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Team Cygnus has developed a fully faired recumbent bicycle that can compete with the fastest recumbents in the world. The main goal is to use an optimum man-machine combination to break world records. The Cygnus team consists of technical specialists from various disciplines. Between them they have many years of experience with fully faired recumbents both in racing and in designing. All Cygnus team members are racers at the highest level. Every year they compete in national and international competitions such as Battle Mountain, the European Championship, the World Championship, and the Michigan Human Powered Speed Challenge, but they also attempt to break records on the tracks of RDW, DEKRA and Opel.

zaterdag 19 september 2015

Saturday morning

We took our rest this morning and did not head out for the 305. Instead we are back to sanding the bike and getting it ready for tonights run. Cygnus Chronos will be sporting some more red spots tonight.

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vrijdag 18 september 2015

Friday evening runs

Jan-Marcel was the second bike in the third heat this night, right after Damjan,  and before Ellen and Florian. It took a bit of time between the second and third heat, because of a midway catch in the second heat. The sun had already set, and the temperatures were dropping.

That was not the only thing that dropped. We decked the bike twice before we got Jan-Marcel started properly. He did a nice run, came out of the bike all cramped. It took a bit of time before he could step out of it.

At catch we heard that Todd in the first run of the first heat had beat his own world record, he went overe 86 mph! Way to go Todd!

The actual speed is measured at 86.50 mph.

Jan-Marcel reached 76.24 mph / 122.7 kph.

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Friday afternoon

First we went to the riders meeting for the distribution of the runs this evening and tomorrow morning.

In the afternoon there will be drag races near the High School, organized by Robert Barnett.

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Friday morning

We are sanding the bike and getting everything ready for the evening run.

We think that Jun must be looking for our missing 25%.

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donderdag 17 september 2015

Thursday evening run

Jan-Marcel was in the third heat tonight, after Todd, Damjan and before Ellen in the trike. We tried to start him nicely, but decked him. Looks like we will have some sanding to do tomorrow.

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Thursday afternoon

This morning we were on a tour at the Newmont Phoenix Mine, which is located off the 305. We recieved a vial with some gold flakes. The mine has a height difference from top to bottom of about 400 meters. Enormous dump trucks with tires as hight as 3,5 meters drive around. Impressive to see.

We are getting the bike ready for tonight. The brakes have been taken care of, they were a bit loud yesterday evening. And some sanding. We practiced starts at the parking lot of the hotel on Sunday and dropped the bike once.

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Thursday morning: Congratulations Todd!

This morning Todd Reichert set the new world record to 85.71 mph! Well done!

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