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6/21/2013 to 6/23/2013     HPV World Championships - Leer, Germany Update
Location: Leer, Germany
Description:
Premier world championship event with events for recumbents, human powered boats, standard bicycles and skaters. more info: http://www.bhpc.org.uk/Data/Sites/1/Uploads/internet_flyer_hpv_wm.pdf
 
Friday June 21, 2013:  
Parade
 
Saturday June 22, 2013:  
All-day exposition.
200-meter flying start (land vehicles) 
100-meter race (water vehicles), Obstacle race, 10 km water race, Hour Race for Recumbents and Streamliners,
standard bicycle race,
skating race
 
Sunday June 23, 2013
Youth race,
100 km race for recumbents
Water shalom
Diasability Race
5km skating race
Folding / Cargo bike race
10 km skating race
Parade / Closing Ceremony
 
6/30/2013     Portland, Indiana - Colavita - Zipp 20 mile time trial Update
Location: Portland, Indian
Description:

Sunday June 30, 2013 Event, the 7th stop on the Colavita-Zipp time trial series. Out and back time trial that is a true 20-mile length. There is a quick switchback leaving town, the but the rest of the way is only two left-hand turns on the way out, then a 180 degree turnaround at the 10-mile point, then two right-hand turns on the way back, along with the switchback entering town.

Map: http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/174111132

more info, registration: midwesttimetrial.com

 
7/13/2013     Northbrook 100 HPRA Races Update
Location: Northbrook, IL
Description:

Please join us for the Northbrook Velodrome HPRA HPV and recumbent bicycle races. Fun and fast Races for Streamlined, stock recumbents and trikes. 

Click here for more info

 
7/14/2013     Kenosha Velodrome races Update
Location: Kenosha, WI
Description:

Please join us for the WISIL Cheedar Cheese Challenge at the Kenosha, WI velodrome. Exciting races for all.

Click here for more details

 
7/14/2013     Kokomo Indiana - Colavita-Zipp Time Trial X miles Update
Location: Kokomo Indiana
Description:

Time Trial on a new section of highway, before its opened to the public.  A rare opportunity.  More details at www.midwesttimetrial.com  Length of the time trial is not announced yet.

 
7/17/2013 to 7/21/2013     Greene Trails Cycling Classic Update
Location: Fairgrounds Recreation Center 210 Fairgrounds Rd. Xenia, OH 45385
Description:

Come join Greene County Parks & Trails for the 10th anniversary celebration of Greene Trails Cycling Classic. This family-friendly event will feature 5 days of different route with Friday including three different century rides (62-110 miles). There will be food, entertainment and more. Cost is $5-$140 depending on age, residency and number of days participating. Join us for 1 day or all the way up to all 5 days. For more information, please see www.gcparkstrails.com.

 
7/20/2013     St. Mary's Ohio - Colavita-Zipp 20k Time Trial Update
Location: St. Mary's Ohio
Description:

Another excellent Colavita-Zipp event where recumbents are welcomed.

Out and Back Course with only one 180 deg turnaround.  Going out is slightly downhill, and the return is slightly uphill.  It is a fast course.

NOTE:  5 PM EVENING Start time!!!

Note: this course is not too far from the Celina Ohio course around Grand Lake St. Marys, held about two weeks after this TT.  This next course can be ridden for practice.

more info: http://www.midwesttimetrial.com/tt_calendar.html

 
7/26/2013 to 7/28/2013     Dekra Record Weekend Update
Location: Dekra Test Track - Germany
Description:

Streamlined human powered vehicles will attempt to break the One-Hour World Record.  This track has been the site of numerous world records and world bests for the 1-hour, 12-hour and 24-hour distances, and the 200-meter low-atltiude records.  more info: http://www.hpv.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174:termin-fuer-stundenrekord-versuche&catid=34:rekord-ticker&Itemid=191#englisch

 
7/28/2013     Black Bear Century Update
Location: Grayling, MI to Oscoda, MI
Description:

An electronically timed 100-mile event, not technically a race, but a Tour.  Recumbents and streamlined human powered vehicles welcome to compete against a group of 250 to 300 upright bicyclists.  Tandems welcome.  Register on Active.com starting January 1.  Look for updates on Facebook.com under Black Bear Bicycle Tour.  New website will be going live soon blackbearbicycletour.com

Recumbents have done exceptionally well at this event in the past - winning age group categories and the event overall multiple times.  The course is one-way with a shuttle bus to return racers to the start line.  Its held in conjunction with North America's largest canoe race between the same two points.  The course has 3 big climbs about 30, 70 and 80 miles into the course, but overwise it is downhill overall and usually somewhat with a tailwind.

http://www.blackbearbicycletour.com

 
8/11/2013     Celina, Ohio - Colavita-Zipp 24.6 mile Time Trial Update
Location: Celina, Ohio
Description:

This is a super-fast flat course around a lake.  It was the site of last year's Recumbent Challenge contested by about 15 recumbents.  The organizers of the Colavita-Zipp series do a first-class professional job with a starting ramp, electronic timing and plenty of course marshalls.  Expect a field of about 100 plus upright racers.  The course goes clockwise around Grand Lake and passes through the town of St. Mary's along the route.

Address: LAKESHORE PARK, CORNER OF ST RT 127 AND LAKESHORE DRIVE, CELINA, OHIO

Registration, maps, more info: http://www.midwesttimetrial.com/

 
9/7/2013 to 9/8/2013     HAWKEYE DOWNS HPRA WEEKEND Update
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description:

Recumbent and HPV and trike racing at the Hawkeye Downs .5 mile oval. Plenty of racing, fun, and Mary's bakery goods.

Saturday September 7th, 2013
8:00am track opens
8:00-12:00 HPRA race registration
12:30 Trike/velomobile races, Inner horseshoe
1:30 All faired classes 25 Lap race, 1/2 mile oval.
2:30 All unfaired classes 1 hour race, 1/2 mile oval.
4:00 All classes 1 lap flying TT, 1/2 mile oval

We usually go out to Perkin's resturaunt Saturday night to BS and eat after the races. 
 
Sunday September 8th
7:30 track opens/registration for stragglers
8:00 All faired classes 1 hour race, 1/2 mile oval
9:30 All unfaired classes, Outer horseshoe lap race
10:30 All classes 3/4 mile standing start drag race, 1/4 mile oval, 1/2mile oval.
12:00 Awards/all events finished by 12:00
 
Event Fees/Awards
$20 per day or $35 for the weekend
Cash prizes. More at: http://midwesthpv.blogspot.com/
 
9/7/2013 to 9/7/2013     Michigan Recumbent Rally - West Update
Location: Western Michigan University - Parkview Campus - Kalamazoo
Description:

Organizer: Paul Pancella Paul.Pancella@WMich.edu

This informal event is free and open to the public, drop in any time between 10 and 2:30. Enthusiasts are welcome, along with anyone who is curious about these vehicles.  Hard to find in bike shops, this event will feature a variety of recumbent pedal-powered machines, most available for test rides on the low-traffic campus road network.  If you are a recumbent owner in the area, please come on by to share your experiences.  We'll be on the East parking lot of the Engineering school, enter at Parkview and Drake.  Event will go on rain or shine, cover is available in nearby parking structure.

 
9/9/2013 to 9/14/2013     2013 WHPSC Update
Location: Battle Mountain, NV USA
Description:

2013 World Human Powered Speed Challenge at Battle Mountain, Nevada

During the week of September 9th through September 14th 2013, cyclists from around the world will gather on SR305 outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada for the 14th consecutive year of the fastest human powered bicycle racing in the world, on what is arguably the straightest, flattest, and smoothest road surface in the world.

More Info Here

 

 

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