It's been quiet recently, has there been any updates on his training?
I think the event is in mid-September
hes been doing the talks circuit , ihad 3 tickets to go see him in tarland but was stuck off shore in equatorial guinea for the duration 🙁
MMmmmmmm.... guinea pigs..
Decent article on him and the speed attempt in this months Cyclist(Oct) magazine.
As above , great article . I think the man is a legend and I really hope he breaks the record. In the article he talks about how he enginered "The Beastie" on a shoestring and was chuffed to bits to get some perspex for a £10 to make a helmet. 😀
He also dosen't own a car and cycle everywhere on and old tourer with panniers. He's some dude.
I went to his talk in Aboyne last week. Sounds like his training hasn't been ideal with some surgery and complications. He didn't seem hopeful of a record.
He's in the US apparently.
Lots of stuff I didn't know in this article. It sounds like he's wisely lowered his expectations though
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/bulletproof-beastie-can-make-fastest-2258015
he's at the gft in Glasgow on 23rd of November for a talk.
12th November at the GFT, [url= http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/whats_on/date:2013-11-12 ]Tickets here.[/url].
It'll be well worth going to, i was at his previous talk at Oran Mor back in July with regard to his 20th anniversary of the hour record, bloody good night and very amusing Q & A section afterwards, i asked him if he'd consider standing for presidency of the UCI, he replied i'm far too qualified for such a role 😆
ah yes, it is the 12th. as long as I turn up on the right day.......
...I once rode at 76mph down Scafell Pike...
The guy is an absolute legend.
i remember showing him my terry dolan road bike back in '93, old skool skinny steel, and he looked at the top tube and said 'do you not find that tube battering your knees with every pedal stroke?'
the thing is, he was serious.
He gave our club (GMBC) a really enlightening close up and personal chat at Alpine Bikes the other month. Only about 25 of us there incl the shop guys, so was really good. He's a complicated and fascinating guy for sure and it would be great if he managed it.
http://obree.com/obree-news/325-battle-mountain-hpv-update.html
46.8mph on his first run over 2.5 miles, although he reached 55+mph at one point.
I've met him a couple of times, he's quite clearly as mad as a box of frogs, but great to listen to and a bit of a legend.
Good to see it getting some big media coverage, complete with a brief but well written synopsis of Obree's influence on the sport - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24015622
More insight [url= http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/13453/i-need-to-focus-on-my-eyeballs-coming-out-of-my-head/ ]here[/url]
Go Graeme go!
more cheese gromit?
some times coming in here http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2013/results.htm
Obree is well down on the some of the other bikes - doesn't look good - or is he just testing the bike for a fast run later in the week?
From what I read on twitter, he was stuggling with steering meaning that he couldn't go at full power. He was talking about increasing the gearing to try and help make the bike more stable (or more to the point, presumably to mean he was moving around less).
Every prone recumbent I've tried has been insanely twitchy - I'm not sure of the exact reason, but I wonder if that's what's causing him problems.
I'm not sure of the exact reason, but I wonder if that's what's causing him problems.
Ben ,Looking at [url= 
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Think I read that he's missing Tuesday to change gear ratios, she gets a bit twitchy at a high cadence, apparantly.
The article on the [url= http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/graeme-obree-recruits-record-man-2266014 ]Daily Record[/url] site sums up just how mad he is - very well written I thought.
“Put the notepad down big man, I need you to launch the bike.”
Brilliant 😉
I had a shot on a procumbent that Venom built in the mid 90s (at low speed) and it was very twitchy.
It's obviously a big proving session for Obree, interesting to see what potential his design has when he irons out the development issues. At first glance it doesn't look like it is radically better than some of the alternatives in terms of frontal area.
It is a great competition. Basically a race full of Obrees, all working on original designs. I liked the backwards Slovenian steering with a mirror.
I liked the backwards Slovenian steering with a mirror.
Link? 🙂 That's brilliant!
Also worth following [url=www.humansinvent.com/]Humans Invent[/url]
Just noticed I've been beaten to it 😳
I think he's riding again at about 4:20pm our time
He seems to be mates with Hoy. I wonder if trying to persuade him to ride the bike would not be considered cricket...?
Hoy wouldn't fit in that thing!
He could put bulges in the side.. kind of like muscle cars have a bonnet bulge this could have a thigh bulge.
I was thinking more of his shoulders...
Thinking about Hoy in one. Jason Queally was the british record holder for a while, so it seems sprinters can do it, but why do they insist on having a 5 mile length for the track?
I would have thought that once you're up near top speed, you've already used most of your energy.
Maybe they want it to be a longer effort than a sprint? Seems odd.
Think it's a five mile track with a marked-off 200 metre "timing section", the five miles is for them to get up to speed, cross the timing section, then slow down again at the end, I think. Don't think they have to record a time over the whole five miles.
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Think it's a five mile track with a marked-off 200 metre "timing section", the five miles is for them to get up to speed, cross the timing section, then slow down again at the end, I think. Don't think they have to record a time over the whole five miles.
No they don't but Graeme has been saying that the 2.5mile course for qualifying suits him better.
Maybe it's difficult to coast along for a couple of miles (due to gearing) before really going for it.
Here's that reverse one 😯
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Queally had a go, about 10 years ago?, in Blue Yonder, but it was simply too big, and he didn't get anywhere near the record. Have a look at the photos of current record holder Whittingham, and his Varna. You'll wonder how he fits inside, let alone pedals at 80mph.
Queally had a go, about 10 years ago?, in Blue Yonder, but it was simply too big, and he didn't get anywhere near the record.
It was quite silly really - made you wonder if they didn't have a single person who understood aero on the team. Was pretty obvious to anybody with even a basic understanding that they weren't going to break the record with a machine which had twice the frontal area of the others, no matter how good the engine was. I'm not just talking with hindsight here either - I remember thinking when I first saw it that it was rather big. They appear to have started from a position Queally was comfortable riding in and made that as aero as possible, rather than start with making something as aero as possible with a human body in and then work out how to pedal it, which is what the top guys do.
Problem was, they had all F1 designers on the team - with cars, if you need more power you just tweak the engine - can't do that with bikes.
It was funny the way they blew £250,000 on it, then got beaten by a 16-year-old girl on the Varna team 😉
“I don’t fear death. I once rode at 76mph down Scafell Pike in the Lake District on racing tyres, wearing only a skin suit and no helmet."
😯 Nutter.
Obree is a ****ing legend. A man Lance Armstrong could never be.
