Recumbent wins BAF

Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

"Ted" writes:

Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt


How many other monstrosities were there in the race?
--
le Vent a Dos
Davey Crockett
Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html

several, dont know for sure but it only took one to win

"Davey Crockett" wrote in message
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"Ted" writes:

Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across
Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile
course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders
that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes
and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt


How many other monstrosities were there in the race?
--
le Vent a Dos
Davey Crockett
Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html

"Ted" wrote in message
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Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile
course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders
that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes
and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt


Since you obviously didn't see the other thread on this subject that's been
going, I'll re-post my reply.

In the article, the winner says he wanted to prove the relative efficiency
of his recumbent vs. conventional bikes. Of course, he picks the flattest
stretch of road on the planet. Lets see how its efficiency stands up at,
say, the Assault on Mt. Mitchell or the Six Gap Century or some event like
that. He didn't prove anything we didn't know. Recumbents can go fast on
the flat. Duh.

Bob C.

Ted wrote:
Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across
Florida ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167
mile course in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1
and 2 riders that were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners
of Bacchetta Bikes and was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650
recumbent. Here is the story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

The article also said:

"Schlitter finished less than a second ahead of second-place finisher Dave
Dimey, 53, of Ontario, Canada."

and

"The top female finisher [...] finished nine minutes behind Schlitter.
[...] Making her top women's finish even more remarkable is that she's
only been riding bikes for about 10 months."

bill bachelors group would have won if they went down the same course. its
not as flat as you think out in the middle of the state either.....


"Ted" wrote in message
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Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile
course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders
that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes
and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

Woulda, shoulda, coulda

Based on the statement made by the second place finisher,(the recumbent
could not climb or sprint good) he should have out sprinted him at the
finish. Maybe the recumbent sprinted better than he stated
"JTN" wrote in message
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bill bachelors group would have won if they went down the same course. its
not as flat as you think out in the middle of the state either.....


"Ted" wrote in message
...
Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across
Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile
course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders
that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta Bikes
and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

Recumbants can get up to and hold a high speed that makes it difficult to
come around. There is also very little draft effect to use in passing.
You're comparing Apples and Oranges. Let us know when a recumbant sets the
absolute cycling record going up Mt. Washington or Mt. Evans.

"Ted" wrote in message
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Woulda, shoulda, coulda

Based on the statement made by the second place finisher,(the recumbent
could not climb or sprint good) he should have out sprinted him at the
finish. Maybe the recumbent sprinted better than he stated
"JTN" wrote in message
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bill bachelors group would have won if they went down the same course.
its
not as flat as you think out in the middle of the state either.....


"Ted" wrote in message
...
Great news everyone! A recumbent has won the 167 mile Bike Across
Florida
ride this past weekend. 47 year old John Schlitter rote the 167 mile
course
in 6:49 setting a course record and outrunning mayn cat 1 and 2 riders
that
were competing in the ride. John is one of the owners of Bacchetta
Bikes
and
was riding a Bacchetta Aero, a titanium dual 650 recumbent. Here is
the
story.
http://www.chronicleonline.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

Oooh lala , Mt. washington - a big 4000 feet high

"Prot" wrote in message
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Recumbants can get up to and hold a high speed that makes it difficult to
come around. There is also very little draft effect to use in passing.
You're comparing Apples and Oranges. Let us know when a recumbant sets
the
absolute cycling record going up Mt. Washington or Mt. Evans.

psycholist wrote:
In the article, the winner says he wanted to prove the relative efficiency
of his recumbent vs. conventional bikes. Of course, he picks the flattest
stretch of road on the planet. Lets see how its efficiency stands up at,
say, the Assault on Mt. Mitchell or the Six Gap Century or some event like
that. He didn't prove anything we didn't know. Recumbents can go fast on
the flat. Duh.

This experiment has been run. Long time RBR hacks remember Eric House's
'bent experience.

Eric was an ultra-marathoner and used to hold the course record for the
Furnace Creek 508. If I remember it correctly he bought a 'bent after
a crash in which he broke his collarbone, in order to not disrupt his
training.

He then rode the recumbent in the Furnace Creek race, a race in which
at the time he held the upright record at 29 hours. On the 'bent he
established a course record that stood until last year at 35 hours.
The race has over 35000 ft of climbing. The difference in his times
was almost exactly 6 hours.

Bob Schwartz