Yes! I've been in contact with Felix who is keeping me informed. Lets wish Christian luck! (sort of....) :-) Cheers, Greg K Skype: adventuresofgreg ----------------------------------- WILL HE MAKE IT??? Follow Greg's progress as he builds a human powered vehicle to break the human powered 24 hour distance record of 1021.36 km. http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPVMain.html ................................... > -----Original Message----- > From: python-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:python-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jürgen Mages > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 12:33 PM > To: Python Mailinglist > Subject: [python] [OT] 24h record attempt > > > Watch out Greg: > > Christian Ascheberg will start his 24 hours HPV record > attempt on Tuesday 2006-02-21 13:00 CET at the Velodrom Berlin. > > Live reports (in german) can be found at > http://www.hpv.org/event/wr24/ The wooden indoor track has a lap length of 250 m. That means more than 4200 rounds for Christian if he wants to beat the 10 year old record from Axel Fehlau. Hard to imagine the mental and physical stress. I don´t know exactly what type of fully faired recumbent he will use but I reckon it will be the Bülk2: http://home.arcor.de/liegefix/Bilder/boxberg2005/Dscf0021%20Kopie.jpg Lets cross our fingers for him ... Jürgen. PS: Just found the information on the German Liegeradforum http://www.liegeradforum.de ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/python Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================ ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/python Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================