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If you're like us, you spend some of your day hitting all your favorite recumbent sites for the latest news. Admit it, you have 10 tabs open right now on a variety of different bike sites. Wouldn't it be great if there were just one page from which you could glimpse everything that's going on in the recumbent world?

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…You Get a Very Cool HPV

Monday, 12 October 2009 06:36

A recent Tree Hugger article asked, “What Happens When a Kayak Has Sex With a Velomobile?”.  The answer is in this article.  David Buchwaldek’s HEPAV is the slickest amphibious Human Powered Vehicle I’ve ever seen by a mile.  We’re a little late to the party on this one.  Recumbent Blog also mentioned it a week [...]

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Source: http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=2732
 

Finnish recumbent with shaft drive

Monday, 12 October 2009 03:53

Timo Sairi is finnish designer who has developed and built a recumbent with shaft drive. Here under you can find his comments and few pictures of his bike. “First of all let me tell you a litlle of my background. I am an architect and a furniture designer and I have been working with industrially manufactured [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbent-gallery.eu/finnish-recumbent-with-shaft-drive/
   

New Record – pending certification

Monday, 12 October 2009 02:00

Amazing ride (241 miles in 12 hours amazing)… amazing lady… amazing read. Get it all in her own words at Cruzbike.com Congratulations to Maria, Jim et al… Jim Artis over at Cycling Experiences put a lot of time and effort into covering the UCMA event → Cruzbike.com/ →

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/12/new-record-pending-certification/
 

Video: A tour… a Pino Tour Tandem… and a family.

Sunday, 11 October 2009 14:00

Fabulous video… thank you very much Jose. This video came to us from Europe in response to a question asked by a reader in Brazil and shows a bike made in Germany travelling, at least in part, through France. The only odd part of this is we’re starting to find this sort of thing quite a [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/11/video-a-tour-a-pino-tour-tandem-and-a-family/
   

Pedalite…

Sunday, 11 October 2009 02:00

The outflow of product from the London Cycle Show has begun: The folks at Pedalite have quite an array of products (pedal lights, toe clips, baglites and anklelites) and they are marrying bike lighting with solar power… eliminating all those pesky batteries, rechargeable or not. Way too many batteries end up in land-fills eventually; I see [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/11/pedalite/
 

A brighter idea…

Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:00

Everyone loves to talk about lights… at least they are one on my favorite add-ons in biking and probably one of the most critical. The days of a flickering incandescent bulb in a chrome case are pretty much gone or at least if you want really serious candlepower you can now get it! But… the newer [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/10/a-brighter-idea/
   

Road Guardian: Doesn’t work if you don’t use it…

Saturday, 10 October 2009 02:00

“Safe Cycling, LLC announced today the launch of www.RoadGuardian.com: the first Web site where bicyclists can report, mark and share the geo-locations of their cycling incidents and trouble spots worldwide. This is a free service.” This is reportedly a first and it is free… but it can only provide us with information if we all put [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/10/road-guardian-doesnt-work-if-you-dont-use-it/
 

Google: US Map update

Friday, 09 October 2009 09:00

The world of Google Maps is every changing and “The expansion of tracks and trails, Google says, will allow them to soon release bike directions on Google Maps.” This is very good news and the first time we have heard it “straight from the horse’s mouth” as it were… soon can’t be soon enough! There are MANY [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/09/google-us-map-update/
   

Headline of the Week

Friday, 09 October 2009 07:59

On September 18th we ran a post that we called “Sleek…” about the amphibious velobile being developed by David Buchwaldek (See the site of David Buchwaldek at Esoteric-david.eu for a bunch more videos and his nice photos of the build…) Our headline was ok… this one is better!

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/09/headline-of-the-week/
 

If you worry about being seen in traffic…

Friday, 09 October 2009 02:00

If you worry about being seen in traffic… and you REALLY want to stand out in the crowd, maybe you want one of these tandems… I think that third guy towards the back is SUPPOSED to have the ladder… Thanks to Nerdnirvana.org

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/10/09/if-you-worry-about-being-seen-in-traffic/
   

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