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Pictures
and Words by Warren "Shrimp Boat1" Beauchamp
& Dave "FLJS" Larrington |
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Even though the forecast
called for rain and cold, the day turned out well.
Racers and their machines were scattered about the
parking lot, and racers were busy preparing for the
qualification runs. Here the Easy Racers TriRush sits
waiting for last minute check over. This bike was
rebuilt for 2005 and is now about 20 lbs lighter. |
| Left to right: Robert
Barnett, Scott Wilson and Craig Johnson at the start of
the qualifying course. In the foreground are
Robert's "Alligator" linear-drive trike and the top of
the Varna Diablo's fairing. |
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Front-end detail of the
Orange - a Varna-bodied delta trike built by Brad
Teubner and ridden by Eric Ware. |
| Left to right, the Varna
II team works to get the proper tire clearances on their
very tight fitting wheel fairings, The Cuda-W awaits
more work, and the Coslinger II peeks out behind the
Cuda-W. In The background Steve Nash works on the latest
Varnowski. |
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Sean Costin and Larry
Lem work on the Coslinger to get it ready to race. |
| The WHPSC2005 racers,
organizers, and volunteers gather for the racers
meeting. Recognize anyone? |
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Sean Costin performs
some last minute ministrations to the Coslinger. Sean
had some issues with seeing the road when he used his
motorcycle helmet, so he borrowed a BMX helmet, but he
flatted out about 1.5 miles down the course. |
| At the race start area,
Lisa Vetterlein is on her trainer warming up and is
psyched for the run down SR 305. |
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Damjan Zabovnik warms up in the very tiny Eivie II. |
| Charlie Ollinger hops
off his training Bike by the M5 #8, which sits on it's
cradle, while the newly painted Cuda-W leans up against
the Varna Truck. I
was not able to go much over 20MPH in the Cuda-W during
the qualifications run, but Rob Hitchcock and I discover
that the tire was rubbing on the frame. We beat a nice
dent in the frame to give the tire clearance, and took
in back to Muleshoe for another test run. Much better!
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The Varna team prepares
to race the Diablo, but who will ride it? Sam and Andrea
will be switching off all week in this bike. Sam rode it
tonight. |
| Mackie Martin cruised
down Rt 305 in the TriRush. This bike has much bigger
windows this year to allow Mackie to see things like hay
bales...
Mackie went 40.96 MPH |
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Eric Ware cruises by in
the Orange Varna trike, as darkness gathers.
Eric went 47.43 MPH. |
| I took a couple of
really dark and blurry pictures of Freddy and Sam. This
one of Lisa in the Varna II was interesting. Ellen did
not complete her run because the bike's gears would not
shift. Lisa went
60.21 MPH. |
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Racers gathered after
the races for the results announcements. In the center
of the picture are HPRA/Decimach timer Garrie Hill ,
Race Director Jonathan Woolrich, and HPVA timer Paul
Gracey. Dave Larrington lurks in the background.
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| 1 -
There has been a Quantity of Debate as to the correct
pronunciation of Mr. Webmaster Beauchamp's name.
Certain of the
Britons present, who deal with names such as
"Cholmondeley-Featherstonehaugh2" on a daily
basis, have taken to calling him "Beecham", while the
pragmatic Americans prefer "Bow-Champ". An attempt
to popularize "Blofeld" failed due to the disturbing
thought of the gentleman in question being obliged to
carry a white cat inside his bike while pedalling at
sixty miles per hour. At the Monday night debrief,
Mr. Beauchamp himself cut the Gordian Knot, announcing
that "It's pronounced Shrimp-Boat". So there we
have it...
2 - Which is, of course,
pronounced "Chumley-Fanshaw" |
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