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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
A very slippery frontal area though. I guess their figures spoke for themselves...
Mike Burrows washed my shorts once.
(the two sentences are unrelated)
Guy Martin
- Thread starter HF2300
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A very slippery frontal area though. I guess their figures spoke for themselves...
Mike Burrows washed my shorts once.
(the two sentences are unrelated)
[QUOTE 3348768, member: 9609"]20 minutes to repair a puncture - a whole team of experts 20 minutes to repair a puncture - that's like a third of an hour to put a different wheel on ....
20 minutes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]
In a faired recumbent with a monocoque chassis it is not that easy.....
20 minutes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]
In a faired recumbent with a monocoque chassis it is not that easy.....
riggsbie
Coffee and Recumbent Trikes.......
- Location
- Jan Juc, Victoria, Australia
Can someone BitTorrent it please........for us poor souls who live overseas.....
The_Cycling_Scientist
Über Member
- Location
- Cambridge
Watched his Spitfire one and have this on record as I was at work.. (still am now **Yawn**) so I will be watching later this evening (after my sleep!) I am rather looking forward to watching it! Little things like that are going to get me though this week 
Globalti
Legendary Member
It was made for TV, wasn't it! Proper tandem wouldn't have worked so well visually although I bet it would have been more streamlined.
I think that in some ways this was a more cooperative effort because of the design due to the length of the challenge
If simple streamlining was the way forwards then the present Hour Holder is Project Cleo who use this format:
In "back to back tandems " the communication and relationship between the pilot and stoker is definitely less intimate and often remote, teher is also the point where the pilot does all the work of steering and guidance whilst the stoker just provides power
With this design they were equals
Secondly the cooling is an issue. The simple vent cooled both. In a back to back design the pilot would have been cooled, but blocked the cool air from the stoker. Without a second intake the stoker would overheat, and a second intake in a position where the stoker would be cooled would increase drag
If simple streamlining was the way forwards then the present Hour Holder is Project Cleo who use this format:
In "back to back tandems " the communication and relationship between the pilot and stoker is definitely less intimate and often remote, teher is also the point where the pilot does all the work of steering and guidance whilst the stoker just provides power
With this design they were equals
Secondly the cooling is an issue. The simple vent cooled both. In a back to back design the pilot would have been cooled, but blocked the cool air from the stoker. Without a second intake the stoker would overheat, and a second intake in a position where the stoker would be cooled would increase drag
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
The Oxford English Dictionary says
Definition of tandem in English:
tandem
Line breaks: tan¦dem
bicycle with seats and pedals for two riders, one behind the other
Having two things arranged one in front of the other:
As they offset the seats so Guy was slightly (30cm ish) behind Jason , its down to debate as to "one behind each other" as the dictionary does not say they need to be "in Line"
If you were in a race, and you went over the line a tyres width in front of your competitor , the looser would be classed as being behind you , although they are actually almost at the side of you.
Definition of tandem in English:
tandem
Line breaks: tan¦dem
bicycle with seats and pedals for two riders, one behind the other
Having two things arranged one in front of the other:
As they offset the seats so Guy was slightly (30cm ish) behind Jason , its down to debate as to "one behind each other" as the dictionary does not say they need to be "in Line"
If you were in a race, and you went over the line a tyres width in front of your competitor , the looser would be classed as being behind you , although they are actually almost at the side of you.
galaxy
Veteran
- Location
- Middleton On The Hill
If only the TV had more programs like this. Or am I just getting old lol.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
In cycling terms, what they rode was a "sociable tandem" .
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
[QUOTE 3349008, member: 9609"]they woild need to make a better job of the urine problem in that design.[/QUOTE]
I thought that too!
I thought that too!
I know it is rude to cross-post, but.....
On the CTC website there is the suggestion from someone at the event that the puncture repair took so long because of a problem with the axle:
On the CTC website there is the suggestion from someone at the event that the puncture repair took so long because of a problem with the axle:
Elizabethsdad said:
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Very interesting program and a great feat - terrific commitment etc.
Ultimately though I thought it was not comparable to the Americans at all.
In my mind it wasn't a tandem bicycle at all - it was a pedal powered car.
Every credit to them though - horrible environment to spend 24 hours in.
Ultimately though I thought it was not comparable to the Americans at all.
In my mind it wasn't a tandem bicycle at all - it was a pedal powered car.
Every credit to them though - horrible environment to spend 24 hours in.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Loved it.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I like the idea of the fastest pedal car... sounds much more fun!