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Lots of practice Pull 3K Drop in 5K Fire up 5K - shit this is good for $100 Listen to knocks when it warmed up - shit not so good 5K out 3K back in to compete next morning. All in an arvos work :)

Yeah I know but I couldnt be stuffed - just painted it like my KE20 (white grill, wheels etc and put on some of the sponsors logos)

For rims etc look up your local scale model club. I have a TE25 kit made up as a replica of my KE20 (did the same for my old man as well)

2hrs - were you being slack........ (helps with all the wiring being connected with plugs and some of the bolts being left out from previous changes :) )

At least a year ago - see pic for car

Yeah - it beat me at the Bendigo Sale Yards a while back (3rd outright was all I could get on the day :) )

So your responsible for the Skinners 1600 - damn that thing is quick

So Muller, did you make it to the saleyards on Sunday?

A number of Targa Tassie cars were running to a catch can and venting to the atmosphere. If its ok for an international standard rally then.....

:D

Damn wish I could go. The wagons sounds like a speaker has shit its self and before I spend the cash I would like a second opinion.

From memory they averaged over 30km/h just pedalling. Speedo said max speed was 53.1km/h......... The schools hybrid - 50cc honda power with pedalling will top out at close to 100km/h if they don't restrict its fuel use. It is actually easy to pedal as it has a very low frontal area. hardest part is actually seeing out of the thing :D last year I rolled a vehicle in training - slid for 11m on its side before it stopped (measured from the aluminium smeared into the road surface with my elbow dragging on the ground :(

Thats what hapens when you have a little one in your house.

Why change? A 5K shouldn't brake a stock diff if driven sensibly :D Hell I've only broken two locked diffs in 8 years doing motorkhanas etc.

My competition plans are on hold for a while Muller due to a new addition to the family (the young fellas nearly 3 months old :lolcry: ). I have a KE20 modded similar to yours see: My Webpage As you can see dirt is where I play the most as it costs too much for rear tyres the way I steer :D

Doing family stuff in Canberra - bloody inlaws.......

Sorry Tiger - other plans (family chrissy party) :P

Hey a local or close enough to it. I'm just down the road in Maryborough :P Good to see you looking at joining the Bendigo Car Club as they run some good events. The Saleyard Sprint is awesome

Welcome aboard - good to see the stickers working :P

Its just cause of mine isn't it Kangaroosa :P

Everything is paid for by sponsorship - school does f@$k all to help (actually they made it harder for the teams this year by restricting training). They are glad to accept the glory if we do well though....... I don't have any signage representing the school on the vehicle at all - only the schools initials on the kids shirts (in pissy little writing).

"freakin skinny bastards" They have to be to fit in it - my 90kgs barely squeezes into it. It's track is approx. 600mm wide.

Yep the end of November so I have 12 months to fix the vehicle. Took 12 months for the students to build it - I didn't have to lift a tool :hmm: don't have the funds to build another from scratch :sad: (any sponsorship gladly accepted) next year so this one gets a rerun after it is patched up.

The problem is that we weren't fit - I finished the race with only three riders capable of riding and we were beaten by 60 laps overall. There are some serious HPV's competing now - complete carbon fibre vehicles are common and some serious work is being done with areodynamics by some teams. Our HPV has a chrome moly chassis, carbon fibre reinforced aluminium canopy frame and a coreflute body. It weighs around 27kg and is considered fat. The junior schools HPV weighs 15kg!!!!! Top speed was around 54km/h in the race. One roll late in the race actually ground away half of an aluminium tube on the side of the bike. It finished the race held together with race tape :hmm:

Well I have just recovered from managing a school team in this years RACV Energy Breakthrough. This is an event for Human Powered Vehicles (HPV's) and Hybrid Vehicles which race for 24hrs straight. There are different classes depending on the age of the students. My team "RUN A MUK" were competing in the open class (no gender or age restrictions) against 20 other vehicles. Overall there were around 80 entries on the HPV track (hybrids compete on a separate track due to the speed differences). The team managed to set a new record for the most laps covered by the school for the second year in a row at 591 laps :). So to answer the question this works out to be 670 km's of pedalling by eight riders in 24 hours. This included being rolled 3 times during the race - twice within 2 laps by teams that were trying to catch us :D Overall results were * Fourth outright * third in class * first display and presentation (open class) * first design and construction (open class) * overall best display and presentation (secondary) When all of the above was added up we lost the overall point score for the open class by 2 points :hmm: Some pics below