Handcar Regatta

The Chop's Teen Center "steampunk" contraption was a collaborative effort between designer extraordinares and teen punksters!

It is part traditional with its coal black patina and part rock star with copper, glitter and kinetic sculpture. All devices are recycled and all ideas are original.

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The Krank-Boom-Clank crew building the "Hennepin Crawler", comprised largely of discarded lawn furniture, VW Bug parts, and old bikes among other bits too numerous to mention.

The Crawler represents a desire to meld alternative transportation innovation, human-powered kinetic sculpture, recycling of disparate pieces of functional garbage, and the prankster's notion of absurdity and bewilderment on an unsuspecting public.

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Powered by levered arm/freewheel bike gears attached to a surfboard that pumps up and down for smooth futuristic down the line action.

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The Strong Men of Santa Rosa plan to crush the competition in their hamster wheel of fiery fixed-gear ruination! Website. (Photos by Kristin Costill)

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Captained by last year's Zephyr trophy winner, Andy Graham will be "...harnessing the power of the wind, the Screaming Vortex is the future of personal rail transport. Watch in awe as four crew members power two giant, counter-rotating turbine fans at screaming velocities, thrusting them not only to the finish line, but to the future itself." — Andrew McIntosh Graham, 1867
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A scale replica of a handcar that would have been in use 100 years ago.

Witness a brief motion picture of the trolley on rails.

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After somewhat (in their minds) conquering the rails of Santa Rosa with the cumbersome 2008's "Tandemonium," team members Klaus A Rappensperger, Neil Espenship, Joey Castor, & Joshua Thwaites decided to embark on a streamlined version of their previous machination with the pretext of beating the jodhpurs off the competition at the next Handcar Regatta.

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Built by the Brothers of Benedict Joseph Labre. Hobo collective to roll their steel hog through Santa Rosa: Kid Skid, Nedder Weevil, Stewball, Clown and De-lay.

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A giant contraption based on a penny farthing bicycle.

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Quoth Mr. W. Wonka: "The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last."

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