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Message started by FlyingLaZBoy on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 6:25pm

Title: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by FlyingLaZBoy on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 6:25pm

Here's a nice website featuring Lesley and what her crew have been doing

http://cot-linux.tech.uh.edu/%7Elmgrimes/archives.html

Title: Re: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by aikigreg on Jul 2^nd, 2009, 10:40pm

Nice, Lesley! As you start getting more involved, I can put you in contact with some of the people who have worked on the designs for the streamliners that have broken the speed records and such. Garrie in particular is a wealth of knowledge.

Title: Re: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by UofHLesley on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 12:12pm

Thanks for the post about our website! We have been steadily working hard this summer and will continue. Here is an update on the recent status:

Over the past few weeks, we have carried out finite element analysis on our frame using ProMechanica to verify the design and ensure a safety factor of 4. On Monday, it was verified by our professor.

We acquired Danny Savitzky of Cycle Genius as an industry adviser, so we are thrilled to have him on-board for advise and design review. Already we are seeing the benefits of his involvement :)

Also, we have gotten in touch with Eric Bittner of Houston's Team Bent and U of H. He will hopefully be able to meet with the team soon to give more input.

RBENT's own Doug Davis met with our member, Cory, about two weeks ago and will be making a generous donation to the team of a Rotator Super 7 and nice trailer to carry it and our final design. We are still working out the details surrounding the trailer and hope to make a trip to the Dallas area again soon.

Wednesday, the team spent hours in the machine shop to make a frame mock-up out of PVC with plywood wheels. Everything worked out well with no major modifications. Very soon (hopefully next week) we will be ordering our Chromoly 4130 to have our frame complete in about a month or less.

We are still actively searching for sponsorship, but are having very little luck. We have contacted over 100 companies already and continue to search. So far we have received two monetary donations. Many seeds have been planted with companies like Mustage Engineering and ENSCO International, so hopefully we hear some good news back soon! If anyone has any suggestions on who to contact, what businesses might be interested in our project, and maybe an approach to take that would be very helpful.

Our most recent design can be found at www.teamrecumbent.com/design. The cargo storage and fairing are pictured to get a general design idea, but the details of these parts and the exact designs will be worked on after the frame, transmission, steering, brakes, etc. are worked out.

Thanks! We will continue to update the design page as we progress as well as other sections like the gallery, sponsors, and budget.

Everyone have a safe and happy 4th! :)

Lesley and Team Recumbent

Title: Re: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by UofHLesley on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 12:21pm

aikigreg wrote:

That would be great! We appreciate all of the input we can get. Also, there is another U of H team in the same senior design class as we that will be competing in the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge too next year. They are entering the single rider category, not the utility like us, so we will not be competing against each other. They plan on going a lot faster than our vehicle will, so I am sure they would like advise about streamliners as well! I believe they are going with a prone design though from last thing I heard. We have tried to convince them to go recumbent, but I don't think it worked.

Thanks!

Lesley

Title: Re: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by aikigreg on Jul 3^rd, 2009, 4:30pm

Obviously they could do with a keniesthiesiologist on the team. Bring prone will restrict their airway - it's been tried. But hey, it'll still be a fun project.

UofHLesley wrote:

[quote author=aikigreg link=1246577113/0#1 date=1246592430]Nice, Lesley! As you start getting more involved, I can put you in contact with some of the people who have worked on the designs for the streamliners that have broken the speed records and such. Garrie in particular is a wealth of knowledge.

Title: Re: Lesley and the UH gang
Post by UofHLesley on Sep 7^th, 2009, 10:40pm

Hey!

We were in an article for U of H's newspaper, The Daily Cougar, last week. If you would like to see it, the link is :http://www.thedailycougar.com/future-engineers-developing-cars-for-houstonians-1.1853341

We have been working really hard and are almost finished with our frame. This weekend we will have a display at the Tour de Cure in the sponsor area on sunday. Come by and see us if you are around :)

The team website is updated frequently, so check it out when you can. it's www.teamrecumbent.com we have recent pictures of the progress and design there.

Thanks!