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BIKE DESIGNERS MEETING vol.1: Drag race Tournament   There was a track for Drag race in the center of the meetingplace. We enjoyed
tense races competing in 0.01 seconds using the start signal, so called
"Xmas Tree" We had an exciting Drag Race tournament on July 18th
2004, the second day of this meeting. * Please check the results of the race. Detailed information is available on BIKE FUN PROJCT. |
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| STOCK CLASS |
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 STOCK CLASSRACE RESULT * Check photos and time records here. |
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 You can easily attend this stock class with your bike. You competed just
in 2 seconds and then you enjoy rest of the race and bike show. Three Yellow
lights flash every 0.5 seconds in turn for Stock Start, and it is easy
to understand. Many riders attend the race at the day. |
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Everybody seriously competed in the race. Even professional riders had
false starts and lost in prelims and so did many other riders. The final
race ended up with a false start.We consider it shows riders' seriousness
and it is one of advanced technique to make a competitor have a false start.
Not every fastest rider wins this race. Everybody has a chance to win.
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 Mr. Ouchi won and he was slightly serious. He got a special wind-bell colored
by Kadowaki and a special radio flyer with the cloud, our trademark, as
a prize. Congratulations!! We worried how he takes home this radio flyer,
however he enjoyed pulling it by bike. |
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| PRO CLASS |
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| PRO CLASS RACE RESULT * Check photos and time records here. |
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Pro class with Professional regulations, it makes you excited. Pro Start:
Start in 0.4 seconds after three yellow lights flash simultaneously. It
is very hard to catch the best moment for start, it needs the concentration
on the race and technique. Unrestricted regulations for tuning-up require
the attendance with super tuned machines.
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Thorough all races, we had many interesting scenes, such as, a rider concentrated
in the starting moment, threw his bike but stop smoothly at the goal line.
It was hard to know the best starting moment and to get the minimum reaction
time record of 0.04 seconds. We hope your new challenge and records of
Pro class next time.
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 Mr. Shuji Yamamoto won this Pro class. He also had the best reaction time in this class. He was the Japan Champion of BMX and confident of his start dash. He is great!!He got a special wind-bell colored by Kadowaki and chemicals for bike maintenance by Mizutani as a prize. Congratulations!! |
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 Wheel Junky Team got a special prize of Best dresser. They are recommended
unanimously because they understand the ideal of this drag race and show
it to us. They got a special wind-bell colored by Kadowaki and chemicals
for bike maintenance by Mizutani as a prize. |
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| POWER-ASSIST CLASS |
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| POWER ASSIST CLASS RACE RESULT * Check photos and time records here. |
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 This class is also unrestricted but we have only few riders and bikes.
Bikes have to be powered by man and there is no restriction of assist system.
However, it is too hard to prepare power-assisted machines only for this
race. Also, we feel that assisting too much is unfair. OGYAN from RINTENDO
won this class. He made a power assisted bike a trial for this exhibition,
and changed a little inside of the assist unit for this race. |
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 Chief Fujisawa, a staff of this Bikedesigners meeting, had a hyper-wind-assisting unit with his bike…It looks like just a fan. |
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| 0-4 is the best! |
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 We concluded this Drag race with no accident. This is almost first trial
and we managed. Thank you for coming and joining us. We once used flags and stopwatches and judged by our eyes. Off course it was fun. Now we have a great new electric system. Mr. Rou
(ROUDEN), an electric specialist, and other staffs didn't sleep 2 days & nights
and finally completed it. We keep updating this system for many events
and trust it because it has any big trouble during all races. Now we can
enjoy Drag race for bikes more than before. We had various races full of
ups and downs and expect this race will develop. We want to hold this 0-4
drag race for bikes in the future, please feel free for joining in our
race of 2 seconds. |
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special thanks ! Prize of Wind-bell & Radio Flyer: Kadowaki Coating Prize of Chemicals for bike maintenance: Mizutani Bicycle Photos: Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Shuji Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Inagaki |
