2007 Florida Challenge HPRA HPV Racing Pictures
Pictures by Chris and Dora Cortez |
| On Friday some of the racers
went to the crit track at Brian Piccolo park to loosen up and check out
the track. Here, Canadian Jim Iwascow takes a few laps. |
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Chris tries out a Bacchetta
Carbon Aero |
| Bacchetta brought some of
their new bikes to show. Here's the new LWB model. |
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Chris's Gritters lowracer compared to the new Bacchetta
LWB bike. |
| Dora tries the carbon Aero, while Garrie Hill rides the
Bacchetta LWB. |
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Dora on the Aero. |
| Garrie on the LWB |
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Jay Copp rides his Aero with a
neck brace. He raced after having neck surgery the previous week. |
| Dora and Chris, both on lowracers this year |
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Garrie Hill stokes the Barcroft tandem, while Bill Cook
captains. Check out the couplers in he frame. This tandem comes apart
and will fit in a car trunk. |
| More test riding |
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Bill Cook, with his reporter friend on the tandem. |
| Dora tries the LWB |
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Bill Cook on the Barcroft
Oregon FWD lowracer. This year the drivetrain is greatly simplified. |
| Here's a shot of the drivetrain. Note the floating return idler, which
deflects when the tire
hits the chain. This provides a better turning radius without derailing. |
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Early Saturday morning the
racers all show up at the track and get ready to race.
Rich gets ready for a couple laps in the
GeeBee Mini-Moby. |
| Jay Hoover warms up on his
coroplast faired Reynolds recumbent. |
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Terry Hayes warms up on
Richard's tailboxed Catrike. |
| Dora does some warmup laps on the Earthcycles Sunset. |
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John Schlitter on his Carbon Aero |
| Mike Kring warms up on his
Catrike. |
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Peggy Kring |
| Sergio
Agramonte warms up on his tailboxed Zox. |
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Jose
Berrizbeita |
| John Schlitter |
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Racers line up for the the
stock class last man out race. |
| Go! |
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Warren tries hard not to be the last man. |
| John powers up and beats
Warren in a sprint to the finish. |
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Faired and trike class
racers prepare for the LMO |
| Chris puts on his race
face. |
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Chris and Jose dual it
out. Chris bests Jose, but he doesn't realize he is out and ends up
running Chris off the track. |
| Racers line up for the sprints. |
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Stock and Women racers line up
for the 30 minute lap race |
| Racers wait patiently for the
timing system to be started. |
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Ok, Warren is done
setting up the timing system and is ready to race. |
| Racers ready? Go!
Half of the bikes racing were Bacchetta
highracers. |
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John and Warren take the lead and lap the rest of the
competitors, while taking turns drafting each other. |
Felipe Carpio on what looks
like an Actionbent highracer with USS.
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Jorge
Mejias? |
| Dora takes the corner on the
Sunset |
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Sara Kay Carrell |
| Steve McDonald paces Ken Evans |
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Another Bacchetta rider |
| Jay Copp |
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Reg Rodaro on his MWB homebuilt bike. |
| Stephan Hofft rides his
homebuilt lowracer with super high BB and super huge chainring. |
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Steve McDonald passes Ken
Evans |
| Reg Rodaro |
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Sara Kay |
| Warren and John |
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Dora |
| Jay Copp passes other
Bacchetta racers |
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Chuck Cantieny on his
Bacchetta Ergotron 4000
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Steve Hoeft on his homebuilt
lowracer with ultrahighBB and GigantorRing (tm).
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John S. hits the corner at
high speed. |
| Jorge? |
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Felipe takes the corner.
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| Sara Kay on her Bacchetta Aero |
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Steve Copp banks into the
corner. |
| Chuck Cantieny |
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Reg exits the corner while a
group of drafter Bacchettas near the apex. |
| Sara Kay in the corner |
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John gets some draft from
Warren |
| More drafting |
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Bacchettas drafting toward the
end of the stock race |
| The new Barcroft Oregon
lowracer |
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The compact Barcroft Columbia
tandem |
| Faired class racewrs line up
for the lap race. |
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Down low is Chris Cortez, up
and to the right is Jim Iwascow |
| More of the same theme... |
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Chris drafts Jay Hoover, while
Rich Meyers passes on the outside in his 'liner. |
| Garrie Hill crises by in Too
Strange, follwed by Mike Kring. |
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A nice shot of the
straightaway |
| Terry Hayes |
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Jay Hoover |
| Robin Hayes |
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Jay blasts
by in a coroplastic blur. |
| Garrie |
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Robin and Jim |
| Rich |
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Jay again |
| Jim again |
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Jose, Chris & Terry |
| Mike |
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Garrie & Robin |
| Later that evening we all
gathered at a Cuban restaurant for dinner and conversation. |
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Chris is on the right in
the back. |
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table, L to R are Sara Kay, John S., Garrie, and Dana Barlow. |
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L to R are Jay Hoover,
Warren, Shari Bernhard, and Reg Rodaro |
| Kim, Shari's hubby,
Chet's wife & Chet Fromm. |
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That's Bill Cook in eye
popping green. |
| Gary present a picture of
penny farthing bicycles to Sharie. |
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Sunday at the velodrome,
another beautiful day. Warren
prepares to do a 1K sprint. |
| Yes, grimacing does make you
go faster. Warren learned that from Sean Costin... |
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Bill Cook on the Oregon |
| Bill again, 2nd lap |
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Bill on lap the last lap. |
| Trike races were held on the
small flat oval inside the velodrome. |
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Go speed racer. |
| The trikes had a tough time on
the highly banked corners of the velodrome, and the tight corners made
it more fun at trike speeds. |
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Mike Kring passes on the
outside. |
| Ah. Florida. I can smell the
ocean and sun tan lotion just looking at the picture... |
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