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News and Updates
- 10/11/02 - See the reports from Carole Leone on the BM
2003 Volunteers and the BM
2003 donations and cash awards.
- 10/2/03 - Updated the pictures page
with more great images from the event
- 9/22/03 - The HPV Speed Racing is done for another year... SEE
THE RESULTS!
Highlights and lowlights:
1) A new European record was set by the Eivie team (subject to HPVA
approval...).
2) Over $1600 in donated prizes were awarded to the race winners.
3) Matt Weaver was unable to race all week due to development issues
with his computer assisted steering.
4) Sam Whittingham crashed at over 80MPH and walked away unscathed.
5) Several racers including Joe Kochinowski, Fred Markham, Thom
Ollinger, and Rob Wood set personal best speeds.
9/15/03 - Racing is underway! See the Results
pages for updates!
9/09/03 - If anyone on the list would like to donate to a cash prize at the Challenge
this year, please send it to
WHPSC Prize
c/o Shar Peterson
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
Post Office Box 333
Battle Mountain, NV 89820
Mail it so that it gets there before the 19th of September. Make the check
payable to "Carole Leone" so I can cash it there and give the money out at
the Saturday awards party.
9/03/03 - Updated the Race Info page,
the Spectator Info page, and the WHPSC
Home page. Please review these pages for the latest info.
Everything is "Go" for another exciting event!
8/20/03 - Updated the Race
Information page. Racers please read this, and note that this
will be updated again as soon as the updated IHPVA rules (which this
event will be run under) have been created.
8/18/03 - News Statement
In 1993 a small group of people brought high speed human powered vehicles
to a long, straight road in Colorado. The goal was to break the 200 meter
speed record and to see who was fastest. In 2003, we are doing the same
thing, except the speeds have gone from 63 mph to 81 mph!
There won't be prize money this year (.deciMach or other). Instead we are
returning for the same reasons that we did 10 years ago: break records and
go fast. This special gathering of people who love streamlined bicycles
grows bigger every year as more people try to build and/or ride the best
bike of the year.
This year's speed challenge will have all the excitement and fun as before.
What I valued most about the 1993 Colorado Speed Challenge was the opportunity to really get to talk to people I had
only heard of before. And these friendships have lasted through the years.
New and old friendships, seeing new designs and new ideas,
watching incredible speed runs and being part of it all -- THAT's what Battle
Mountain is all about.
The design of the event will change somewhat; how depends on the number of
racers expecting to compete and how many volunteers we have to deploy. I
do not yet know if the entry fee will remain the same. I need to work out
an event budget first.
Please watch this website for more details as they get sorted out.
I'd like to thank the following people so far who have volunteered to help
this year (in alphabetical order)
Tom Amick, Ron Anderson, Barney Bauer, Warren Beauchamp, Chris Broome, Bill Cook, Ray
Elledge, Jason Erickson, Ryan Fowler, Bill Gaines, David Gissen, Paul
Gracey, Jeff Hunn, Al Krause, Alice Krause, Dave Larrington, Larry
Lem, George Leone, Marisa Nelson, Bill Patterson, Nate Saicheck, Brad
Teubner, Scott Wilson, Jonathan Woolrich
If you're planning on coming and would like to be added to the list, please
e-mail me at traslo@fix.net!
Carole Leone, Event Coordinator
8/15/03 - Garrie Hill will not be running the WHPSC this
year, and because of that, there will be no .decimach prize. Carole
Leone and others are working hard to keep the event alive. It will
take some work, as there are many issues that need to be resolved,
but it sounds like the event will be run as scheduled!
8/13/03 - This note was posted by Garrie Hill on 8/13/03:
Due to difficulties, the .deciMach Prize will not be run at Battle Mountain 2003. Please check the
Battle Mountain webpage for further updates.
-Garrie Hill
Also because of this, Ellen Van Der Horst will not be racing this
year, as she was planning to race Garrie's M5 #8 streamliner.
7/30/03 - Updated racer info
and individual racer pages
7/09/03 - A new
forum for the discussion of WHPSC topics in now available.
6/23/03 - Garrie returned from his recent trip to Battle
Mountain with good news. HWY 305 will not be repaved this year, so
it should be smooth sailing again. Also he scoped out the new road
for qualification runs. This is the road to the North of Interstate
80. This road seems much better than last years qualification site,
and has a completely flat 5 mile stretch with no cattle grates or
crossroads. We should be able to close it down for extended periods
of time each morning for qualification runs. Speed potentials on
this road should be very close to those on HWY 305, so anybody who
comes out to this years Battle Mountain event should be able to get
a really good idea of how fast they can go under ideal
conditions.
5/9/03 - Garrie Hill is making at trip to Battle Mountain on
5/11/03 to scope out a new road to use for qualification runs. This
road should be much lower traffic, and have a longer run-up to more
accurately simulate conditions on HWy 305. Garrie also noted that
while NDOT may have approval to repave HWY 305, the people he talked
to recently who would actually be involved in the work said that
there were currently no plans to repave this year.
4/2/03 - Incredibly good news about WHPSC
2003
Sean received a call at work from Shar Peterson of the BM Chamber of
Commerce. It seemed that NDOT has been given approval to repave the
HWY 305 course with a fine asphalt finish and the work is scheduled
to commence this June. This means that the course will be repaved,
and will be quite smooth, but may be a bit softer than previous
years. This is great news because they were planning on repaving
with a chip seal that would have very rough. Thanks to Shar and NDOT
for pulling this off!
3/31/03 - Sean Costin has stepped down as co-organizer of the 2003
WHPSC. Don't worry, he is still contributing the HPV scene as Vice
President of Land for the HPVA.
1/01/03 - 2003 WHPSC web site up and running!
Race organizer Garrie Hill is working hard to hammer together a schedule of events for
what is sure to be an exciting weekend. Once again there will be a full schedule of HPRA races
including circuit races, sprints, and time trials in the vicinity of Battle
Mountain. An alternate high speed location has been located to allow prospective WHPSC
competitors to battle for the rights to race with the world class speed bikes on SR 305.
This years .decimach challenge will be run at this event
again, with the winning speed set
to 82 MPH to adjust the previous 75 MPH goal for the favorable site conditions. The prize
for the .decimach challenge is currently $24,000 USD, or $1000 to the fastest bike if no
one wins it.
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