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HPV NEWS Official Newsletter of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association November INDEX 0001 MASTHEAD 0002 PRESIDENT'S CORNER 0003 FROM REPHPV: 20TH ANNUAL IHPSC UPDATE 0004 FOR YOUR INFORMATION 0005 THE COLORADO SPEED CHALLENGE 0006 19TH IHPSC PRACTICAL VEHICLE COMPETITION 0007 FROM THE EDITORS 0008 CALENDAR 0009 READER'S FORUM 0010 CLASSIFIED ADS 0011 MEMBERSHIP (If you downloaded this file: To find your way around, use the search [or find] function on your word processor with the codes supplied to the left of each item.) 0001 The IHPVA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting improvement, innovation and creativity in the design and development of human powered vehicles. International President Paul MacCready President Marti Daily Board of Directors Allan Abbott, Marti Daily, Peter Ernst, Gaylord Hill, Dave Kennedy, Gardner Martin, Dennis Taves, David Gordon Wilson, Chet Kyle Corporate Secretary Adam Englund Treasurers Joe Brooks and Tess Machlan Appointed Vice Presidents AIR - Chris Roper ALL TERRAIN -Matteo Martignoni LAND - Stephen Delaire HYBRID POWER - Theodor Schmidt WATER - Doug Milliken IHPVA P.O. Box 51255 Indianapolis, IN 46251 USA Telephone & Fax 317 - 876 - 9478 Managing Editor Leonard Brunkalla Associate Editors Bill Gaines (For Your Information), Marti Daily (President's Corner), Nancy Sanford (Advertising), Andrew Letton (Calendar). HPV News, a publication for human powered vehicle enthusiasts (ISSN 0898-6894 is distributed to members of the International Human Powered Vehical Association, 1993, International Human Powered Vehicle Association, Incorporated. All rights reserved. HPV News is published 12 times a year by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association, P.O. Box 51255 Indianapolis, IN 46251 USA. Membership: U.S., Canada, Mexico, $25; all other countries, $30 (U.S. funds only). Material in this publication must not be stored in or reproduced in any form without written permission. Request for permission should be directed to: Permissions Manager, HPV News P.O. Box 51255 Indianapolis, IN 46251 USA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display Advertising Rates Ads must be camera ready--B & W photostats, clean, original B & W copy, or original laser prints (no boards). Full page $125.00 8" w x 10 1/2" 2/3 page $100.00 1/2 page $ 75.00 8"w x 5 1/2" 1/3 page $ 65.00 1/4 page $ 45.00 4"w x 5 1/2" Classified Rates For members, personal ads, $5 per insertion; commercial ads, $10 per insertion. For non-members, $20 per insertion. All payments must be made in U.S funds, with check or money orders made out to the IHPVA. The issue date shown is the final one paid for. (month numbers) Make all arrangements for display and classified ads with: IHPVA P.O. Box 51255 Indianapolis, IN 46251 USA Telephone & Fax 317 - 876 - 9478 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write to HPV News! Submit clear, short material with your name, address, and phone/fax numbers. Articles. 700-1400 words that describe an event, an experience, a machine, or a process. FYI. 100 words that describe an item of interest to all members. Calendar items. Who (to contact), what, where, and when with address, phone/fax numbers. Include a short description, or a flyer with map, logo, etc. Letters to the Editor. 200 words expressing a comment, reaction or inquiry. Letters are subject to editing. MY HPV! Send a photo of your HPV, and describe it to us! Language. English is preferred. Others will be translated as well as possible. Forms of submissions. Computer disks: 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 High or Low Density, IBM, MS-DOS, highly recommended. Text in plain ASCII. Graphics in .pcx, .tif, .wmf, .cgm, .gem, .bmp, .sld formats. Hard Copy. Include a printout of everthing on clean, white bond paper for editing and proofreading. Photos and Artwork. Clean and sharp, well identified photographs, numbered, with captions and credits listed on a separate sheet of paper. Electronic Bulletin Boards. Send short (100 lines) pieces to Leonard Brunkalla through the RIME E-Mail network at 1383, or call 1-708-307-9097 (Digital Systems 8N1 9600) and leave a message on the BBS. Send material to: Leonard Brunkalla Managing Editor, HPV News 260 S. Channing St. #1 Elgin, IL 60120 U.S.A. Place a backing material in the envelope to prevent bending, and mark the envelope ``DO NOT FOLD.'' Add all required customs declarations to the envelope before mailing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0002 President's Corner by Marti Daily It seemed like such a good idea at the time! With interest rates at an all-time low, and space in my one-bedroom condominium at a premium, and a larger unit available just down the street, late last spring I put my condo on the market. IHPVA archives and files had spilled into every aspect of my being, and the thought of having a bit more room to spread out into seemed like just the ticket. Of course, it never turns out to be that easy. Not only did IHPVA stuff sprout up in every corner, but my own stuff seemed to spill out everywhere, so just trying to get the place cleaned out enough that prospective buyers might be interested was the first challenge. A storage shed seemed to solve that problem, but juggling packing chores with the end of school, and trying to keep up with IHPVA mail, etc. as well, put me in a game of catch-up that, as it turned out, would last all summer. To make a long story not quite so long, my condo did finally sell, but not in time to snag the larger unit down the street. And not in time to get all the moving chores done over the summer, before school started again. In fact, I'm STILL unpacking, trying to figure out where everything will fit, and the only saving grace is that I have a full-size garage in which boxes can be stacked until I do have time tackle them. Soooooooo if you've been wondering why I'm tardier than usual in responding to your notes, phone calls, or faxes, please be patient. I've cut out all travel (well, almost all) over long weekends this fall in the hopes of someday figuring out what normalcy will be, and hope to reach that stage of caught up sometime in the near future. And meanwhile, if you happen to be passing through Indianapolis, give me a call and you can take a turn at opening the mail or answering the phone! With a little luck, the sofa in the living room will even be available for stopovers. (Both my home phone and the IHPVA phone numbers remain unchanged.) Although I've had remarkable good fortune in recruting volunteers for many of the day-to-day tasks needed to keep the IHPVA running, a couple of one-shot jobs are beginning to crop up that require attention sometime very soon. We need to publish a new catalog and order form, and I'd love to NOT spend my Christmas vacation doing the roster, as I was supposed to have done last year. If you have desktop publishing skills and some spare time, please give me a call and let's discuss how you can help. I do have the existing publications on Macintosh disk somewhere! The 1994 Cycle and Recycle calendars are now in (see the ad elsewhere) in this issue. I was also able to locate a few copies of Roger Yepsen's book, Human Power, reviewed in Human Power vol. 10 #1, which are available for resale at $10 for non-members, $8 for members, while they last. Copies of the proceedings from the HPV Symposium at the University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands are now available to members in North America from the IHPVA: cost is $15 including shipping. (Members outside North America should contact the University directly to obtain a copy.) Text is in English, and photos of each vehicle entered in the 365 days competition is included. Write or fax the IHPVA to order any of these items. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0003 "FROM REHPV: 20th ANNUAL IHPSC UPDATE" The members of Redwood Empire HPV (REHPV) invite you to our city (Eureka) for the 20th annual International Human Powered Speed Championships (IHPSC) in 1994. We have much to offer for all who attend. Eureka is a small city located on the coast of California 281 miles north of San Francisco on Hwy. 101. The city is located on Humboldt Bay, the largest port between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. Our climate is temperate and mild. We plan to have all venues for the competition within a short distance of each other in Eureka. We would like to support human power by making all sites easily accessible by HPVs. Our plan is to hold the event from the 1st through 7th of August, 1994, offering five full days of events, allowing all who participate to enjoy not only those events in which they are competing, but also to be spectators at the other venues. The tentative schedule includes: Land: 200 Meter Sprints 1 Hr. Time Trial Road Races 10 mile Speed Segregated Slalom 1/4 Mile Drags Practical Vehicles All Terrain Vehicles Water: 100 Meter Flying Start Slalom Races 100 Meter Drags Call us if you have suggestions regarding any event and/or if you would like to volunteer to help. We will kickoff the week with a 24 hour distance event on Monday, August 1. The event will be run on a 3/8 mile paved and lighted oval auto race course. Anyone interested in participating in, or helping with this event, should contact Al or Alice Krause, at the number listed below. REHPV Current Contact: Al and Alice Krause 707/443-8261. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0004 FYI-For Your Information by Bill Gaines On the Speed scene: 10 new records set at the Speed Week in Colorado. Hats off to Andrew Letton, George and Carol Leone (especially Carol) for all of their effort to make this event a complete success. While nobody broke the 68.7mph Cheetah record, six went over 60 in the 200m, and records were set/broken in the 1mi, 1km, 500m distances in the men's single, women's single and men's multiple categories. Doug Wright also broke his arm's only record in the 200m The new records are: Record mph kph m/w Rider Designer Vehicle 200 m (arms) 32.41 52.16 m Doug.Wright G. Georgiev Varna Arm 200m multiple 65.03 104.65 m Markam/Whittingham Gardner Martin Double Gold Rush 500 meter 60.45 97.29 m Mike Prime UC Berkeley Z Prime 45.50 73.22 w Shari Rodgers-Kain TRA Blue Sand Worm 500m multiple 64.64 104.02 m Markam/Whittingham Gardner Martin Double Gold Rush 1 kilometer 60.36 97.14 m Markam Gardner Martin Gold Rush 45.32 72.93 w Shari Rodgers-Kain TRA Blue Sand Worm 1km multiple 63.73 102.56 m Markam/Whittingham Gardner Martin Double Gold Rush 1 mile 59.24 95.34 m Paul Buttermer G. Georgiev Varna 44.67 71.88 w Shari Rodgers-Kain TRA Blue Sand Worm On the helmet scene: California, USA Now has a helmet law for those cyclists under the age of 18. Some school districts had already required that students wear a helmet when riding to school. Interbike Las Vegas: This dealer/Industry trade show has grown to be one of the largest show of it's kind. Thanks to Hal Shafer and all the IHPVA volunteers that manned IHPVA booth, and the folks at Linear for donating a Windchetah and a Kingcycle to show the dealers what recumbents are about. The question asked by dealers was not "I can't sell those" or "My customers don't want recumbents", but "I'm not a recumbent dealer, I have a (put here any 3 or 4 recumbent names) in stock and would like to fillout my line". keep your eye on your local shop, he may surprise you. On the products of intrest at the show - 3 gas & 2 electric power assist units, 2 quick release skewer locks, 4 recumbent manufacturers. Among the established manufacturers, Cannondale displayed a long wheel base machine that was built by one of their designers, Shamano products include brake handles that index shift and brake with one handle, and is incorporating the gear position indicators on the balance of thei r mountain bike line. Next month I will describe in more detail some of these and other products. On the Electric scene: Katy Bonallo went 56 miles in 6 hours in David Mischke's electrified Sea Saber in the 1993 Electric Boat Regatta Aug. 17 in Everett Washington, USA. Constants are allowed 125lbs of battery. In the Solar category, utilizing only 40 sq ft of terrestrial-grade solar panels, the NOPEC team completed 40 miles in the 6 hour time period. For more info, contact Andrew Muntz, Snohomish County Public Utility District, POB 1107, Everett Washington, USA 98206. Some late news: 10 mile HPV race, Whittier Grand Prix Results (Oct. 3) 1st Pete Penseyres F40 2nd Tim Brummer F40 3rd Tom Traylor Critical Mass -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0005 TEN WORLD RECORDS SET IN COLORADO! By Carole Leone, Race Organizer Over a dozen human powered speedbikes collectively set 10 world records near Alamosa, Colorado last month. Six vehicles achieved speeds of over 60 mph on the flat, 3 mile course and one rider joined the elite 65+ mph club stoking Gardner Martin's tandem "Double Gold Rush". With an average speed of 54 mph for all faired vehicles, the Colorado Speed Challenge was the fastest self- propelled athletic event ever held on flat ground. Fred Markham from Watsonville, CA and Sam Whittingham from Victoria, British Columbia, broke the 200 meter multiple rider record by over 2 mph. The new record, 65.03 mph, was set late in the evening on the last day of competition. The ride was accomplished in almost dark conditions, with course volunteers shining headlights to illuminate the 200 meter timed distance. The run also broke the multiple rider kilometer (63.73 mph) and 500 meter (64.64 mph) records. The competition, organized by Transportation Research Associates, Inc. (TRA) ran from September 14 through the 17 and featured four days of straight-line attempts for world records. Easy Racers, Inc. offered $2000 in prize money for the fastest single rider of the meet. The event was limited to speedbikes that had already gone over 45 mph. First place went to Sam Whittingham riding "Varna" with a top speed of 63.785 mph. This was the first competition for this just- finished speedbike. Designed and built by George Georgiev of British Columbia, "Varna" featured front wheel drive and steering in a low, compact fairing (approximately 2 feet high). The same bike, with Paul Buttemer of British Columbia supplying the power, also set a new record for the mile at 59.25 mph. Georgiev, called the 'Da Vinci of human power' after this meet, is a sculptor and designer who also created Doug Wright's "Varna Arm", the holder of the flying 200 meters record for arm-powered only. Wright, of Calgary, Canada broke his own record twice during the week, ending with a new record of 32.41 mph. Three new world records for women were also established at the event. Shari Rodgers-Kain, riding the "Blue Sandworm", established speeds for the mile (44.67 mph), kilometer (45.32 mph), and 500 meters (45.50 mph). She became the only woman to hold three world records for human powered vehicles. The Blue Sandworm, a ground- hugging three-wheeled model with a lightweight fairing, was designed and built by Mark Sumich of TRA, a San Luis Obispo nonprofit group that works with advanced composite materials. Rodgers-Kain, from Palo Alto, CA, is a member of the women's U.S. national cycling team and Team Fisons-Ritchey. She most recently placed 14th in this year's Tour de France Feminin. A second woman rider, Debra Grimes riding Cal State Chico's "X-Stream", was second with a speed of 41.68 mph. The event was often hampered by windy conditions and bison on the course. Bison? Not just one or two, but herds of bison would wander on the road and stand around until urged off by race volunteer Jeff Fettig and his jeep. The course, with near-perfect slope, straightness and length, ran through unfenced rangeland belonging to a commercial bison ranch. Although race organizers tried to keep bikes and bison separate, several semi-close encounters of the hooved kind occurred. One bike, a three wheeler, had no problem stopping well ahead of the herd. Another, a two wheeler from Cal State Chico, wasn't so lucky and had to be rescued from the unexpected rendezvous by being pinned against a stopped Ford van. The speedbike pilot, Tim Bingaman, showed remarkable composure in quickly choosing the "sandwich" technique to allow the one observer to catch his vehicle mid-course. Paul Buttemer on his record mile run reported entering a small bison group at 45 mph, threading his way through, and exiting at 55 mph! Other world records set at the competition were the flying kilometer (60.36 mph) by Fred Markham and the flying 500 meters (60.45 mph) set by Mike Prime of Berkeley, CA. Prime also has the new collegiate 200 meter record of 61.24 mph (the collgegiate record is for student-built and student-powered vehicles). None of the speedbikes got close to Chris Huber's human powered speed record of 68.7 mph, set on the same course in September of 1992. The camaraderie between the nine teams was widespread throughout the competition. Each team provided assistance, materials or encouragement to the others, resulting in overall rejoicing when a new record was set. The event could not have been held, nor so many records broken, without the help of the few but dedicated non-contestant volunteers such as Eric Burt (Alamosa co-organizer), Andrew Letton and John David Heinzman (timers), Kent Whiting (starter), Jeff Franks (race steward), Neal Carson, Steve Meyers and Anthony Rosario (anemometer), Jeff Fettig (buffalo wrangler), Phil Swift (one mile observer), Paul Smith and Dennis Northey (barricade monitors), and Kevin Goodfellow (roving volunteer). The Colorado Speed Challenge was organized and operated under the race procedures proposed to the IHPVA this year by a committee chaired by Steven Delaire. These procedural rules required an independent race steward to verify vehicle and course safety, specified course requirements and defined a protest procedure. The result was a four day extremely fast competition that had no high- speed falls, crashes or other accidents. COLORADO SPEED CHALLENGE RESULTS 200 Meters, Legal Wind 1) Sam Whittingham Varna 63.785 mph 2) Fred Markham Gold Rush Colorado 63.513 mph 3) Jeff Solt Z Prime 61.488 mph 4) Mike Prime Z Prime 61.288 mph 5) Paul Swift Moby 61.135 mph 6) Sean Costin Milwaukee Flyer 60.902 mph 7) Tim Bingaman X-Stream 52.516 mph 8) Doug Walters New Attitude 51.739 mph 9) Shari Rodgers-Kain Blue Sandworm 45.541 mph 10) Andres Eulate Blue Sandworm 43.952 mph 11) Debra Grimes X-Stream 41.683 mph 12) Steve Delaire Rotator 007 40.510 mph Doug Wright Varna Arm 32.412 mph Note: This is the first time that 6 riders have gone over 60 mph at one event. Average speed was 54 mph! NEW RECORDS* 1 Mile Paul Buttemer Varna 59.245 mph (old record 54.11 mph) 1 Kilometer Fred Markham Gold Rush Colorado 60.360 mph (old record 55.69 mph) 500 Meters Mike Prime Z Prime 60.451 mph (old record 56.93 mph) Multiple Rider 200 Meters Fred Markham/ Sam Whittingham Double Gold Rush 65.03 mph 1 Kilometer Fred Markham/ Sam Whittingham Double Gold Rush 63.73 mph 500 Meters Fred Markham/ Sam Whittingham Double Gold Rush 64.64 mph 200 Meters, Arm Powered Doug Wright Varna Arm 32.412 mph (old record 30.75 mph) New Women's Records Established By Shari Rodgers-Kain: 1 Mile Shari Rodgers-Kain Blue Sandworm 44.666 mph 1 Kilometer Shari Rodgers-Kain Blue Sandworm 45.315 mph 500 Meters Shari Rodgers-Kain Blue Sandworm 45.498 mph *All records pending IHPVA certification. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0006 19th IHPSC Practical Vehicle Competition (Continued from the October issue of HPV NEWS by Tim Dunsworth As the organizer of the Practical Vehicle competition at the recent 19th IHPSC in Blaine, Minnesota, I have been asked to provide a short report on how it went. Basically, I planned the event by borrowing liberally from the Milwaukee event two years before, with a few ideas from other events and some of my own thrown in. It was set up to have five points scoring parts. On Thursday we had static judging at two stations (one basically for weight and dimensions and the other for operating features and accessories) plus a third station for a timed slalom course and a braking test. On Friday we had a simulated errand run with four laps around a short parking lot course plus stops in between to load and unload some cargo (which was then carried for one lap) and to remove a pedal and a drive wheel and then replace them. The fourth lap included a short off-road excursion over grass, gravel, and a shallow water-filled ditch (and after all the rain we've had this spring and summer in Minnesota we didn't have to go far at all to find one !). The third scoring event was a "competitor's choice" vote for the three vehicles they each thought best exemplified their own notion of what a practical vehicle should be. The remaining points events involved carry-over speed event scoring from the best two of up to five speed events (with higher maximum scores for the 200 meter sprint and the drag race to emphasize those tests a little more heavily and encourage entrants to give them a try). There were 17 starters and 16 finishers riding a range of production or home-built vehicles, bikes (13) or trikes (3), singles (15) or tandems (1), and GT (7) or unfaired (9). The Thursday and Friday events went surprisingly well and nearly on schedule -- amazing for any HPV event, and doubly amazing considering that they were both moved at the last minute to a relatively empty corner of the front parking lot to get away from all the Earth Expo exhibitors who were parking in the back lot where they were supposed to take place. The highlights Thursday were probably the braking test performances of Ray Brick, who managed to get his medium wheelbase recumbent up on just the front wheel, and Bill Gaines, who did two nearly identical sideways slides on his low-slung trike. Noone maxed the static judging, and it was somewhat surprising to me that most people had rather mediocre braking results of .40 to .60 g's (Steve Isles was best at .74 g's), so as a result we had a pretty close and interesting competition right from the start. Friday's commute was a very entertaining event to watch, as it turned out, and we were fortunate to get quite a good crowd of specatators doing just that. Competitors could choose to pass on the pedal and wheel removal if they were willing to accept the time of the slowest finisher for that task, and thanks to his tricky wheel mounting and obstructing luggage Dennis Taves made that a very substantial penalty with a time of 6:40 compared to the fastest finisher's time of 1:25 or the average of about 3:23. Competitors also got penalty seconds for carrying less than the highest competitor's number of water-filled gallon milk jugs, and several competitors managed to carry all 12 of the jugs we provided -- Don Harse by simply loading them into the huge trunk on his trike and Carl Gulbronson by hanging them by straps from each shoulder (that's about 50 pounds on each shoulder, folks !). The highest finishers overall on Friday were Carl Gulbronson, Dave Johnson, and Don Harse. Competitor's choice voting was somewhat incomplete, but there were fairly clear favorites that probably would not have changed much if all the ballots had come in. Most people cast one vote for themselves as expected, but many were modest enough to rate other vehicles higher than their own. The favorites were the slickest of the two wheelers, by Steve Isles and Ray Brick, and the very utilitarian run-about/load-hauler trikes by Don Harse and Linda and Natalie Jayne. The speed event carry-over scoring was dominated by Carl Gulbronson with a perfect 200 points for being the highest practical vehicle finisher in both the 200 meter sprint and the drag race. He was followed by Paul John with 186 pts and Dennis Taves with 172. Most competitors chose to compete in at least three speed events, with ten iron-thighed types doing all five! There was considerable variety in which events ended up contributing points for each entrant, with all five events figuring in the results for at least one of the entrants. When all the scores were finally in (a scant few hours before the awards banquet !), it turned out that there were several possible ways to end up among the top ten finishers, from pure speed to pure utility and rider appeal to strongly balanced results in all five phases of the competition. The finishing order and scores of the medal winners were as listed below: Final Entrant's Vehicle Static Friday Speed Grand Placing Name Number Judging Commute Voting Events Total 1. Steve Isles #114 74 70 100 147 391 2. Carl Gulbronson #135 76 100 0 200 376 3. Paul John #107 80 54 30 186 351 4. Ray Brick #202 74 43 56 160 333 5. Dennis Taves #124 71 44 43 172 330 6. Dave Johnson #233 70 85 22 136 313 7. Don Harse #221 66 84 74 87 311 8. L&N Jayne #220 57 69 57 118 301 9. Mike Conkling #111 67 66 0 166 299 10. Steven Roe #234 66 69 0 153 288 That's pretty much the story of this year's practical vehicle competition. I like to think that it went quite smoothly and was enjoyed by the competitors and spectators alike. Anyone who wants more scoring details can contact me (send a PC diskette if you really want every excrutiating detail), and I can also provide copies of the scoring form and judging guidelines to anyone who wants to adapt some of our event design features for a practical vehicle competition among their own chapter members -- it's really a fun and easy sort of event, and there are countless variations that can be made (like adding a hill climb and/or coast-down hill as the Michigan chapter does, or an on-road phase with scoring stations along the way, or a scavenger hunt like they had at Milwaukee, or spectator's choice voting like they had in Portland, or ....). Tim Dunsworth 4115 Brookside Ave St. Louis Park, MN 55416 (612) 929-7716 evenings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0007 FROM THE EDITORS by Len Brunkalla Well, the first issue of HPV News, from the new production staff, made it out the door with hardly a hitch. A missed mail permit number caused a minor delay, but, as a first time ever collaboration between near strangers, they all did an incredible job. As mentioned in the October "President's Corner", this newsletter will be coming to you monthly. This means, that as you received your October issue in the mail, the November issue was already in production. As you read this, the December issue should already be in the works. We are doing our best to turn around news and information as fast as possible, so if you want to begin your road to fame, send us your ORIGINAL stories, photos, articles, or technical essays. Details on submissions to HPV News, are detailed on the inside front cover of this newsletter. In upcoming issues, we hope to bring you articles on various building techniques such as bonded together frames, bolt together frames, brazing, and welding. Hopefully, it will give some of our inventive members some insight on HPV building within their means and or abilities. We will also try to coerce someone into writing an article revealing the secret methods of organizing a successful ride or outing. Remember, you don't have to be a Richard Ballantine, to be published here, so warm-up those pens, pc's, or typewriters and let us know what you have to say or want to hear. Don't forget about the "My HPV" column. Send in your pictures, articles, and anecdotes about your own HPV experiences, experiments, or adventures. A note from the page layout department: Before HPV NEWS sees print, the entire text, page layout, graphics, and space locations for the photograhs are stored in a computer file. This makes it easy to edit quickly. The masthead (under submissions) lists what sort of graphics formats the layout editor can work with. The masthead, in the same section, also states the kind of text the layout editor recommends: ASCII. Apparently there is some confusion about what constitutes ASCII. Generally, ASCII is an internationally accepted collection of numeric codes that represent specific alphabetic and graphic characters. For example, the number 65 represents the English letter A. Frequent users of Electronic mail, like myself, use ascii extensively. Unfortunately, not all word processing software stores its text in pure ascii form. Each word processor, in order to work efficiently with files it stores, embeds each file with non-ascii codes, e.g., paragraph markers, special font indicators, page breaks, etc. Extracting these needless formating codes are a tedious task, even with the assistance of macros. If you submit material, either by storing it on the recommeded disks and mailing it to Leonard Brunkalla, or (more efficiently and more cheaply) by sending it via electronic mail, please submit the computer text as ascii in its purest form. It is a novice's mistake to believe that software that stores the file as text, stores the file as ascii. Software that will store text files in a useable ascii form are, surprisingly, the inexpensive software packages that cost less than $20.00. These are modified line editors with few format options, but they will serve you better in electronic communications. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0008 CALENDAR JANUARY 1994 (date TBA): Human Powered Ice Races. White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA. 200 m time trial, 100 ft. drag race, and road races. Ice race information/registration packet available upon request from: MnHPVA, 4139 Brookside Ave. S. St. Louis Park, MN 55416 USA MnHPVA Hotline: (612)929-4049 MARCH 1994 4-5: Chicago Area Bicycle Dealer's Consumer Show. Held at O'Hare Expo Center in Rosemont. Should be twice as big as last year . Contact: Len Brunkalla (708)742-5818 18-20: Solar and Electric 500. No longer has Ultralight class, which included Hybrid Pedal/Electric vehicles. Info: (602)953-6672. APRIL 1994 15-17: ASME Collegiate HPV Races: Hosted by University of California, Davis, in conjunction with their annual Picnic Day open house. Fri.: Static Judging, Sat.: 200m Sprints with 1-mile run-up, Sun.: Relay Race of 50 miles for teams of 3 or more riders on a challenging parking lot course. Contact: UCD Engineering Dean's Office, (916)752-0553 MAY 1994 8: The Boulder Kinetic Challenge. A one day kinetic sculpture race. Contact: Rene Doubleday at KBCO, 8975 East Kenyon Ave, Denver, CO 80237 USA (303)694-6300 21-28: American Tour de Sol: Solar and electric vehicle race which this year runs from New York to Philadelphia and includes a class which allows Hybrid Pedal/Electric vehicles. Add a motor to your HPV and join the race. Contact: Nancy Hazard, Northeast Sustainable Energy Assoc.: (413)774-6051 28-30: The World Championship Great Arcata to Ferndale Cross-country Kinetic Sculpture Race. This is the Silver (25th) Anniversary of this, the granddaddy of all Kinetic races -- it has not only the longest name, but the longest, most challenging course of them all. In case of rain, the race will be run in the rain!! Contact: Hobart Brown, P.O. Box 916, Ferndale, CA 95536 USA (707)725-3851 JULY 1994 9-10 (tentative): Midwest HPV Classic. Part of the Midwest HPV Racing Series. Milwaukee, WI, USA. Contact: Dennis Northey at (414)671-4560 15-17: DaVinci Days: The 6th annual celebration of science, art, and technology, including Human Power events, Kid Power design contest, and Kinetic Sculpture Race. Corvallis, OR, USA. Contact: Paul Atwood (503)752-6410 (h) or Raan Young (503)750-2506 (work) 15-17 (?): SEER, Solar Energy Expo and Rally: Alternative energy expo, including electric vehicle races which include a class which allows Hybrid Pedal/Electric vehicles. Willits, CA, USA. Contact: Phil Jorgensen at (707)459-1256, or -0366 FAX 30: Second Kinetic Boat Races at the Reedley River Rampage and Fish Fry held on the Kings River. Open to all unique H.P. boats; normal row boats not allowed. Everything else from hydrofoils to kinetic sculptures welcome. Single and Multiple rider categories. Contact: Chuck Carson, Reedley District Chamber of Commerce, 1613-12th St., Reedley CA 93654 USA (209)638-3548 AUGUST 1994 1-7: 20th International Human Powered Speed Championships, to be held in Eureka (not Yreka) California, USA. Events to include a Relay Race similar to that at the ASME Collegiate Races. All venues within 6.5 miles of host hotel! Contact: Al and Alice Krause, Redwood Empire HPV 2338 18th Street, Eureka, CA 95501 USA Phone: (707)443-8261 26-28: European HPV Championships. In addition to the standard races, the event will include long distance (50 km and 100 km) races and the first ever HP Rail championships. To be held in Laupen, Switzerland, 30 km WSW of Bern. Contact: Jürg Hölzle, Future Bike Spitzackerstrasse 9, CH-4410 Liestal, Switzerland FAX: 33-28-30-39 SEPTEMBER 1994 9-12: INTERBIKE - Bicycle industry trade show. Held at the Anaheim (California) Convention Center (and also on the east coast; see October) Contact: Interbike at (714)722-0990. 10: The Great Kinetic Sculpture Race: Omaha. This event was canceled in 1993, but will rise from the ashes better than ever in 1994. Contact: Evan Mills , POB 3770, Omaha, NE 68103 USA (402)496-1371 17 (tentative): The Annual Newark Day Parade last year had 180 entries and over 75K spectators, making it one of the largest parades in Northern CA. Greg Clark organizes a Unique Bicycle Entry and welcomes all HPVs. BBQ for all riders to follow parade. Contact: Greg Clark 37420-B Cedar Blvd., Newark CA 94560 USA (510)791-1811 OCTOBER 1994 9-11: INTERBIKE - Bicycle industry trade show. Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Contact: Interbike at (714)722-0990. SUMMER 1995 (date TBA) 21st International Human Powered Speed Championships, to be held in The Netherlands. Visualize an entire shipping container of vehicles from North America. Start planning now, and we can make it happen! Additions? Comments? (Criticism?), please call me, or better yet, drop me a post card with all the details so I can include it in next month's issue. I need information on events in other parts -- in particular, details on the Midwest Racing Series, The Swiss Tour de Sol, Japanese Boat Races and Birdman event, the Argus Cycle Tour, and other events outside the U.S. My deadline is the 15th. of each month, so items received after the that will be in the issue two months following. Andrew M. Letton P.O. Box 294, Whitethorn, CA 95589-0294 USA (707)986-7315 (home), (510)449-0426 (work, message) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0009 READER'S FORUM Dear Len, I intend to prepare a study on the impact of elliptical chainrings on power output in the recumbent position, and publish the results in Human Power. I would like the help of someone who has, or who can acquire, equipment to monitor power output. Anyone interested in participating as a subject or as an observer is welcome. Part of the study examines the relationship between seat angle and power output. Previous studies on this subject do not include skilled athletes trained in the recumbent position. My hypothesis is that power output of a fully reclined rider is not significantly less than that of a rider in an upright recumbent position. Sincerely, Sean Costin 9259 S. Hamlin Evergreen Park, IL. 60642 (708)423-5565 NOTE from the editor: Human power enthusiasts worldwide on the FIDONET e-mail network can now send news of the latest events and other items concerning human power directly to HPV NEWS through our new FIDONET representative, TIM LEIER at 1:250/238. The electronic bulletin board, ONE LESS CAR, caters to human power enthusiasts and displays a wealth of related material. ONE LESS CAR can be called directly by modem at 415 480 0147. Leonard Brunkalla, HPV NEWS Managing Editor, is still available on the RIME e-mail network.(see masthead) Currently, we are making efforts to establish an INTERNET connection. The representative needs to be on both INTERNET and RIME, or on INTERNET and FIDONET. Interested parties should contact Leonard Brunkalla. Also, within a few months, the computerized text of HPVNEWS may be available in Spanish, German, Italian, and French, provided there seems sufficient desire for such an option. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0010 CLASSIFIEDS FLYBY STARCRUISER SunTour equipped 12 spd racing tricycle. 20x1 1/8 fronts, 700x20 rear wheel. Has been raced since 1990 in most of the Great Lakes Series events. One of a kind, as is $1000.00 Call Len in Elgin, IL. (708)742-5818 DRAGONFLY III Human Powered Hovercraft. See article in Winter 1990/91 HUMAN POWER. Lack of storage forces sale. $2000.00. Steve Ball 2463 Dulzura Ave. San Diego, CA 92104 U.S.A. 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