2023-08-27 BHPC Darley Moor - 40mins in Snoopy streamliner (un-edited). Last lap battle with Liam G

BHPC race at the Darley Moor cicuit in Derbyshire. I'm in my Snoopy streamliner, mainly racing Liam Goodman (Notso), Steve Slade (Beano) and Lee Wakefield (Snoek). I came 3rd.
Results were:
1 1 SLADE, Steve Beano 42:56 29.35mph
2 36 GOODMAN, Liam Notso 43:31 28.95mph
3 13 BRIDGE, Russell Snoopy 43:32 28.94mph
4 2 WAKEFIELD, Lee Snoek 45:18 27.81mph
Full results here: www2.bhpc.org....

[@Kate-lz7jq]

This is my favourite streamliner vid on youtube haha. Really makes you want to try it out

[@velo-ads4206]

Good effort Russ, I even got butterflies on the start line.

[@MarcoRuga]

Great video!

[@GadgetyMV]

Great to watch and see not only the racing line and speed, but also the human engine revs and output. Lactic acid threshold at bay. It had me make a comparison to F1, then I realized it's more like Le Mans with so many types of vehicles, and probably engine sizes, in the same race.

[@yanto63]

Love watching the racing vids, cranking it over on the bends always gives me the jitters. Liam played you. You know what to do in future, let Liam take the lead.

[@mikemowett7401]

Only a moment to see your landing gear left up, then bam, you’re off!

[@larrylem3582]

Woolrich bike looks like an Ocean Sunfish

[@SuperPathfinder10]

Well done. What is the waight of this machine?

[@robbyg3989]

Great video Russel thanks for posting. Was wondering about Snoopy, what would you change if anything?

[@russellbridge]

A better engine :)
It’s running well now, slightly too heavy at circa 25kgs but it’d need a full shell rebuild to get it down to 17-18kgs ish, and maybe a custom (thinner) bottom bracket to get the pedal box smaller and make the front a bit smaller.

[@robbyg3989]

@@russellbridge I think it's an amazing build, and clearly we are all excited to see you do well. Just from watching the videos, Snoopy's chassis looks really stiff and possibly able to handle all the torque you can throw at it. Congrats so far and best of luck next race!

[@Alan_Hans__]

Is the gearing on the bike a bit low? At higher speed you seem to be absolutely thrashing around like you've ran out of gears.
Congrats on a third. I was "expecting" a first with your nice slippery bike.

[@russellbridge]

They're short 145mm cranks, so they work best with a higher cadence - I'm normally around 95-105 rpm's at race pace.

[@ethicworld9552]

I think 3 wheelers are more aerodynamic than 2 wheelers ? I mean, low and wide is better than tall and thin ? What do you think (experiment) ?