with a love of coal dust or a corner allergy.

Certain members of the committee are making noises about hosting the world championships in 2023 (and certain other members of the committee have made noises about only if we get a new Babbage-engine filled with fresh, less-viscous jam for the timing system), and it's a potential option, along with the excellent Gravesend Cyclopark.

[Mr Larrington]

Will they be going to Bentwater again, or was that a one off for the World Championships?

Bentwaters was a one-off.  I think they've dug some of it up or 5's Daddy has built overpriced starter homes on it or something.  As Kim notes, the next time we get the Worlds it’ll be at TBD, though Gravesend is looking like a distinct possibility.

[Kim]

If we do it at Gravesend, I'm insisting on a freewheeling competition.  With strict rules about how all multi-track vehicles must be accompanied by a rider.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Do you want the rider to ride the vehicle or to run alongside it?

[Kim]

Do you want the rider to ride the vehicle or to run alongside it?

Prior experience suggests that the latter is suboptimal for wheelchair users.