Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!

In between all of our Mayors' Ride excitement, I talked to Fast Freddy
Markham today and at just shy of the half century mark, he is still an
unbeatable bike racing force, Here's the story:

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At approximately 6:20 am on July 2nd, 2006, 20 years after winning the
Dupont prize, Fast Freddy Markham set his 20th world record; winning the
prestigious Dempsey - MacCready Hour Record Prize. Fast Freddy covered a
distance of 53.43 miles in one hour, bettering the previous record by
over 1 mile. Fast Freddy and the Easy Racers team received the $18,000
prize for the fastest one hour in history. Over $40,000 was awarded to
the participants. It was a fantastic event and Fast Freddy proved to the
world that after more than 3 decades of racing he¹s still a world class
athlete.
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This important bit of news is at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents/...es/000103.html
And links from our highly trafficked bent web at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents

And most importantly, it's at http://www.easyracers.com

Too awesome!

Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
http://www.BikeRoute.com/MKRIEG.HTML
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
2007 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist

wrote:
In between all of our Mayors' Ride excitement, I talked to Fast Freddy
Markham today and at just shy of the half century mark, he is still an
unbeatable bike racing force, Here's the story:

========================================
At approximately 6:20 am on July 2nd, 2006, 20 years after winning the
Dupont prize, Fast Freddy Markham set his 20th world record; winning the
prestigious Dempsey - MacCready Hour Record Prize. Fast Freddy covered a
distance of 53.43 miles in one hour, bettering the previous record by
over 1 mile. Fast Freddy and the Easy Racers team received the $18,000
prize for the fastest one hour in history. Over $40,000 was awarded to
the participants. It was a fantastic event and Fast Freddy proved to the
world that after more than 3 decades of racing he¹s still a world class
athlete.
========================================

This important bit of news is at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents/...es/000103.html
And links from our highly trafficked bent web at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents

And most importantly, it's at http://www.easyracers.com

Too awesome!

Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
http://www.BikeRoute.com/MKRIEG.HTML
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
2007 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.
Bill Baka

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:57:18 GMT, Bill
wrote:

wrote:
In between all of our Mayors' Ride excitement, I talked to Fast Freddy
Markham today and at just shy of the half century mark, he is still an
unbeatable bike racing force, Here's the story:

========================================
At approximately 6:20 am on July 2nd, 2006, 20 years after winning the
Dupont prize, Fast Freddy Markham set his 20th world record; winning the
prestigious Dempsey - MacCready Hour Record Prize. Fast Freddy covered a
distance of 53.43 miles in one hour, bettering the previous record by
over 1 mile. Fast Freddy and the Easy Racers team received the $18,000
prize for the fastest one hour in history. Over $40,000 was awarded to
the participants. It was a fantastic event and Fast Freddy proved to the
world that after more than 3 decades of racing he¹s still a world class
athlete.
========================================

This important bit of news is at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents/...es/000103.html
And links from our highly trafficked bent web at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents

And most importantly, it's at http://www.easyracers.com

Too awesome!

Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
http://www.BikeRoute.com/MKRIEG.HTML
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
2007 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.
Bill Baka

WHAT a complete DUNCE!

Bill wrote:
wrote:

========================================
At approximately 6:20 am on July 2nd, 2006, 20 years after winning the
Dupont prize, Fast Freddy Markham set his 20th world record; winning the
prestigious Dempsey - MacCready Hour Record Prize. Fast Freddy covered a
distance of 53.43 miles in one hour, bettering the previous record by
over 1 mile. Fast Freddy and the Easy Racers team received the $18,000
prize for the fastest one hour in history. Over $40,000 was awarded to
the participants. It was a fantastic event and Fast Freddy proved to the
world that after more than 3 decades of racing he¹s still a world class
athlete.
========================================

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.
Bill Baka

Bill, these bikes are not legal in races like the TdF. See picture at
http://www.easyracers.com/
For the Dupont prize Markham was on a recumbent bike with a full
fairing/stocking around it. He's also on a closed course. This model is
still available from Easy Racers as the Gold Rush,
http://www.easyracers.com/gold_rush.htm The picture shows a street
fairing, not the type of wind cover Markham rode for the Dupont prize.

As a thought experiment, imagine 160 guys racing these things on an
Alpine stage of the TdF.

Markham deserves credit for his accomplishment, but it's in a different
class. It's like comparing stock car racing with Indy car racing.

Bill wrote:

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.

One's a bicycle race. The other's a freak show.

HTH

in message , Bill
') wrote:

wrote:
In between all of our Mayors' Ride excitement, I talked to Fast
Freddy
Markham today and at just shy of the half century mark, he is still
an unbeatable bike racing force, Here's the story:

========================================
At approximately 6:20 am on July 2nd, 2006, 20 years after winning the
Dupont prize, Fast Freddy Markham set his 20th world record; winning
the prestigious Dempsey - MacCready Hour Record Prize. Fast Freddy
covered a distance of 53.43 miles in one hour, bettering the previous
record by over 1 mile. Fast Freddy and the Easy Racers team received
the $18,000 prize for the fastest one hour in history. Over $40,000
was awarded to the participants. It was a fantastic event and Fast
Freddy proved to the world that after more than 3 decades of racing
he¹s still a world class athlete.
========================================

This important bit of news is at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents/...es/000103.html
And links from our highly trafficked bent web at:
http://www.bikeroute.com/Recumbents

And most importantly, it's at http://www.easyracers.com

Too awesome!

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.

UCI rules. Let us not, for heaven's sakes, ever let any vulgar technical
innovation perturb the gentlemanly sport of cycle racing. Or something.
Myself, I'd love a ride in Fast Freddie's bike - or Sam Whittingham's for
that matter. But then I'm a heathen, and believe that as long as mans'
ingenuity can build it and a man's muscles can power it (and it has two
wheels) it's a bike.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Windows 95:
You, you, you! You make a grown man cry...
M. Jagger/K. Richards

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:41:10 GMT, "Bill Sornson" wrote:

Bill wrote:

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.

One's a bicycle race. The other's a freak show.

HTH


Speaking of freak shows... Hi, Bill.

in message , Bill Sornson
') wrote:

Bill wrote:

How come these guys never seem to show up at the TdF?
They would blow away the others at individual time trials, even if not
winning the race.

One's a bicycle race. The other's a freak show.

True; but which?

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; this is not a .sig

In 1991, I was running the lap counter and ringing the bell at the LA
Olympic Festival at the old 7-11 Olympic Velodrome on the campus of
California State University, Dominguez Hills.

One of the events was a 150 lap (50km) scratch race. Fast Freddie was
in the field. He went up one lap, then another, and finally a third.
Some other riders got one lap, and I think maybe one or two got two
laps, but Freddie was so fast, he saved the majority of the racers 1km
(2%) of the race distance!

As best I can recall, the time for the race was just over 1 hour. My
recollection is that the winning speed was almost 48 km/h (29.5 mph
sticks in my memory).

Even then, Markham was a "masters" rider!

Simon Brooke wrote in news:ikfap3-
:

But then I'm a heathen, and believe that as long as mans'
ingenuity can build it and a man's muscles can power it (and it has two
wheels) it's a bike.


I'm just curious, and this is a serious question. Are recumbents difficult
to control in a group? I mean, is it difficult to steer and ride while
draftig in various formations? How does it compare to drafting on a
"normal" bike?

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