40th annual Michigan HPV Rally - June 7-8, 2025

The 40th annual Michigan Human Powered Vehicle Rally will take place June 7-8 at the Waterford Hills sports car racing track in Clarkston, on the grounds of the Oakland County Sportsmen's Club, the location since 1986.

Come see some unusual – and fast – 2- and 3-wheel cycles.  Spectators admitted free.

 

Classes for streamlined, unstreamlined cycles, tandems, women, youth and tricycles. 

Free camping available at track Friday after 5 p.m. ( a car event is scheduled to run until 5) and Saturday nights. (OCSC clubhouse open for dinner until 9 p.m.)

The rally is conducted using Human Powered Race America rules (go to www.recumbents.com, then under “recumbent racing,” click on “Human Powered Race America,” then on “racing rules,” which includes definition of classes – stock, streetliner, streamliner, tricycle, multi rider, women, junior. Note:  HPRA rules require all vehicles to have a mirror or mirrors enabling rear  vision to both sides. 

The track, on the grounds of the Oakland County Sportsmen’s Club, is  1.4 miles around, with nine turns and one hill. Sunday races use a shorter  course without the hill.

Entry fees (same as in 2024):  $30 for one day, $45 for two days. High  school & college teams, $40 for first vehicle and rider; $10 for each additional vehicle or rider.

40th anniversary T-shirts can be ordered until Sunday, May 18, with delivery and payment made at rally. Ordering information and prices are in the posting above this one. DEADLINE IS PAST

To register in advance, which saves time Saturday or Sunday morning, click here: 

Pre-registration for the 40th annual Michigan HPV Rally June 7-8th, 2025

Payment still made when checking in. Registration can be done at rally.

NOTE: We are NOT equipped to accept payment by credit or debit card, so please pay with cash or check. Checks will have to be made out to individual or individuals who paid for track rental, insurance, etc., up front, so please don't make out check prior to arrival.

 

Saturday, June 7:  Registration starts at 8.

ONE-HOUR TIME TRIALS: Separate races for faster & slower vehicles, starting at 9:30 (streamliners, street liners, other fast vehicles) & 11. 

Concession stand open for lunch, 11:30-1. NOTE: Every year we have to convince the concession stand operators  – Waterford Hills Road Racing and OCSC – there will be enough customers to make it worthwhile to operate the concession stand, so please plan to buy your lunch there, rather than bringing it or eating off site.

After lunch: HILL CLIMB / COAST-DOWN; riders start at bottom of hill and race up it one at a time. At top, they start coasting until they stop.

Then, standing start KILOMETER.

After kilometer event, we will have a one-lap memorial ride of silence to honor David "Doc" Pearson and Bill Frey, who died in the past year and did so much for HPV racing. 

If time and enough interest in afternoon, we might also conduct the urban transportation contest or tricycle  race or old-timers race.  

Trackside dinner Saturday evening, catered by Mark Berend, who has catered many of our Saturday evening dinners in the past. Cost will be $15.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m.- 12:30 approximately.  SPRINT (top speed) EVENT:  Racers start at top

of hill, pedal down it one at time, then timed over 200-foot stretch.  Then, ROAD RACES on short course, not including hill, usually faired classes in first race, 12 miles, then unfaired classes, 9 miles.

Then, awards ceremony.

Concession stand will NOT be open, however, OCSC clubhouse opens for lunch at noon.

We will need volunteers to help set up and run events, so please be prepared to help.

if you have questions, suggestions or comments, contact rally organizers Mike Mowett, mowett@aol.com, or Mike Eliasohn, mikethebike2325@comcast.net TO GET TO THE RALLY:  From I-75, get off at exit 91. Take M-15 south  to Dixie Hwy. (US-24). Turn left, continuing south about 1 mile and turn left  onto Waterford Road, then proceed to track. If coming from the west, take  U.S. 23 north (or south) to M-59 (Highland Road). Go east on M-59 to  Airport Road, then left (north) to US-24. Turn left, then immediately right onto Waterford Road. Go about a half-mile to track. CAMPING Free camping available overnight Friday and Saturday in the infield of the Waterford Hills track, starting at 6 p.m. Friday. Restrooms, showers and electrical hookups.  Oakland County Sportsmen's Club clubhouse open for dinner Friday until 9 p.m. STATE CAMPGROUNDS (www.michigan.gov/dnr, then click on "make a reservation. Highland Recreation Area, 5200 E. Highland Road (M-59), White Lake, 248-889-3750. Two miles east of Highland. Holly Recreation Area, 8100 Grange Road, Holly, 248-634-8811. Five miles east of Holly. Pontiac Lake Recreation Area, 7800 Gale Road, Waterford, 248-666-1020. Closest to Waterford Hills track, about 4 miles west. OAKLAND COUNTY:  Groveland Oaks County Park, 5990 Grange Hall  Road, Holly, northeast of Holly, 248-634-9811. HOTELS / MOTELS (with approximate distances/direction from Waterford  Hills track) Clarkston - Olde Mill Inn of Clarkston, 5835 Dixie Hwy., 248-623-0300. Across  Dixie Highway from Waterford Road leading to track. This is the closest motel  to the track. Hartland - Best Western of Hartland, 10087 Highland Road (M-59) at US-23,  810-632-7177, 61 rooms. About 18 miles west. Waterford – American Inn and Suites, 7076 Highland Road (M-59),  248-666-8555, 111 rooms. About 3 miles southwest. Waterford – Holiday Inn Express & Suites, 4350 Pontiac Lake Road,  248-674-3434, 83 rooms. About 7 miles southwest. Whitmore Lake - Days Inn, 9897 Main St. (off US-23, exit 53), 734-550-0105, 60 rooms. About 33 miles southwest.