gotbent wrote:
> Jock mentality/ego stroking. The fastest guy gets the chix. It is hilarious
> though. There are probably twenty to thirty fairly fast bent racers in the
> world and they for the most part couldn't beat their DF counterparts with a
> stick. So the speed thing is all mostly head tripping ********. Some of the
> best bent racers are still hobby racers. They have jobs and families and NO
> PROFESSIONAL contracts for international quality races.
I don't care about racing, but point me down a big hill on a 'bent
and I'll do my best to spin it out because it's *fun*.
There isn't a pro HPV circuit AFAICT, so it's hardly surprising
nobody's got contracts to do it. As for "couldn't beat their DF
counterparts with a stick", that would depend what sort of race it
was. A track based race with fairings on the 'bents would mean the
pros on the DFs getting a bloody good hiding, for example. IIRC
Rob English took the GB national pursuit squad, working together,
to the cleaners on the unfaired Kingcycle Hachi at Manchester
Velodrome, and the HPV hour record is about 30% than the UCI one,
even the better one without the even more braindead restrictions.
Pete.
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