Onwards and upwards for the Stoke Soapbox Derby
Over the last few weeks we’ve been putting together our plans to build a cart. We entered our cart, “Kiln’ it” into the Redbull Soapbox Race . Redbull asked us, in 100 words or less, why should they pick us? How will we bring the design to life on the course? Our answer: We’re a bunch of hackers from the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent. We’ve got creativity in our blood. Not only does this pose the engineering challenge of being the fastest down the course, we recognise the challenge to strive to make it the most ridiculous looking thing you’ve ever seen travelling down a hill. We think we’ve nailed that with our ‘Killer Kiln’. Meet Kiln’ it… When they asked what materials we used, we said: Plywood, bike parts, steel; blood sweat and tears. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite make it in the running this year, they said: We went searching for white-knuckle drivers and we found them, by the thousand. The standard this year was higher than it has ever been and we’re sorry to say that you just missed the cut. There was very little to separate the wacky racers and our scrutin