A question on multitrack racing and records

Drilling back through the race results for the club (at least to 200), it seems that the race formats are primarily the longer duration type.  Do you guys ever run events to set 200m, 1km or one hour records/marks or that generally only happens at the worlds (or maybe not even there either)?

Though I can't say no such thing exists, I don't recall having seen a multitrack class at an HPV event outside the UK.

It seems that multitrack racing, and I mean stock trikes, is at a minimum in the UK.  It would be nice if all the big governing organizations got together and decided on some basic class name and definitions.  It'd make things easier, but I prefer "multitrack" to "trike".  I guess as more racers in each class show up, multitrack can be subdivided into velos and stock or superstock trikes instead of confusingly lumping them all together.  I have been to a few races where they required a minimum of 5 racers to establish their own class, do you guys do that for BHPC races too?  That might encourage more peopel on a stock triek to race if they know they don't have to compete with a Quest, etc.

Over here in the colonies, up here, there are more trikes than 2 wheelers, so they get/got raced at every event.  In the HPRA series, most of the racers seemed to gravitate toward 2 wheelers, but in the last couple years, there are more and more trike racers and every event has trike specific races now.  Velomobiles are still few and far between and they race either as a streamliner (if the rider's head is enclosed) or as superstreet if the head is exposed.  The race format seems to gravitate toward the smaller races too.  Maybe shorter individual races makes more variety and interest and makes the effort of going to a race more attractive?  It seems there are more 200m, 1km and shorter lap races, plus they all try to make them 2 day events to maximize racing for the effort of having to drive a few hundred km to go compete.  It's an aspect I particularly appreciate.

Edited by 25hz - 21 April 2009 at 1:29pm

25hz wrote: Can the better designed ones be competitive with trikes?

It raced at darley more a couple of years back - but with the old chassis - unfortunately we had also been playing with an idea with the bearings and so whilst fast in practice - ended up with the back axles with lots of drag.