Recumbents Carry out Nicely At Sebring Race – BionicOldGuy

This yr “Bike Sebring” was once more held on the Sebring Raceway in Florida. This has 6, 12, and 24 hour occasions across the speedway monitor, which is flat. Recumbents are anticipated to do nicely on one of these course, and they didn’t disappoint, successful a number of of the occasions outright. I’m on the mailing record of each high-quality recumbent makers within the US, Bacchetta, and Cruzbike, and bought the information from each these sources. Each Bacchetta and Cruzbike races had been on inventory bikes with no fairings.

From Dana Lieberman of Bacchetta -“Our greatest information of the week – Dominic Brownlow leads once more on his Bacchetta CA3.0 at Bike Seabring 2024! Racing within the 24 hour non-drafting/unsupported division (essentially the most difficult), he accomplished 389.9 miles within the 24 hours and took 1st place within the division. Total he was 4th place of all of the 24 hour racers and the second place recumbent. His mileage has certified him for Race Throughout America. Congratulations! Dominic is a veteran racer on his Bacchetta, inserting 1st on the Psycho 48 in 2022.”

Maria Parker at Cruzbike additionally despatched out a abstract, describing how nicely racers on Cruzbikes did. Her: race report is right here.

Full outcomes for the occasion are right here. Congratulations to my fellow recumbent riders (who’re as quick in actuality as I’m in my goals).