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Battle Mountain Speed Festival |
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Battle Mountain Speed Festival |
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These pages are a compendium of images, messages and descriptions of the Speed Record attempts and achievements at Battle Mountain, in October 2000. The messages were posted by Matt Weaver and Sean Costin to various e-mail lists and to the HPVA. A special thank you goes to Warren Beauchamp for culling many of the messages off e-mail lists as the event took place. All the pictures are provided by Rich Meyers. - Chris Broome, President, HPVA |
| Sam Whittingham cruises in the Varna Mephisto, a bike designed and built by Georgi Georgiev set a 200 Meter Flying start record for single rider human powered vehicles at high altitude. His time was 6.15 seconds (72.74 mph.) The previous World Record was set in September, 1992 by the Dexter-Hysol Cheetah at 6.51 seconds (68.72 mph.) |  |
| Matt Weaver, racing his Kyle Edge camera bike, reported that he had his bike over 80mph, but shut down early due to some wind buffeting and concern over some bridge structures near the timing area. Matt ended up with at time of 6.44 sec (69.46mph), which breaks the previous Cheetah record as well. |  |
| Sean Costin racing in the Coslinger Special, a camera bike built specially for this race, and completed only weeks before. Sean ran the 200 meter trap at 7.12 sec (62.83mph.) |  |
| Andrea Blaseckie rode the Bibet Varna to a new womens record of 54.04 mph. The previous record was 51.84 mph at 8.630 seconds for the 200 meters. |  |
| The Nevada State Police ticket Sam Whittingham for exceeding the 65MPH posted limit in the Varna HPB. Just kidding, we hope. |  |
| Matt Weaver seated in the Kyle Edge. The body shell will be installed before setting off. Note the small video screen and the jet fighter breathing apparatus. Also note the over the shoulder chain line running above the rider to the rear wheel drive. Jeff Caswell steadies the bike. |  |
| Matt Weaver's Kyle Edge streamliner. Matt decided to race this older bike instead of his latest bike, the Virtual Edge, due to misalignment issues that were not correctable before the race. |  |
| The Varna Mephisto drivetrain. Note the extreme crank overlap, very limited steering deflection and carbon fiber disk wheels. |  |
| Matt Weaver's Kyle Edge (black bodyshell) and Virtual Edge (green bodyshell) on display. These bikes are among the first to employ a camera system for vision in record attempts. |  |
A UFO convention ? No, just the fastest bikes in the world, lined up for pictures |
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Videotapes available: Jeff Caswell is now selling VHS videotapes of the Worlds Fastest Bicycle Competition, including footage from the now world-famous Matt-Cam video. Checks for $13.00 US plus $5.00 US shipping and handling should be sent to: Jeffrey James Caswell 4710 Dupont Avenue North Minneapolis, Minnesota 55430-3507 USA Cell: 612-239-0344, Home Office: 612-302-7811 Email: microbike@netzero.net |
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