Showing posts with label Kilometer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kilometer. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Optima Baron Recumbent Kilometer Race

Video of myself doing the One Kilometer Standing Start event at the 333 meter Kenosha Velodrome 7/08/2007. My time = 1:20.56 for 1000 meters. Average Speed = 27.77 mph/44.69 kph. My best on an upight bike is 1:15.15, but in time I know I will beat this with my recumbent. You feel so much faster on a recumbent versus an upright bike. It is a lot of fun. This was my second day racing my Optima Baron, as you can see from my wobble at the start. I modified the Baron with a larger 451 front wheel for hopefully lower rolling resistance. It also has a steel front fork with disk brake mount. I used regular road caliper brakes, and used only my 62 tooth chainring with a 11-34 rear cassette during the run. Due to the set up of the timing equipment, we had to swing wide on laps 1 and 2 to avoid the timing strip as we crossed the start/finish line. Approximate Lap by Lap Results from video analysis: Start Race @ 5.5 secs End Lap 1 @ 36 secs, lap 1 = 30.5 sec = 24.4 mph End Lap 2 @ 60 secs, lap 2 = 24 sec = 31.0 mph End Lap 3 @ 86 secs, lap 3 = 26 sec = 28.6 mph Thanks to John Liam for filming this.

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