Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:43 am
Always a possibility !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby DentedHead » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:05 am
Is he able to join, and share mine?
Dent.
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:14 am
JP (Vortex) and Ross (performer)....
JP has really short legs.....had to reduce the boom length by almost 5 inches and removed a load of chain......the Vortex looks really weird !
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Velorossi » Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:11 pm
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:28 pm
Wish us luck !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby bradwoodbr » Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:52 pm
To the Magnificent 9 ... GOOD LUCK!!Riggsbie wrote:We are now a team of 9.....
Wish us luck !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Bartek » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:14 pm
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:09 pm
In the end we fielded a team of 10 recumbents.....
Here are some pictures of the collection of machines (three of them belonged to me)....
Everyone went really well and I do not think anyone was passed by a DF ! The wind was strong in places.
I managed an overall average on 36.2kph in the Mango with race hood, I have not ridden for 4 weeks due to crappy back and heavily sprained ankle over the last week and my heart rate was higher than normal by some margin.....but I was happy nonetheless........and broke the 40 kph speed limit quite a bit, think I Vmaxed at 47.5 kph.....
Velorossi was flying on his performer (with tailbox) and managed 36kph averages on his first few laps....not sure if he managed to sustain it over the 6 laps we all seemed to complete.....
My friend JP was scorching along on my Vortex and was averaging 32kph and the furthest he had been on my Vortex was about 500m before the event....he does a lot of MTBing so has huge legs but not 'bent legs and he did notice some unusual leg muscles working hard.....
The other guys all went well and we were probably a bit too serious as the other teams were having fun rides instead of racing.....
Some very random riding by many.....if they were on real roads a lot of the cyclist would be dead
Good day out.....I'll add my Garmin link after I upload and then tomorrow will look at the GoPro video......
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:12 pm
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Aushiker » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:26 pm
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby jaffaman » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:45 pm
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:56 pm
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/271564658" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Weird, only 46.1 kph logged as maximum speed, 47.5 kph observed whilst riding.....and on the upload to Strava only 44 kph...
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Velorossi » Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:35 pm
Yeah my pace did drop off a little from the goal 36km/h average over the entire 6 laps, was great to pull out a huge lead for the first 2 laps before changeover though... empty track was sweet! My second session dropped to 35.5km/h and the final session was a very windy and traffic heavy 34.5km/h average (topped out for a max 45km/h at some point). Was a great experience (my first event) and definitely worth doing again. Next year guys we might have to split into 2 recumbent teams and really get a hustle on for the full 2 hours each rider?
Well done guys.
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:38 am
When using it you could hear it beeping and see the red light when it was recording, when I got home I got the dreaded "SD card not formatted" message <eek>
Brought the SD card to work and my laptop gave the same error message (both PCs running Win XP).......as a last ditched attempt plugged my SD card in JP's laptop (Win7) and bingo it works......phew !!
So 8Gb of video.....some of the video is pretty bouncy and a little close scything through the traffic......
I'll see if I can edit it down a bit and then it'll take about a week to upload to Youtube with our slow ADSL we have in Jan Juc.......
That is all !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby John Lewis » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:03 am
Thanks for the photos. Looking forward to a bit of video.
John
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby stevenurseau » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:39 pm
Here is the link http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=313 ... 82f0febf69" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Also my blog with more photos and write up. http://modularbikes.blogspot.com.au/201 ... -2013.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thanks to all the riders, a great day had by all. Maybe we'll be a bit more forthright with the team name next year!
Recumbent Ramblers?
Feet Forward Faster?
Regards
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Roinik » Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:34 am
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:52 pm
Deep down we knew that we had won !
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:18 am
http://youtu.be/pHiWZmZSZgU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's taking an age to upload, good old Aussie internet
It shows the amount of traffic we had and the random nature of the other cyclists who were riding for fun......so managing an average of 36.2 kph over 36km/6 laps (1 hour in total) was pretty good !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:49 am
Good effort boys !!
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby burnt » Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:06 pm
I just got one of these as a retirement present, I've mounted mine same position you have yours (and Paul M)-how is the visibility when your travelling?Had a bit of a nightmare and thought I had no video from the GoPro3
Any other tips for video excellence
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Re: Recumbent Team for Lake Wendouree Classic,
Postby Riggsbie » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:46 pm
Going to try some vacuum mounts next !
My GoPro is directly in my line of sight but you kind of look past it after a while......you look at your nose every waking moment yet you don't notice it !!
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