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 up tire. On [...]
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 up tire. On [...]
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 more time [...]
Read More...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 bad. I am sure [...]
April 28
April 28, 2006
Geometry comparison, rear wheel fairing and canopy bubble.
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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, my body shouldn’t know [...]
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 days worth of [...]
Read More...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 see how much detraining happened [...]
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 concerned that I [...]
Read More...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 one, so [...]
Read More...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 one in Alabama [...]
Read More...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 existing 24 hour [...]
Read More...Feb 13
Feb 13, 2006
The Perfect Prone Energy Accumulator Human Powered Vehicle Concept
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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 concept. If you have [...]
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 each location.
It turns out [...]
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 I forgot to set my [...]
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 a good incubation [...]
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 out more lumins [...]
Read More...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 HID car [...]
Read More...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. The frame takes [...]
Read More...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 of the mold. The [...]
Read More...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 only. Ground shipping [...]
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