november 26, 2005
På äventyr med Greg
Gregs senaste
Ända sedan 17 september 2003 har man kunnat följa Greg Kolodziejzyks äventyr på nätet nästan dagligen. Från början var målet att sätta ett trans-Kanada-rekord. Och det var verkligen från början! Ibland tog man sig för huvudet när Greg gjorde verkliga nybörjarfel i byggandet av sina HPVer. Jag tyckte att han kanske kunde läst på lite innan för att slippa uppfinna hjulet på nytt men för kunna göra något eget måste man kanske börja från början och lära sig själv efter hand. Greg började med en trehjulig midjestyrd sak men har nu gått över till en tvåhjulig sak. Just nu försöker Greg slå 24timmars rekordet för HPVer. Det finns en webcam på http://131.204.75.149/view/view.shtml. I skrivande stund är det mörkt och man ser bara några små ljusprickar i mörkret. Följ hans äventyr på http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPVMain.html där han berättar och visar bilder och filmer på sina byggen, tester och rekordförsök. Mycket underhållning lovas. Häng med på Gregs äventyr
Postat av Jan-Inge datum november 26, 2005 09:40 FMuppsnappat på Pythonlistan där Greg också är med!
What a day!!!
Wow - I'm still recovering. An experience of a lifetime.
I'll file a better report when I get back to Calgary, but for now here is
how it all went down:
Our 4 day / 4000 km drive to Opelika, Alabama was apparently a good
incubation environment for the virus that attacked my lungs and throat on
race day. I haven't been sick in over a year, and this one was a wicked
chest cold!
On Thursday we had the track to test out the streamliner, run some tests
and set up the timing equipment, etc. It was prety windy and I couldn't
get CriticalPower up to the speed I needed. That, combined with my 5 hours
sleep the previous night due to caughing my lungs out, was the reason I
sat my crew down and told them that I would give it my best try, but that
anything even close to a record was just not going to happen. Everyone
agreed that we should all give it a go nevertheless.
Friday was fairly cold, but the winds were down substantially in the
morning. I figured that I would try as hard as I could to maintain record
speed for as long as possible, and that's how my first hour went. Then it
just continued on for 18 hours!!
I would pull in for pit stops and Rob Hitchcock (HPVA official) would tell
me that I was at record pace and I didn't believe him!
Then I started having some problems. There were three chain derailments
which each caused a crash. By the time my crew realized I wasn't passing
the timing strips on time and found me somewhere on the 2.72 km track,
many precious minutes had passed by. These costly stops added up, and by
hour 22 I was off record pace. Then the remote steering push rod weld
broke and I crashed - race over. The weld broke due to all of the left
side crashes which land directly on the swing arm.
304 laps * the estimated lap distance of 2.725 km = 828.4 km in 20 hours,
22 minutes.
However, according to the actual, but unofficial distance as measure by my
SRM meter, each lap was 2.845 km, so I actually travelled 864.8 km, at
42.5 kph average speed which would have been 1020 km total for 24 hours if
I could have finished the last 3.5 hours. And that would definately have
been in record territory.
If not for the enthusiasm, support and encouragment from my crew: Rob
Hitchcock (HPVA), Ben Eadie, my wife Helen, Bob "maximus" Atkins (HPVA),
Buzz Powell, this amazing day would not have happened. I thank each of
them from the bottom of my heart!!
If you asked me last night if I wanted to try it again, I would have said
no-way! But time has this way of eracing the unpleasant memories and
replacing them with the happy details. Just this morning I was pondering
ways of improving CritialPower...
I'll post some photos later.
Cheers!
Greg K
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