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Recumbent TV Episode 1 is out!

Friday, 25 February 2011 05:06

Congrats to Travis Prebble for putting together a great first episode of Recumbent TV. The 15 minute show has footage from Interbike, a review of the Lightning Phantom Quad and some amusing editing of the HPVelotechnik Gekko fx teaser video.

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Source: http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=4869
 

Time Out…

Sunday, 20 February 2011 11:52

In recent days, my good wife Penny has been faring rather poorly and we aren’t quite sure what is causing her problems… tests are ongoing. In order to devote my full attention to her I am going to have to call a “Time Out” on The Recumbent Blog for a while (not sure how long [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/20/time-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=time-out
   

Man of a Thousand Velomobiles…

Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:29

The “Man of the Thousand Faces” was Lon Chaney or James Cagney if you are an old movie buff. The Man of a Thousand Velomobiles is Wim Schermer, or a least he seems to be trying very hard to win that title! Go over to WimSchermer.blogspot.com and join me in salivating over his new lightweight [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/19/man-of-a-thousand-velomobiles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-of-a-thousand-velomobiles
 

Boris Frolov gives NuVinci 360 some company…

Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:08

“Boris Frolov, a Russian engineer and entrepreneur from the Moscow region, designed a continuously variable transmission for human-powered vehicles in May 2010. He patented the transmission, produced samples for testing and started a low-volume serial production in February 2011. The technical characteristics of Frolov’s CVT are the following: Weight: 2.0 kilos (NuVinci weighs 2.5 kilos) [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/19/boris-frolov-gives-nuvinci-360-some-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boris-frolov-gives-nuvinci-360-some-company
   

Trouble Originates with the… computer!

Saturday, 19 February 2011 05:44

Into every life a little virus must fall I suppose… we just got ours, and we have pretty much cleaned up the carnage but are taking this opportunity to fix a few other things that had slipped off the rails over the last year or so. So… there are 2,132 posts in the Archives. Have [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/19/trouble-originates-with-the-computer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trouble-originates-with-the-computer
 

2011 HPRA: February – Brian Piccolo Park

Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:30

The following information is all from the Calendar page at Recumbents.com 2011 HPRA Florida Challenge Saturday 2/26 and Sunday 2/27 at Brian Piccolo Park 9501 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida Come one, come all! First HPRA race of the 2011 season in sunny, balmy Florida! Combine a weekend of racing with a vacation, or vice [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/17/2011-hpra-february-brian-piccolo-park/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2011-hpra-february-brian-piccolo-park
   

Carbon Strada

Thursday, 17 February 2011 07:15

Quite a few of you are no doubt following the unfolding of the ROAM (Roll Over America) project at rolloveramerica.eu/. That event has spawned several blogs by some of the riders who are going to participate, detailing their preparations for the journey. One such blog is that of Maarten Heckman of Alphen aan den Rijn, [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/17/carbon-strada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=carbon-strada
 

Video: Raptobike Tilter

Thursday, 17 February 2011 05:58

The Raptobike Tilter saga continues this morning with this short video. I am a fan of the Raptobike and this tilter just raises my interest another notch… The video is up on Youtube.com → [Chris expands on his post at Bentblog.de on Ligfiets.net]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/17/video-raptobike-tilter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=video-raptobike-tilter
   

Oh..ooh… a Raptobike Tilter

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 17:30

[Click to Enlarge] This is very interesting. This just popped up this morning on the Facebook page of Raptobike. It immediately attracted a stream of comments including those who like to wrap this beauty in Coroplast and see just how fast she might go… See Raptobike on Facebook here → [This news spread like wildfire [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/16/oh-ooh-a-raptobike-tilter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oh-ooh-a-raptobike-tilter
 

Wind Explorer

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:44

The Getting Blown Across Australia post about the two-seater velomobile using wind-power has ended successfully 18 days later. Have a look at a really good article on the trip at Gizmag.com (even if they do call the velomobile a “car”)…

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2011/02/16/wind-explorer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wind-explorer
   

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