Friday, March 16, 2012
Street Luge Racing - Let's talk about serious street luge racing
Let's talk about serious street luge racing. Does anyone have any questions about street luge racing? I'm wide open and willing to answer your questions. Check out one of my latest videos at STREETLUGEHOME on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/streetlugehome?feature=mhum
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Bob Pereyra, The Godfather of Street Luge
Bob Pereyra Street Luge Professional
Street Luge Fact Sheet
€ Street Luge is a hybrid non-motorized sport combining state of the art auto racing engineering with ice luge racing techniques.
€ The Road Racers¹ Association for International Luge (R.A.I.L., Inc.) founded in 1990, as the premiere international sanctioning body for the sport.
€ Events can be held on closed mountain roads, ski resort access roads, graded race tracks and closed urban hill roads.
€ A professional luge ³Sled² consists of: 6061 T6 aluminum chassis, or light weight steel, custom seat, foot pegs, handles, lean activated steering, and custom urethane wheels. Luge pilot safety equipment consists of DOT or Snell approved full face helmet, full body racing leathers, gloves and high top, rubber soled athletic shoes.
€ Course lengths range from one to twelve miles in length and must have a minimum grade of 6%.
€ The current Guinness Book Speed Record is 81.28 Mph. However pilots have been unofficially clocked at over 85 miles per hour.
€ Braking and stopping is simply executed by applying shoes to pavement. A Luge Road Racing pilot can come to a complete stop from 70 miles per hour in the length of a telephone pole or less.
€ There are currently two classes of pilots; amateur and professional. Event classes are based on association points ranking. Pro racers must be at least 18 years old to compete in sanctioned events.
€ RAIL maintains strict safety and conduct codes that call for automatic suspension or dismissal for unsafe racing and known substance abuse.
€ RAIL currently recognizes 300 racing members.
€ The established core audience of Luge Road Racing comes from automobile racing, motorcycle racing, go cart racing, Mtn bikes, BMX enthusiast, as well as snowboarding, skateboarding, and in-line skating participants. The primary audience demographic is 14-40 and is estimated to be roughly 9.5 million persons in the U.S.
€ RAIL has established a production oriented racing team, especially selected for their incredible ability to produce, film, and perform the sport of luge.
€ The team is equipped with custom rigging devices, and excel in the use of P.O.V. camera equipment, and development.
Personal Biography
Bob Pereyra and RAIL - A Brief Biography
Many have taken credit as pioneers of the sport of Street Luge. Who was really the first may never be known. But without question, when the terms pioneer and one of the fastest are used, Bob Pereyra¹s name is always mentioned.
Bob began in racing as a young natural, designing cars as child with no formal training and restoring cars by the age of 15. At this same time he learned machinist skills that landed him his first machine and restoration job with Lotus West Sports Cars. Simultaneously, he was involved in the early years of skate boarding, developing his skills with the internationally recognized skateboarders.
His motor sport career began at age 15 as a cart racer. He would later be hired by the Garvin Brown Formula Atlantic Racing Team, as a crew member for Danny Sullivan/Michael Andretti. That experience led Bob to a 2-year position as a Race Driving Instructor assistant at the CBR Racing Schools.
Frustrated with auto racing, Bob reentered racing again as a competitor, this time as a sanctioned motorcycle road racer. Bob left motorcycle racing forever following the tragic death of his brother in a street cycle accident. Bob has been involved with Street Luge for over twenty years as a pilot, designer, builder and sanctioning and safety activist. Bob is
president and founder of RAIL, the Road Racers Association for International Luge. RAIL was retained by ESPN to act as the Sanctioning and administrating organization for the Street Luge events during the 1995 and 1996 ESPN X Games.
Bob has successfully transitioned to Street Luge by applying his professional driving skills to develop his racing technique. Bob won the first Dual Street Luge competition at the inaugural 1995 ESPN Extreme Games, earning him the title of Extreme Games Champion. Bob later won the Silver
medal in the 1998 X Games, a Gold in the Planet X World Extremes In Australia, and again X Games champion in 2000. Bob is also one of only two participants to have competed in all 7 X Games Competitions. His knowledge of design has allowed him to make significant contributions in the technical
standards necessary to attract sport participation as well as critical recognition. Drawing on his background, Bob designed the LCG GroundWerks Chassis. Taking the industry by storm, this 1985 design continues to be the most sought after, and copied piece of Street Luge Racing Equipment to date.
Bob has also been a tenacious sport promoter, applying practical experience to drive home a message of credibility and legitimacy for Street Luge. He has done this by pushing the sport to any and all media that would listen, and even to those who wouldn't.
Bob¹s efforts with the media have begun to show reward. Not only is Street Luge one of the most popular sports, it also has become an incredible marketing tool. The extensive coverage of The X Games, and several Mountain Dew commercials brought the excitement of Street Luge to the home viewers.
In conjunction with television production companies, Bob developed the tools and rigging devices that capture the essence of Luge Racing on tape, or film. Bob has established a production oriented racing team, that were selected based on their ability to provide POV footage.
Bob is a believer and a leader in Street Luge. Many within the
international circle of Street Luge credit Bob with the lion¹s share of press and media coverage. One of the fastest Street Luge Racers in the world (unofficial speed record 87.00 MPH) Bob is also a tenacious publicist. Bob has the pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit that has finally put the sport of Street Luge into the public eye and into the International Racing
Sport books. Bob Pereyra is an inseparable and irreplaceable mainstay in the sport of Street Luge, today, tomorrow and into the future.
Many have taken credit as pioneers of the sport of Street Luge. Who was really the first may never be known. But without question, when the terms pioneer and one of the fastest are used, Bob Pereyra¹s name is always mentioned.
Bob began in racing as a young natural, designing cars as child with no formal training and restoring cars by the age of 15. At this same time he learned machinist skills that landed him his first machine and restoration job with Lotus West Sports Cars. Simultaneously, he was involved in the early years of skate boarding, developing his skills with the internationally recognized skateboarders.
His motor sport career began at age 15 as a cart racer. He would later be hired by the Garvin Brown Formula Atlantic Racing Team, as a crew member for Danny Sullivan/Michael Andretti. That experience led Bob to a 2-year position as a Race Driving Instructor assistant at the CBR Racing Schools.
Frustrated with auto racing, Bob reentered racing again as a competitor, this time as a sanctioned motorcycle road racer. Bob left motorcycle racing forever following the tragic death of his brother in a street cycle accident. Bob has been involved with Street Luge for over twenty years as a pilot, designer, builder and sanctioning and safety activist. Bob is
president and founder of RAIL, the Road Racers Association for International Luge. RAIL was retained by ESPN to act as the Sanctioning and administrating organization for the Street Luge events during the 1995 and 1996 ESPN X Games.
Bob has successfully transitioned to Street Luge by applying his professional driving skills to develop his racing technique. Bob won the first Dual Street Luge competition at the inaugural 1995 ESPN Extreme Games, earning him the title of Extreme Games Champion. Bob later won the Silver
medal in the 1998 X Games, a Gold in the Planet X World Extremes In Australia, and again X Games champion in 2000. Bob is also one of only two participants to have competed in all 7 X Games Competitions. His knowledge of design has allowed him to make significant contributions in the technical
standards necessary to attract sport participation as well as critical recognition. Drawing on his background, Bob designed the LCG GroundWerks Chassis. Taking the industry by storm, this 1985 design continues to be the most sought after, and copied piece of Street Luge Racing Equipment to date.
Bob has also been a tenacious sport promoter, applying practical experience to drive home a message of credibility and legitimacy for Street Luge. He has done this by pushing the sport to any and all media that would listen, and even to those who wouldn't.
Bob¹s efforts with the media have begun to show reward. Not only is Street Luge one of the most popular sports, it also has become an incredible marketing tool. The extensive coverage of The X Games, and several Mountain Dew commercials brought the excitement of Street Luge to the home viewers.
In conjunction with television production companies, Bob developed the tools and rigging devices that capture the essence of Luge Racing on tape, or film. Bob has established a production oriented racing team, that were selected based on their ability to provide POV footage.
Bob is a believer and a leader in Street Luge. Many within the
international circle of Street Luge credit Bob with the lion¹s share of press and media coverage. One of the fastest Street Luge Racers in the world (unofficial speed record 87.00 MPH) Bob is also a tenacious publicist. Bob has the pioneering and entrepreneurial spirit that has finally put the sport of Street Luge into the public eye and into the International Racing
Sport books. Bob Pereyra is an inseparable and irreplaceable mainstay in the sport of Street Luge, today, tomorrow and into the future.
Street Luge Fact Sheet
€ Street Luge is a hybrid non-motorized sport combining state of the art auto racing engineering with ice luge racing techniques.
€ The Road Racers¹ Association for International Luge (R.A.I.L., Inc.) founded in 1990, as the premiere international sanctioning body for the sport.
€ Events can be held on closed mountain roads, ski resort access roads, graded race tracks and closed urban hill roads.
€ A professional luge ³Sled² consists of: 6061 T6 aluminum chassis, or light weight steel, custom seat, foot pegs, handles, lean activated steering, and custom urethane wheels. Luge pilot safety equipment consists of DOT or Snell approved full face helmet, full body racing leathers, gloves and high top, rubber soled athletic shoes.
€ Course lengths range from one to twelve miles in length and must have a minimum grade of 6%.
€ The current Guinness Book Speed Record is 81.28 Mph. However pilots have been unofficially clocked at over 85 miles per hour.
€ Braking and stopping is simply executed by applying shoes to pavement. A Luge Road Racing pilot can come to a complete stop from 70 miles per hour in the length of a telephone pole or less.
€ There are currently two classes of pilots; amateur and professional. Event classes are based on association points ranking. Pro racers must be at least 18 years old to compete in sanctioned events.
€ RAIL maintains strict safety and conduct codes that call for automatic suspension or dismissal for unsafe racing and known substance abuse.
€ RAIL currently recognizes 300 racing members.
€ The established core audience of Luge Road Racing comes from automobile racing, motorcycle racing, go cart racing, Mtn bikes, BMX enthusiast, as well as snowboarding, skateboarding, and in-line skating participants. The primary audience demographic is 14-40 and is estimated to be roughly 9.5 million persons in the U.S.
€ RAIL has established a production oriented racing team, especially selected for their incredible ability to produce, film, and perform the sport of luge.
€ The team is equipped with custom rigging devices, and excel in the use of P.O.V. camera equipment, and development.
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