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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: ======================================== 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 hešs 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 |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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 hešs 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! |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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 hešs 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. |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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 |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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 hešs 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 |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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. |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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 |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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! |
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Fast Freddy breaks one hour World record on Easy Racer!
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? -- fnood fneep gnip gnop http://greep.flood.nit |
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