Showing posts with label velodrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label velodrome. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Lemme vent a moment, and advise you all to not trust dealerships until after you've checked their work

 what you see above, is either an innocent mistake by a professional dealership mechanic, who can't help but overfill my engine oil when I am on the 6th 1000 mile excessive oil consumption test, OR the stacking of the deck to prevent the accurate test result which will prove that for a 6th time that my car's engine is STILL in violation of the warranty 

now, I am so frustrated and mad that I am getting the run around, and results have already been faked on one test, and now this? 

It happens to be one quart from bottom L marking, to top F marking, AND by my estimation based on that distance, this is 1/3rd to 1/2 a quart overfull, which coincidentally, is possibly enough to cause the 1000 mile excessive oil consumption test, which, works against my proving the consistent and consecutive excessive oil loss that an engine under warranty is not allowed. 

faking the test result would (again, it's been faked once as a pass) call into question the valid claim I have to a repair that prevents oil being used at a ridiculous rate, 1.5 quarts per thousand miles, which is more oil disappearing per typical/normal oil change rate of once per 5 thousand miles, as that would be 7.5 quarts. 

See how bad this engine's oil problem is? It's unable to get from one oil change to the next without burning/losing/leaking more oil than the engine holds. 

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Henri Breau, 1926-28 when velodrome racing was a rally big deal, and the French vs Italian contest for national bragging rights of bicyclists was mighty important.



Races of one-hour and 100-mile contests were common in velodromes with steeply banked tracks to allow high-speed racing. After a flying start the cyclists link up with their pacers. Riding counterclockwise, passing can only be done on the right, a blue line separating the longer passing lane from the inner.

The pacer stands or sits upright on the motorcycle to offer a maximum windbreak, and the handlebars are extended to facilitate the stance, in a standardized leather suit that allows for the same slipstream effect for any rider.

Speeds of 62 mph have been reached, though the average is between 37–43 mph.

The first races were limited more by the speed a motorcycle could achieve than the ability of the rider to follow

Motorpace racing was glamorous but dangerous. Falls were common, largely because bicycle tires tended to burst at speed. The riders wore neither helmets nor gloves. They depended on fast reflexes, the rude health of youth, and luck.



Funny how less than a 100 years later, nothing exists to show where or what the big deal was. The velodromes are all gone, the pacer motorcycles are all gone, and so are the bicycles they used to try and break the speed record.

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Velodrome d'Hiver, Paris, 1911


imagine what it would be like to be so excited to watch motorcycles race, for the first time ever, on an indoor board track, at the beginning of the motor age.

But this isn't a bunch of motorcycles for racing,  as NZ Carnerd pointed out:
They are cycle pacing machines. Note the style of the handlebars which keep the rider upright so he can provide a 'windshield' for the following cyclist.

The Velodrome d'Hiver (literally Winter Velodrome) and 'motor-paced racing' both have wiki pages.

Note the bikes have 'buckets' under the engines so that they don't drop oil on the wooden track, and the bikes have flat belt drive. A Google image search for 'pacing motorcycle' yields many interesting pictures but none I saw had the 'buckets' under the engines like those here.

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

interesting bunch of photography specific blogs out there powered by Tumbler, here's a couple interesting shots

This was a moment that was caught perfectly, pilot in the plane, rescue person on the way up the tree http://t-s-k-b.tumblr.com/
I can't get the link to this source, it was H Edge .Tumbler.com yeah, just try to find it when you need it, right?
above via: http://cyclop.tumblr.com/ a site dedicated to bicycles

I posted the velodrome shot because it's a moment of history when it mattered to a lot of people to be there for bike races, either to be fans, or spectators. Just put velodromes and biek racing right up there with pole sitting, listening to radio shows, musical movies, and the other kooky things America was hooked on for entertainment

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Lost to yesteryear, only known to us by photographs

It was called an Auto wash bowl (right there in the photo) and probably existed until the modern car wash idea. this photo is in Chicago, 1924... and they probably used this method to get the horse crap off the bottom of the cars is my best guess


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1916 Chevrolet board track racer at the velodrome. You've probably never heard of a velodrome, or board track racing. Both were made obsolete when modern paving was invented.