BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Tokyo 2020 Track Bicycle - Tony Purnell\, British Cycling - To
 ny Purnell
DTSTART:20220630T180000Z
DTEND:20220630T190000Z
UID:TALK176009@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:David Blake
DESCRIPTION:Tony Purnell\, former Head of Technology at British Cycling\, 
 will talk about how engineering helped Great Britain top the cycling medal
  table at the Tokyo Olympics.\nProfessor Tony Purnell FREng\, FRSA was the
  Head of Technical Development at British Cycling\, where he worked across
  all aspects of technology – from improving data analysis to assisting t
 he coaches with the development of organisational software and tools to op
 timise rider performance. Tony Purnell is Visiting Professor at Cambridge 
 University Engineering Department\, and a Fellow-Commoner in Engineering a
 t Trinity Hall Cambridge. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Manchester 
 University and a masters the MIT Sloan School of Management. His dissertat
 ion was on Formula One aerodynamics. He founded Pi Research\, was principa
 l of the Jaguar and Red Bull Formula One teams and a technical consultant 
 to the FIA and IndyCar Series.\nThe Team GB track bicycle for the Tokyo 20
 20 caused a stir on its announcement. It's wide forks and unusual titanium
 -carbon frame were a radical departure from convention. With the onset of 
 the pandemic and delay to the Olympics\, it would take another eighteen mo
 nths for the world to see the results.\nAmong other accomplishments in a p
 rolific career\, Tony Purnell was Technical Director of British Cycling an
 d responsible for the design of the 2020 bike. In this talk he will share 
 some of the revolutionary features and technical challenges that enabled t
 he team's success. Reflecting on the development of this bike and some oth
 er innovations he has been responsible for\, Tony will ask the question 
 ‘Can innovation be forced?\n\nThis is a joint event organised by the Ins
 titution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Mechan
 ical Engineering (IMechE).
LOCATION:CUED LT0
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR