I think it was understood that this wasn't your campaign.

I think most, if not all, of the online recumbent community was aware of Graeme's quest from the beginning. Graeme pretty much screwed up by the numbers. Hubris is the only reason I can think why he would reject all the advice from the HPV community and 'invent' a design that had been discarded 40 years ago as being too inefficient. Heck, he even got beat by a trike.