Death race in Australia? or something like it?

[whatever]

dont worry about the race just go in as a demonstration vehicle and organise with some others day before to be on track at same time........and let loose, its a very hilly track with very tight corners, some of the hills are quite steep but very short.
Theres a good long straight but its mainly tight corners.

[Hyena]

hah, no pedalling, no lipo, <$200 and <5kg. So the weight rules out SLA and the price rules out just about everything else. WTF are you supposed to propel the bike with ? Is there a limit to how many cans of baked beans you're allowed to eat the night before ?

dont worry about the race just go in as a demonstration vehicle and organise with some others day before to be on track at same time........and let loose, its a very hilly track with very tight corners, some of the hills are quite steep but very short.
Theres a good long straight but its mainly tight corners.

Cool that sounds good, I'd be happy to go in as a "demonstration vehicle" and if the guy along side can ride faster than me then good for him
Hopefully I have my custom frames built by then so will actually have something to demonstrate.

[Hobbit]

It'd be cool to get a good ES contingent showing up.
Road trip ?

Well i will be taking "the millenium volkswagen".. Fill 'er up??

Probably leave sydney early sat morn, stay "somewhere" sat night....home sun night.

[Hyena]

Well i will be taking "the millenium volkswagen".. Fill 'er up??

Sounds good! I hear she made the Hunter run in less than 12 parsecs

Looking through the info on the race it seems the rules they have in place for this year are alot more restrictive than last year. The pics show alot of the teams using SLAs (which would be heavier than 5kg) and the winner last year was using lipo I believe. Banning lipo on the risk of fire and explosion is a stupid and and outdated view especially considering an event like this is supposed to be promoting moving forward with EVs.
And even if there was a crash on the track and one caught fire whats the worst that could happen ? stop the race for 5 minutes then go pick up the still glowing remains with garden gloves Every other motor racing event has frequent fires and they don't cry about it. I might bring up old lipo packs up and do some liveforphysics style demonstrations to show how stable these packs really are and that they're being a bunch of nancies.

[Brute]

[quote="Hyena"]hah, no pedalling, no lipo, <$200 and <5kg. So the weight rules out SLA and the price rules out just about everything else. WTF are you supposed to propel the bike with ? Is there a limit to how many cans of baked beans you're allowed to eat the night before ?
Right on the money there Hyena , Here`s a pic of last years winner .

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_may2006/ ... rcycle.jpg

[jamo96]

shall I bring my go kart:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=40631

[Hobbit]

ooh yeah, that is a gnarly cart...Newcastle will never be the same.