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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 5:42pm
To get all serious for a moment, in case anyone should fail to spot the humour in the posts above, have as much fun as you like mentally devising energy storage mechanisms, but if you have stored energy on board your vehicle at the start of a race, you're not Human Powered: it's in DA RULES
 
Though a very strict reading of DA RULES might prohibit it, the convenience of the nearby club house might just lead us to continue to start races at Hog Hill at the top of the hill.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 6:07pm
Originally posted by rob gillions rob gillions wrote:

Now that's an interesting option - I'm thinking an air tank, lightweight air motor, pedal driven compressor, 3 weeks in front of the telly ....
 
Training indoors, and a rocketship on the track when I finally get there - what's not to like ? Evil Smile
 
I always thought the water powered rocket to be the best bet. Not sure how anyone behind you at the start line would feel about it.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 6:15pm
Originally posted by Neil Neil wrote:

Originally posted by rob gillions rob gillions wrote:

Now that's an interesting option - I'm thinking an air tank, lightweight air motor, pedal driven compressor, 3 weeks in front of the telly ....
 
Training indoors, and a rocketship on the track when I finally get there - what's not to like ? Evil Smile
 
I always thought the water powered rocket to be the best bet. Not sure how anyone behind you at the start line would feel about it.
 
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I remember Adam Hart-Davis demonstrating that compressed air propelling a jet of water was much more effective at propelling a vehicle than just a jet of compressed air.  But I think Rob is thinking of an air-powered motor.  It has been done.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 8:32pm
But presumably a stored energy device that did NOT contain energy at the start would be legal?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 8:55pm
I'm thinking that somebody getting a bit carried away with the old Heinz Baked Beans could be facing a life ban... Big smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 9:03pm
Originally posted by AlanGoodman AlanGoodman wrote:

I'm thinking that somebody getting a bit carried away with the old Heinz Baked Beans could be facing a life ban... Big smile

Is carbon fibre flameproof then?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 March 2009 at 9:38pm
Originally posted by Paul Lowing Paul Lowing wrote:

But presumably a stored energy device that did NOT contain energy at the start would be legal?




Since wheels are flywheels, it would be hard to ban them...
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