Friday, 30 January 2009

Thursday, 29 January 2009

Right Brain Brewery - mo' info.

Entry $5, Messengers $1
Donations accepted at the door, look for the cute gal in the Hell Yes tee.

Note a change in gearing to 46x12.

Right Brain Sprint information

OK here's some stuff about Saturday Night at Right Brain Brewery.

Prizes....more prizes might be added, prize list might change before Saturday night.

Men’s Fastest Qualifying Time
Die cast GTO from Hagerty Insurance

Open Men
1st $50.00 Gift Certificate
Cuppa Joe Warehouse Lounge – Special menu right next door to Right Brain
2nd Squirt Lube
3rd Austin Calendar

Men over 50
1st $50.00 Gift Certificate
Trattoria Stella – Italian Dining - in the Mercato at Grand Traverse Commons
2nd Squirt Lube
3rd Austin Calendar

Men’s Finals
Fastest Three Men's times from the evening
Prizes: TBD

Men’s Beer Keg Race
3rd place finishers from the Preliminaries
Hagerty Mustang

Fastest Woman Qualifying Time
$50.00 Gift Certificate
Silvertree Deli – Wine, food, more - in the Mercato at Grand Traverse Commons

Open Women
1st $75.00 Gift Certificate Boutique ala Vie – Dawn Campbell’s shop in the Mercato at Grand Traverse Commons
2nd Squirt Lube
3rd Austin Calendar

Women over 50
1st $50.00 Gift Certificate
Gallery Fifty – Christie Minervini - in the Mercato at Grand Traverse Commons
2nd Squirt Lube
3rd Austin Calendar

Women’s Finals
Fastest Three Women's times from the evening.
Prizes: TBD

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Event order:

Starting at 7pm sharp.

All riders ride a qualifying heat, 3 rider groups are in the order of sign-up, individual placings in the qualifier doesn't matter, only your time matters.

Riders are grouped into the classes and preliminaries are seeded based on qualifying times: ie if there are 12 riders in a group there would be 4 heats with the first heat having riders who qualified 1, 5, 9, the second heat with riders 2,6,10, etc.

Winners advance to the semi-finals where the same seeding order is followed.

Winners from the semi-finals advance to the finals in each group.

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

First full trials of equip, timing, and software




Monday evening we did our first full trials with three bikes, the sensors connected, laptop and projector all cookin'.






Here's a photo of three bikes, we're using three roller rigs, but we've got four bikes....a 53, a 55, and two 57s (center to center) and all have 400mm seatposts so we'll be able to fit everyone except Leonard Zinn.

Special thanks to the following equipment sponsors....
* Alien track frames - finish by Powdercoat Studio
* Velocity wheels - DeepVs with Chozen hubs
* Pake cranksets, Izumi track chains, Soma saddles and cogs, Soma toeclips, and Pake straps.
* Continental UltraSport Hometrainer tires and tubes.
* Bars, stems, tape, pedals from the parts bin.

Thanks to Kreitler Rollers for their help / To Evar Farrar and the guys at Open Sprints / to Brandon Worden and Chris Oliver for getting Linux on our laptop, and making the software run.
See you at Right Brain Brewery on the 31st.

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