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2005 Scrapbook
IN THE AUGUST NEWSLETTER, Mike Mowett mentioned state junior racing champion Cory Dubrish, 17, of Grosse Pointe. Here he is competing at Waterford Hills in June. In the stock class, he finished 8th in the one-hour time trial and 9th in both the hill climb and coast down.
DAVID "DOC" PEARSON OF Mooresville, Ind., brought along his new folding recumbent to HPRA events this summer. It's for street use, not for racing. Don Berry built it from a Sun folding bike. It's front wheel drive, using a 3x7 hub (21 speeds; no front deraileur needed) and 155mm cranks. The original front wheel is now the back wheel.In addition to welding on the boom, Don welded on a horizontal square tube for the EZ-1 recumbent seat to attach to. The seat has to be removed before the bike can be folded.
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GARY TOY of Chicago raced his made-in-Belgium Cobra low racer at the May 21 race at Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Ill. It's carbon fiber, front-wheel-drive, and has a cantilever rear hub (supported on one side only). It weighs about 24 pounds. Gary has owned it three years.
STEVE SPENCER, co-organizer of the race in Morris, raced this BikeE that he and his father, La Verne, converted into a semi low racer. Other such conversions use the stock 20-inch rear wheel. The Spencers squeezed in a 26-inch wheel for better gearing. Making the conversion requires drilling out the rivets holding the rear stays in place, then drilling new holes to reposition the stays in a horizontal position.
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