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2005 WHPSC Saturday Racing Results
and Report
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Riders line up for the 1 hour
"fun" race, in the Battle Mountain high school
parking lot. In the front, Roadie Matt Chater practices his track stand. Dennis
Grelk hangs out on the Gritters lowracer and Dusty Wood awaits the
start on his Tour Easy. In the background, Steve Delaire gets
re-righted. |
| At the hairpin turn, riders had
to do some serious leaning to make the corner. Here, the Cal
Poly 'liner takes the corner at speed. The course was set up
by Bill Gaines, who made sure that it was an
"equalizer" course which would not favor
streamliners. |
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Dennis Grelk hits the hairpin,
followed by ? on a dual 26" Rotator, and Steve Delaire on
a faired Rotator.
Matt pulled away and took
an early lead, followed by Dusty on the Tour Easy, and Dennis
on the Gritters lowracer. |
| Steve Delaire slowly reeled in
all the riders. Here, he yells "Passing on your the
outside! Don't take the corner wide! " as he passes
Dennis on the hairpin.
Steve eventually caught Matt,
but a series of crashes (Dusty, Cal Poly and Steve),
eventually changed the finish order to Matt, Steve, then Dennis.
Dusty was the recipient of some
gnarly road rash. |
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Steve Nash fixes damage to this
year's Varnowski speedbike, incurred during Ellen's 50+ MPH
crash.
After the Saturday evening
races, the body was loaded up onto Garrie's trailer for Thom
to haul it back to Ohio, so Garrie could pack it up and send
it to Hans and Ellen in Holland. Hans will make a new chassis
for it, and they will use it for Ellen to make an attempt on
the hour and other long distance records. |
| That Mountain with all the
clouds streaming off of it is Mt Lewis, as seen from the SR
305 catch area. It doesn't look that big from here, but it
took a Reeeeally long time to drive up to the top.
Temps were cold today and winds
were the worst of the entire week, so speeds were low, except
for Damjan, who set another Euro record in both the 200 Meter
and 1 Kilo timed distances.
On the upside, no crashes! |
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At the awards dinner, Chris
Broome and Jonathan Woolrich hand out the awards and dispense gratitude
to all the volunteers, contributors, and participants.
Garrie Hill notes that the .decimach
prize will only be available for 1 more year.
So ends WHPSC2005! |
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