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   Mixed bag Wednesday morning; Russell fastest with a 67.44 while not trying very hard.  Wednesday evening cancelled because Weather.

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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 September 2025 at 12:52am
	Mixed bag Wednesday morning; Russell fastest with a 67.44 while not trying very hard. Wednesday evening cancelled because Weather.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 September 2025 at 9:43pm
	Overnight rain b****red off leaving Thursday morning clear if a little on the chilly side - 6 C when parked in the shade. Wind a bit bobbins early on for the qualifiers but was mostly OK for the runs on the full course. Natch it wasn't when Slash banged in a 60.56, but it was for Russ' new PB at 74.23 and François' new PB and European record of 86.96 mph. Pleasing to report that Adam Hari finally managed a half-decent run at somewhere over 65¹ with the Kevlar crash panels still in place. Amusing to report Barney wandering off to the five mile start with the keys to Cobus Burger's truck² still in his pocket. And we had a visit from a horsey: Which fortunately stayed on the right side of the fence. I've got the right hat but my l33t horsey-wrangling 5k1llz are this: 0. 1: Timing FAIL; by the Timelord, not the system. 2: Parked at catch. Six miles away.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 September 2025 at 2:40am
	Drove out to the course with very black skies looming in the distance, dropped off the timing kit, set off for the start. By Mile 4 it was tipping down. By the time we'd reached the start, turned round and gone back to timing it was raining there too. Executive summary: no runs Thursday night.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 September 2025 at 11:49pm
	Had a whole flock of horseys this morning and thought we might have to get Dr Chief Starter Calvin Moes to scare them off with his drone. Cool but sunny this am; David van Erd in Orange Bullet fastest with 69.21 as Russell and François sat this one out. 61.42 for Slash but the wind was non-legal chiz. Wiebke Magers narrowly failed to cop a 50 mph Hat in Wild Bill Thornton's Milan RS. Again. 49.84 mph. Ethan Elbaz binned Eta Prime at V > 60 mph a mile and a half from timing; rider OK, bike somewhat beaten up but the Toronto PSO's reckon it fixable. Possibly not by this evening thobut.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 September 2025 at 4:41am
	Reports of Eta Prime's fixability may be exaggerated. No wind-legal runs at all Friday pm with François deciding not to run just as the team was about to pop the lid on and send him down the road. In spite of the wind Russ banged in a 74.63 and Slash a 57.76. David van Erd in Orange Bullet equalled his fastest run from last year - 70.32 mph. Both Erin and Claire were just relieved to get Cyclone down the road unscathed. Nice gesture by the IUT Annecy team: Bottles of Fitou presented by chef d'equipe Guillaume de France (centre, in hi-viz) to the ~~Politburo~~ Organising Committee - Adam Hari, Arnold Ligtvoet, Marieke Ligtvoet, Joyce Lem, Larry Lem, Calvin Moes, Jun Nogami.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 September 2025 at 10:01pm
	Confirm that Eta Prime is out for the duration; Ethan says that even if they could get it back on the road he'd not improve his PB from last year so Toronto are concentrating on Cyclone for the final day. Rubbish wind to start with until Harrison Walker's run in the fourth heat which earned him a 55 mph Hat with a 57.34. Better for the final set: 88.07 for François, 76.11 for Russ and 50.42 and a Hat for Wiebke in Wild Bill's Milan RS. Only David let the side down with his personal best 72.94 being the only run with Bad Wind. Roadkill antelope at the five mile marker. Clearing dead things off the road is above my pay grade but some of my fellow volunteers got a rope round the carcass and dragged it into the brush for the circling vautour to have for lunch. Morning debrief delayed as some of the crew attempted to rescue a cow from the muddy pond near catch, resulting in Battle Mountain Mike Engel's truck falling in a ditch. Bad swears as Arnold Ligtvoet and Cobus Burger failed to extract him but the rancher came by and got him out eventually. Cow rescued successfully. One more session...
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 September 2025 at 7:40am
	No new World Record chiz. François ran early when it’s warmer but there was Evil Wind and he only did 74.98. Another wind-legal V > 75 mph by Russ, a bangin' 76.75 by Guillaume after Bill Thornton sportingly gave up his starting spot and Slash rounded off the week with his best run; 63.58 mph, wind-legal. Bedtime.
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legs_larry Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 09 March 2005 Location: London Town Devine Status: Offline Points: 1554	Post Options Post Reply Quote legs_larry Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 September 2025 at 11:33am
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