This shot arrived in my inbox recently. Anyone care to guess the year?
HPV heading to Fife.... by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
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First recorded HPV in Edinburgh?
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Posted 8 years ago #
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There was an HPV like that on the St Andrews run one year.
My guess is 1985
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1984? Later than 01/08/1982 based on the registration plate, but otherwise a guess!
Robert
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That's a great bit of HPV history. It must be 1982 or later, going by the car in the background. In Britain things kicked off around 1982 with the HPV Championships in Brighton.
Hard to read much on the side of the vehicle, but there was a machine called Dragonfly, fielded by the Glen Sprocket Team, though I don't know if it was a trike. The one in the pic certainly isn't the Vector.
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It's also before 1986, because by then the studs marking the cycle lane had been replaced by a white painted line.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Who's gonna bag 82 & 83 then?
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Aren't bicycles HPVs?
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^^^ what he said!
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan was probably the first HPV rider in Edinburgh!
"
HPV means 'Human Powered Vehicle'. This term includes all vehicles that are powered only by muscular-strength. The large area of HPV can be divided into many categories. The largest is the bicycle. But you can find HPVs in the air, in and under the water and also on the rail. Some HPVs are built for competition to get faster and faster, but other are for daily use, like the rickshaw in India. A real HPV can be powered by an electric engine, but the energy must come from a human powered generator. Electric bicycles with batteries onboard do not include to (sic) HPVs.
"(www.whpva.org)
"Q. What's an HPV?
A. It's a human powered vehicle. This can refer to a bicycle, a boat, a plane or anything else that moves solely by human power. HPVs are usually powered by bike pedals and chains, but anything from rowboats to roller-skates are HPVs.
"(www.recumbents.com)
Posted 8 years ago # -
Would each roller skate in a pair count as a separate HPV?
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