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Speaker 1: We've got a reminder this country does actually produce a

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Speaker 1: next generation of the bright and the brilliant. We've got

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Speaker 1: a group of engineering students who reckon. They've sit a

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Speaker 1: new New Zealand human powered land speed record. They've got

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Speaker 1: a three wheeler. It hit eighty two point six k's

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Speaker 1: entirely with Peodle pound now the record's expected to be

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Speaker 1: confirmed within a month. Digby Simons is an associate professor

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Speaker 1: at the University of Canterbury who's been working on all

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Speaker 1: of this and he's with us Digby morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: If it's eighty two point six, what's it beat the

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Speaker 1: old record by.

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends what you're looking at exactly. I was

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Speaker 2: just looking at up this morning. So Sam Dakin is

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Speaker 2: an Olympic cyclist and he's got the current flying two

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Speaker 2: hundred meter time trial record and his speed I think

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Speaker 2: is seventy six kilometers an hour if you work it out.

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Speaker 2: But that's an official UCI cycling record where you have

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Speaker 2: to ride an upright bicycle with a sort of diamond

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Speaker 2: frame configuration. But obviously Sam's an Olympic athlete, so this

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Speaker 2: is a different category of vehicles. This is where the

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Speaker 2: only only rule is that your human power only. But

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Speaker 2: other than that, there are no restrictions on what type

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Speaker 2: of position you ride in and whether you have a

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Speaker 2: firing around you.

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Speaker 1: So just to be fear, you've got what I would

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Speaker 1: loosely term a bullet shaped machine. IT'SO is it zero

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Speaker 1: or grunt? The bike should go first.

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely aerodynamics. So if you think about a standard bicycle,

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Speaker 2: and what's important is the most important is the drag area,

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Speaker 2: and a standard bicycle is probably about zero point two

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Speaker 2: meters squared for a drag area. This bike is down

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Speaker 2: around about nort point not three, So it's it's at

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Speaker 2: least five maybe six or even more times more aerodynamics.

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Speaker 1: Not point not three. Yeah, me are really good cars

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Speaker 1: two to two or two three or two four or

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Speaker 1: something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is obviously a much bigger vehicle. So what

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Speaker 2: that means is compared to a normal bike, you could

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Speaker 2: go at the same speed, but you don only need

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Speaker 2: a fifth or one sixth of the power, or if

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Speaker 2: you put in the same power, you could go almost

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Speaker 2: twice as fasts.

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Speaker 1: Like this makes university sound fun, doesn't it. It's like

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Speaker 1: you look forward to getting into this and doing something

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Speaker 1: fun like this.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, it's been a fantastic project and it so

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Speaker 2: this was done as by the final year project at

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Speaker 2: the University of Category Mechanical Engineering Department, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of our projects are students. Most of our projects are

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Speaker 2: students working on problems that come from companies, but some

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Speaker 2: of our projects are student led and the students addressing

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Speaker 2: a challenge that they set themselves. So this was an

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Speaker 2: example of that. The students wanted us beat the land

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Speaker 2: speed record.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, well, I wish you the very bad stone.

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Speaker 1: Well will Stone touch with you and when you get

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Speaker 1: a confirm that'll be fantastic. Look it up. By the way,

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Speaker 1: it's all at the University of Canterbury. It's a cool

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Speaker 1: looking machine and it's it's I don't know what you

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Speaker 1: do with it at the end of It's like those

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Speaker 1: school projects, you know, when you do a school project

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Speaker 1: and you thing's really cool until of course mum goes,

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Speaker 1: where do you think that's going?

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Speaker 3: And of course when do you just keep it as

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Speaker 3: your normal bike? I mean I could have done that

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Speaker 3: on a Friday when I was biking from Lymington to

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Speaker 3: Cambridge high right across Cambridge from Lymington. Yeah, with the

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Speaker 3: saxophone on the back, the school bag strapped on top

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Speaker 3: of that problem.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't have hitded in this thing.

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Speaker 3: And then a guitar strapped to my back as well.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. Too many musical instruments. So do you know

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Speaker 1: Arena Williams, she's into music.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I didn't cry about it. I just got on with

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Speaker 3: it and band practice started at eight am. I had

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Speaker 3: to be there.

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Speaker 1: I ate even in winter when it was cold. Did

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