May 4 May 4, 2006 Rolling Resistance coast down tests, food bag holders, canopy bubble lifter One of the major changes with this version of CriticalPower are two new wheels. On the rear I was using a 700 Zipp deep rim carbon wheel with carbon disc covers and a Zipp latex high pressure tubular sew […]
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May 4 May 4, 2006 Rolling Resistance coast down tests, food bag holders, canopy bubble lifter One of the major changes with this version of CriticalPower are two new wheels. On the rear I was using a 700 Zipp deep rim carbon wheel with carbon disc covers and a Zipp latex high pressure tubular sew […]
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May 3 May 3, 2006 New CriticalPower logos The original concept behind the skull and cross bones logo stemmed from the fact that the raw dusty black carbon shell with the white dome made CriticalPower look kind of like a Rat Rod. Rat Rods are hot rod’s from the 1950’s where the builders spent far […]
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May 2 May 2, 2006 Communications system, hydration/nutrition system, more Shapelock coolness and the crew headset Earth to Greg, Earth to Greg… This is the ChatterBox Person to Person Sports Communication System headset. The speakers they provide are supposed to be inserted into the liner of a motorcycle helmet, but the speaker really SUCK! Very […]
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April 28 April 28, 2006 Geometry comparison, rear wheel fairing and canopy bubble. (click for bigger) You can see in the image above, that the positions are very, very similar. I need to move the bottom bracket back about 1/2″ on the M5 to exactly equal the foot position of CriticalPower, but other than that, […]
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April 26 April 26, 2006 First lowracer ride of the season, getting the M5 ready for some serious mileage, getting CriticalPower up and running, the rear wheel fairing and some chain guides made with this really cool moldable plastic called ShapeLock. The cleanup of M5 took way longer than I expected – probably about 2 […]
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April 23 April 23, 2006 The 4 R’s – Rested, Recovered and Ready to Rock! After a fantastic 9 day vacation in Florida with Helen and the kids, I am feeling wonderfully recovered and ready to hit the summer hard! Here is how the summer is lining up: 1. Police half marathon next Sunday. I’ll […]
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April 2 April 2, 2006 Glassing the PETG canopy bubble and a gravity blown rear wheel fairing Since the 1/16″ thick PETG canopy bubble was so thin, I thought that maybe coating the inside with a couple layers of fiberglass would be easier than making a new canopy out of thicker PETG. I was also […]
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March 28 March 28, 2006 Since I posted this photo of Greg B and myself sporting our new, super cool CriticalPower T-shirts, I have been besieged with requests for T-shirts! The world has gone completely CP Crazy. (ok, not actually. What really happened was Thom Ollinger sent me an email asking if he could buy […]
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March 25 March 25, 2006 The super canopy machine and stiffening ribs for the streamliner fairing shells. I was playing around with making a new canopy bubble for CriticalPower because the old one is pretty scratched up from the Alabama record attempt. Also, we had to cut a hole in the nose of the old […]
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Feb 23 Feb 23, 2006 Christian Aschebergs 24 hour record attempt in Berlin, my next attempt at the 24, CriticalPower mods, and an interview with Endurance radio On Feb 21st at 3:14 pm (local time), Christian Ascheberg set off to loop around the Berlin Velodrome 4084 times in a 24 hour period and break the […]
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Feb 13 Feb 13, 2006 The Perfect Prone Energy Accumulator Human Powered Vehicle Concept (click on all the images to enlarge) I’ve had this idea in my head for a long, long time and like most of my ideas, it just really needed to get explored. I spent a couple hours drafting up this preliminary […]
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Dec 09 December 09, 2005 uninspired, tired and expired . I hate winter. Winter sucks. I Googled “I hate winter”. Earlier this week I spent a few days planning out another record attempt. I researched a half dozen possible race tracks that aren’t as far away as Alabama, and downloaded 5 years of weather data for […]
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Dec 02 December 02, 2005 HPV 24 hour record attempt at the NCAT test track in Opelika, Alabama What a journey it has been! Here is the full report: Sunday, Nov 20, 2005 – Ben rings the door bell and wakes me up. I told him to be at my house by 6:30 am and […]
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Nov 25, 2005 HPV 24 hour distance record attempt What a day!!! Wow – I’m still recovering. An experience of a lifetime. I’ll file a better report when I get back to Calgary, but for now here is how it all went down: Our 4 day / 4000 km drive to Opelika, Alabama was apparently […]
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Nov 16 November 16, 2005 Charging panel, HID headlight, landing gear hatch, cockpit layout. I built this panel to organize all of the various electrical power requirements for the CP1. The HID light runs for 2 hours, 10 minutes on a rechargeable 16 volt, 7200 mAh lithium polymer battery. This single 3″ diameter light puts […]
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Nov 10 November 10, 2005 16 days to go!! I have to show you this light – it’s freaking awesome man! Most of the credit goes to Matt Weaver who has done the research and was able to tell me exactly how to build the worlds most powerful portable bike light. It’s a 35 watt […]
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Nov 5 November 5, 2005 Getting closer. Went to the track yesterday, and I did a couple of laps around the oval with the frame only, and decided NOT to risk doing any testing with the fairing on. It was WAY too windy. Sustained winds of 30 kph with gusts of over 40 to 50. […]
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Oct 31 October 31, 2005 Good progress today! My screw up yesterday was reversed today when I spend the entire day sanding down my messed up fairing shell. I started with 100 grit, then 200, then wet sanded with 400 and it looks pretty spectacular Even smoother than it was when it first came out […]
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Oct 302 October 30, 2005 Cutting down the frame for shipping, the new fairing shell, training, etc, etc I spent almost the entire day yesterday phoning all the courier companies trying to learn about each of their unique limitations of shipping the CP1 to Alabama. What a pain! Basically, I am looking at air shipping […]
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