Recumbent Family Cycling
This is an amazing account of the annual (click here>> Human Powered Speed Championships at Battle Mountain.
Tanya Markhum is just amazing and quite modest about her incredible ride.
In 1979, Fast Freddy Markham her dad became the first person to exceed 50 mph on an unassisted bicycle. He was also the first over 60 mph. In 1986 Fast Freddy won the DuPont prize for speed exceeding
65 mph.
That bicycle, The Gold Rush, is now on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institute.Since Streamlined bikes have gone over
80mph!
This is part one of three.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIko6Qo6skE&feature=player_embedded#
Once you get to youtube you can find pt 2&3
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