So, I want to start a school club

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This far ahead it could be done very cheaply by sourcing secondhand parts... I'd jump on Ebay and keep an eye on the local dump and hedgerows!

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AlanGoodman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Club Chairman Joined: 04 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 8036	Post Options Post Reply Quote AlanGoodman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2016 at 8:24am
	This far ahead it could be done very cheaply by sourcing secondhand parts... I'd jump on Ebay and keep an eye on the local dump and hedgerows!


atlas_shrugged Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 03 November 2014 Location: Cambs Status: Offline Points: 1025	Post Options Post Reply Quote atlas_shrugged Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2016 at 12:50pm
	Ethan, Buy a trike from a UK company like AVD or ICE Add a corex fairing Start racing - either with the Peddle Club or the BHPC See if you can get sponsorship from one of the many charities set up to help kids and sport - Branson has one. For advice you are welcome to come along to one of our BHPC races and speak to one of the many experts Regards Brian Trike UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCuJjOHoBs It is worth having a look at what they do in Australia. I believe these HPVs are based on a standard trike and then the pupils add their own fairings. This fairing could be made of corex which a few folks in BHPC have used to great effect. Have a look at Eric the half Bee he is a complete tearaway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGnsCOQ34s THIS IS IT! THE OFFICIAL 2015 AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL PEDAL PRIX VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrGrriMnYPc5FVgpK4VxnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBdUHxuiFc0

BarneyH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 02 May 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 439	Post Options Post Reply Quote BarneyH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2016 at 6:51pm
	Ethan A simple appeal to friends and family soon nets you quite a haul of part broken bikes and then you suddenly have a stock of things from which you can start designing. As a scout leader we wanted to make soap boxes and just a discussion in the pub at a leaders meeting between 6 of us netted 8 broken bikes including an identical pair of bmx's. The most important thing do though is to get along to a race meeting or two this summer take plenty of photos and possibly have a go yourself. With regard budget there are club racers who can testify to working of tens of pounds - my current project is called £18.92 for a reason - its going be renamed "27 quid" if it ever emerges from the garage as a two wheeled streamliner. Come along and meet us we may be mad but we don't bite. Barney

Ethan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Visitor (new) Joined: 05 September 2015 Location: Birmingham Status: Offline Points: 77	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ethan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2016 at 11:13am
	Some really good advice and some good links to look into, thanks! I would love to come to an event (and I am hoping to get a basic laidback familiarity with a speedmachine ... No, I laugh at the idea of racing), but at the moment very small children prevent me from doing much at all (visiting the shops 10 min from home is a major enterprise; also the reason why the speedmachine is still unridden a year after purchase) and I don't drive so can only make very local meets, which have already been and gone. For costing, I would rather ask for more than run out part way through the year. I had thought that I could start with a bmx and spend a few weeks (1 hour a week) developing different fairings and then testing them. As a physics teacher testing them out and scientifically comparing them is just as interesting to me as building or racing them ... But then I don't think the kids will agree.

AlanGoodman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Club Chairman Joined: 04 March 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 8036	Post Options Post Reply Quote AlanGoodman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 March 2016 at 11:56am
	The Pedal Car Club will be racing at Solihull in July which is in your neck of the woods I think? http://pedalcarracing.info/solihull/