Team Bath Human-Powered

🚴‍♂️ Introducing Team Bath Human Powered

This weekend we took our low-rider to its first official race a big milestone for the team.

It was a proper learning experience. We built confidence lap by lap and started to see what the bike can do, but also quickly found the limits. Pushing harder in the second race led to a wobble we couldn’t recover from, ending in a crash and a DNF.

Frustrating in the moment, but part of the process.

We’ve come away with valuable insight into handling, stability, and rider control, along with great feedback from more experienced teams. Most importantly, it’s clear there’s real potential in the bike.

This was just the starting point now it’s about refining, improving, and coming back stronger.

More to come 🔧

We're thrilled to announce that Silverstone Composites is the primary sponsor for Team Bath Human-Powered! 🚴‍♂️ This year, we're partnering with an incredible competition team dedicated to designing, building, and racing a human-powered vehicle at the HPV World Championships. With the guidance and support of the team at SC, we're not just sponsors; we're hands-on in the manufacturing process, helping to push the limits of innovation and engineering. Get ready to see what we achieve together on the world stage! 🌍🏆

Team Bath Human-Powered are very excited to announce that we will be working closely with Silverstone Composites to manufacture the composite aspects of our design, including the fairing. Silverstone composites expertise include F1 composite components and we’re looking forward to learning from their insights over the coming months.

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! We are very excited to begin working with our official project sponsor who will be supporting us in a variety of ways throughout this project.
Over the next weeks we will give more hints to what our partnership will consist of
Keep an eye out for our stories for clues on who it might be...🤔

Check out the latest edition of the Laidback Cyclist where our story is featured!

Issue available by signing up to the BHPC here:
https://shop.bhpc.org.uk/membership-2024?fbclid=IwAR1uYC0S__1-FPyEvThD3Bol26dFlSdAEOKrvvKQdJOiMNFJhPf-DF3IvhU_aem_AbCHiWDN-56XmvBEW1ocXFGC_RER28tmkTsAPC1VvSw_Nm0EI5iLXvS4SBu9dvCoELSROJqWtMaknyHmmckwmcA9

Our gofundme is now live!!

We've already received some extremely generous donations that all go towards the performance of the bike and enable us to continue this project for as long as possible.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/team-bath-human-powered?member=33255255&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

The team recently headed up to Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub to meet with Vorteq Sports to discuss the aerodynamics associated with the fairing. Our technical Lead Adam completed a 12 month placement at Vorteq Sports, and introduced us to some of the team. Vorteq were kind enough to give us a tour of the wind tunnel and answer our questions which will be of great use as Adam begins working on CFD.

A massive thank you to Julian House Bike Workshop for supporting the team with some key components that we've incorporated into our Test Rig.

The Test Rig will be used to optimise the internal dimensions of the HPV. Follow us on our journey to the World Championships on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/teambathhumanpowered/