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Mike Eliasohn, newsletter editor
It's almost time for our annual "big event," which is the oldest continuously held HPV event in North America.
There's one change from last year's schedule. Unfortunately, Paul Pancella, who has organized the urban transportation contest for the past few years, had an unavoidable conflict, so won't be at the rally this year, hence there will not be an UTC. (Paul and his fellow physicists have yet to discover how to be in two places at once.) So you can leave your lights, baskets, fenders, etc. home this year, but presumably the UTC will be part of the 2006 rally.
The entry fee is the same as last year: $35 for both days; $25 for one day (Saturday or Sunday). The entry fee includes membership in the MHPVA. If you are not racing, annual MHPVA dues are $10. A test ride pass is $5. Spectators are admitted free. In addition to all the regular prizes, for the second year, we will have a special prize for "best homebuilt." There's no set criteria, except that last year's winner is ineligible, should it return. The prize, like last year, will be a copy of Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza, by
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Brad Graham and Kathy McGowan (388 pages, McGraw-Hill, 2004), which retails for $24.95.
The Michigan HPV Rally uses Human Powered Race - America classes and rules (http://www.recumbents.com/hpra/
rulesand.htm).
Free camping is available overnight Friday and Saturday at the Waterford Hills Sportsman Club, site of the HPV rally, starting at 6 p.m. Friday. Restrooms, showers available and possibly electrical hookups.
Remember, volunteers are needed to help run events and to assist with scorekeeping.
This newsletter includes a copy of the rally flier. You can help publicize our event, and hopefully attract more entrants and spectators, by printing a copy, making photocopies and then distributing them to bike shops (especially those in the "hinterlands"), cyclists you think might be interested, and even the guy (or gal) on the dropped handlebar road bike (some recumbent riders call them "wedgees") who blows by you when you're pedaling down the road.
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Here's the schedule:
Saturday, June 11
- 8 am - Registration, vehicle inspection, practice runs.
- 9:30 am - Hour time trial (faster vehicles).
- 11 am - Hour time trial (slower vehicles).
- Noon - Lunch break (bring your own food or eat at nearby restaurants).
- 1:30 pm - Hill climb / coast down (counts as two events).
- 3:30 pm - 1,000 meter (1 kilometer) time trial.
Sunday, June 12
- 8 am - Registration, vehicle inspection, practice runs.
- 9 am - Speed sprints (flying start, speed timed through 200 feet timing trap).
- 11 am - Road races (no classes).
- 2 pm - Awards presentation.
(Please see "Rally" continued on Page 2)
Photo at left of 2004 Rally by Mike Brady
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