What The-??? Brad (Biohazard) Graham found this page of "FunnyBikes" on the Zzipper Fairing site: http://zzipper.com/ZZipFunnyBikes.html It's a bunch of exotic rides made using their "Experimenter Kits".These are stock blow-formed Lexan forms which can be used by experimenters. Their main products are blown fairings which come with attachment kits for specific machines. This trike uses a teardrop canopy, which comes in 36" and 29" lengths. If this isn't giving you some ideas, you obviously are at the wrong URL. You were probably looking for Bicarb&Cuspid, the dental hygiene webzine. Don't let the door hit your ass while you're on your way out, loser! |
A Solar Cycle team at Prince Alfred College in South Australia built a hybrid XR2 for competition. In its first race, the Australian World Solar Cycle Challenge 2001, the XR2 took first place in "B-Class" and third place overall. B-Class is a category for unfaired recumbent bicycles (open-bodied, no aerodynamic fairing). Teams that beat the XR2 in overall standings were running fully-faired recumbents ridden by professional cyclists. The riders who piloted the unfaired XR2 to victory were untrained high school cyclists. Average speed over the 1553 km course was 41.1 km/h for the XR2. The two fully-faired recumbents averaged 42.5 and 41.5 km/h respectively over the same course. Solar cycles are raced in various parts of the world, including Australia, Japan, USA, South Africa, and Malaysia. Solar cycles are hybrid vehicles powered by a combination of human power and power from solar cells. Nominated by Jim Wilson More Information, Photos, and Movies at http://rqriley.com/xr2_solar.htm |
There's Always A Contender In The Wings The Coslinger Special Project Shown is the foam form upon which the composite shell of the vehicle is laid. It is designed to be steered through the use of a liquid-crystal video display from a small TV camera in the nose of the streamliner. Doing away with the normal transparent canopy bulge gives aero advantage. Sean Costin and Thom Ollinger's machine ran in last year's Worlds Fastest Bicycle competition, and had an official speed of 62.83mph. The vehicle is still being tweaked, of course. The official project site shows nice step-by-step documentation on the designing and building of the lovely projectile. -Nominated by Jim Wilson |
A recent triumph for Whittingham and Team Varna was in October 2000, at the World's Fastest Bicycle competition. Setting a record speed of 117kmph/73mph, the Varna Mephisto became the fastest HPV on earth. At this year's event, Whittingham in the Varna Diablo, broke his previous record by moving the bar up to 76.61mph. We chose this photo of the older Varna Orpheus to go with this piece, rather than its newer and faster, and equally beautiful machines, because of the beauty of the image itself, with the added juice that the guy standing in the background is the brilliant designer of the machines, Georgi Gorgiev. -Nominated by Jim Wilson |
Other World Bike Records..... Varna, a Canadian company whose main product is hand-cycles, also makes some of the world's fastest and most beautiful foot-powered, streamlined HPVs. Cranked by Sam Whittingham and Paul Buttemer, the Varna machines have been breaking records for years. |
A New World's Record Is Set In Belgium Seraing, an industrial town south-west of Liège, Belgium, is home to an unusual cycle-touring group. They ride tandems all over the place, and are paired up with the stoker being a blind person. How kool is that? By chance, the group learned that there was a standing world record for a fixed tandem team, pedalling on rollers for 24 hours. Set by an English team, the existing record was for an average speed of 45 km/h (27.96 miles per hour). Maria Azzolina (51) a blind woman and Alfred Vanderstukken (62, a retiree), after some experimentation, decided to attempt to break the record. They did it, covering a distance of 1,284 kms at an average speed of 53.511 km/hour (797.841 miles; 34.49 mph). Pretty impressive, eh? This site tells the whole story of the successful attempt, and the ensuing celebration. Nominated by-Jim Wilson |
The Building of a Kustom SteamBike Bob Jorgenson of Memphis built this steam-powered bicycle, based upon one found in a Lindsay Press reprint, titled Motocycles of 1899. The original designer, Stephen Roper (below) was killed at the age of 73, while racing his bike. Mr. Jorgenson has been luckier, so far. -Nominated by John Riley |
Building the Alien-Ray Torrey Nelson has a new site: RadBike.net He's currently running an article on building the Alien-Ray, a phantom restoration of a non-existant Schwinn model. -Nominated by Michael Watson |
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Building the Alien-Ray Torrey Nelson has a new site: RadBike.net He's currently running an article on building the Alien-Ray, a phantom restoration of a non-existant Schwinn model. -Nominated by Michael Watson |
The Building of a Kustom SteamBike Bob Jorgenson of Memphis built this steam-powered bicycle, based upon one found in a Lindsay Press reprint, titled Motocycles of 1899. The original designer, Stephen Roper (below) was killed at the age of 73, while racing his bike. Mr. Jorgenson has been luckier, so far. -Nominated by John Riley |
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A New World's Record Is Set In Belgium Seraing, an industrial town south-west of Liège, Belgium, is home to an unusual cycle-touring group. They ride tandems all over the place, and are paired up with the stoker being a blind person. How kool is that? By chance, the group learned that there was a standing world record for a fixed tandem team, pedalling on rollers for 24 hours. Set by an English team, the existing record was for an average speed of 45 km/h (27.96 miles per hour). Maria Azzolina (51) a blind woman and Alfred Vanderstukken (62, a retiree), after some experimentation, decided to attempt to break the record. They did it, covering a distance of 1,284 kms at an average speed of 53.511 km/hour (797.841 miles; 34.49 mph). Pretty impressive, eh? This site tells the whole story of the successful attempt, and the ensuing celebration. Nominated by-Jim Wilson |
Vanderstukken and Azzolina at the (stationary) finish line. |
Other World Bike Records..... Varna, a Canadian company whose main product is hand-cycles, also makes some of the world's fastest and most beautiful foot-powered, streamlined HPVs. Cranked by Sam Whittingham and Paul Buttemer, the Varna machines have been breaking records for years. |
A recent triumph for Whittingham and Team Varna was in October 2000, at the World's Fastest Bicycle competition. Setting a record speed of 117kmph/73mph, the Varna Mephisto became the fastest HPV on earth. At this year's event, Whittingham in the Varna Diablo, broke his previous record by moving the bar up to 76.61mph. We chose this photo of the older Varna Orpheus to go with this piece, rather than its newer and faster, and equally beautiful machines, because of the beauty of the image itself, with the added juice that the guy standing in the background is the brilliant designer of the machines, Georgi Gorgiev. -Nominated by Jim Wilson |
There's Always A Contender In The Wings The Coslinger Special Project Shown is the foam form upon which the composite shell of the vehicle is laid. It is designed to be steered through the use of a liquid-crystal video display from a small TV camera in the nose of the streamliner. Doing away with the normal transparent canopy bulge gives aero advantage. Sean Costin and Thom Ollinger's machine ran in last year's Worlds Fastest Bicycle competition, and had an official speed of 62.83mph. The vehicle is still being tweaked, of course. The official project site shows nice step-by-step documentation on the designing and building of the lovely projectile. -Nominated by Jim Wilson |
Riley XR2: A Place In The Sun Solar Hybrid XR2 Wins Race. College in South Australia Builds Solar/HPV Hybrid XR2 .... Wins First Place in Category in 2001 Australian World Solar Cycle Challenge. |
A Solar Cycle team at Prince Alfred College in South Australia built a hybrid XR2 for competition. In its first race, the Australian World Solar Cycle Challenge 2001, the XR2 took first place in "B-Class" and third place overall. B-Class is a category for unfaired recumbent bicycles (open-bodied, no aerodynamic fairing). Teams that beat the XR2 in overall standings were running fully-faired recumbents ridden by professional cyclists. The riders who piloted the unfaired XR2 to victory were untrained high school cyclists. Average speed over the 1553 km course was 41.1 km/h for the XR2. The two fully-faired recumbents averaged 42.5 and 41.5 km/h respectively over the same course. Solar cycles are raced in various parts of the world, including Australia, Japan, USA, South Africa, and Malaysia. Solar cycles are hybrid vehicles powered by a combination of human power and power from solar cells. Nominated by Jim Wilson More Information, Photos, and Movies at http://rqriley.com/xr2_solar.htm |
What The-??? Brad (Biohazard) Graham found this page of "FunnyBikes" on the Zzipper Fairing site: http://zzipper.com/ZZipFunnyBikes.html It's a bunch of exotic rides made using their "Experimenter Kits".These are stock blow-formed Lexan forms which can be used by experimenters. Their main products are blown fairings which come with attachment kits for specific machines. This trike uses a teardrop canopy, which comes in 36" and 29" lengths. If this isn't giving you some ideas, you obviously are at the wrong URL. You were probably looking for Bicarb&Cuspid, the dental hygiene webzine. Don't let the door hit your ass while you're on your way out, loser! |