KSR-May, 2006
February 17th, 2009
In 2006, RoadTrip America sponsored the Kinetic Sculpture Race. A three day event where human-powered sculptures compete by driving their creations over highways, rivers, sand dunes, and ocean. For a variety of reasons, our coverage was never published on RTA, but here are some of the highlights…
Day One, Launch, Slippery Slope and the infernal mosquito dunes
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- Start Line with Rutabega Queen
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- Safety Checks at Start
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- Complex Gearing
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- The crowd is getting huge
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- Ready! Set!…..
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- Go! And they are off!
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- Heading for turn one!
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- They are going 3-Wide!
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- Outriders and Bees?
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- Intriguing Design
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- Sliding on the Slippery Slope
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- Peddling is hard in sand
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- Pushing hard in the dunes
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- End of Day One
These 14 images were posted without any editing or resizing and I learned that I probably won’t do that again with this version. Not happy with the results. But not too bad for an automatic function. One thing I learned — you shouldn’t edit the gallery function in code (eg: changing 4 columns to 3) because it loses all of the captions. Arrrrgh. Still testing. What is your experience with this?
Wow! Talk about re-inventing the wheel.
It looks as though a great time was had by all and some great efforts put into creating these bizzare machines.
Dave.