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Kop Hill Climb Sunday 22nd September 2019
DIR By: GeoffM
Date: August 20, 2019, 5:25 am
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The entry for this event was full I appealed under the rare
vehicle route, I received the following email which gave me an
entry.
"Dear Geoff,
Sorry you needed to prompt me but I had been away.
We discussed your application at our last meeting and decided
that if more cyclekarts were road legal a small group might be
an attractive addition to our 2000 event.
This being so we thought that accepting your application this
year would enable us to see the car in action so we could assess
its suitability. Could you email me your registration number and
I will send out an invitation.
Obviously, this strategy depends on cyclekarts going through the
DVLA approval process. Perhaps if you think Kop is right for a
few cyclekarts and we want to pursue it some publicity at the
cyclekart end would help. Could we discuss at the event.
Regards
Bob Woodman
ps. Can my colleagues seek out Geoff's car to take a look . I
will send it up the hill just after a real "Wolseley Hornet".
For those that do not know cyclekarts are 0.7 scaled versions of
vintage cars based on a gokart."
(End of email)
Geoff continued:
Although not road legal I feel cyclekarts would be an asset in
the paddock area next year, either a static display or a small
demonstration circuit. This is a prestigious event and would be
great publicity for us, but the committee needs to be convinced,
your support on the day would be very much appreciated.
Cheers, Geoff
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Re: Kop Hill Climb Sunday 22nd September 2019
DIR By: Graham Hill
Date: August 20, 2019, 7:57 am
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Hi Geoff. That's great, we may get some visiting with you this
year and I'm sure a few of us would support you with a static
display next year.
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Re: Kop Hill Climb Sunday 22nd September 2019
DIR By: GeoffM
Date: September 23, 2019, 10:09 am
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Kop Hillclimb
The Hornet created a lot of interest and I did a couple of
interviews over the tannoy extolling the virtues of the CK
movement. then of course I had to put up the money following the
mouth bit.
We were two up with parts of hill one in four! so fingers were
crossed, but we just, just made it.
I realise that I dont fully understand how the CVT works the
revs were dropping and I thought that it was going to stall but
it kept going is this right or do I need a lower gear? I run at
6.5:1 at present
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Re: Kop Hill Climb Sunday 22nd September 2019
DIR By: GeoffM
Date: September 23, 2019, 10:13 am
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OH yes it rained a bit, cheers geoff
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Re: Kop Hill Climb Sunday 22nd September 2019
DIR By: StefanN
Date: September 23, 2019, 10:43 am
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I love the photos Geoff. I had the event in the diary but it
clashed with a Scout group event unfortunately. Well done on
getting 2 people up the hill!
I'm running on 7:1 for the main sprocket and you get upto x2.7
on top of that from the CVT. Changing the sprocket would
obviously help on hill climbs but in theory you can also tweak
the CVT. I've read about this and even been in contact with
Comet, but will only start actually trying things next week.
The torque "sensing" is done by the plastic ramps on the driven
pulley/sheave. The preload on the coil spring can be adjusted
by changing the hole (there are 3) the spring is anchored in and
Comet recommend doing this for different types of terrain - more
or less hilly. The other pulley has the engagement flyweights
and retaining springs. Changing the weights changes the
engagement RPM - so in theory you could tweak it to push the
engine nearer its peak torque at your target speed.
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