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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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M5 single speed lowracer

Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:41

This is a beautiful picture of M5 lowracer prepared for breaking a world one hour record. It is already some time since Aurélien Bonneteau broke it by 50,529 km on 15th May 2009 but we have found this picture right today and we think that it is really nice. Just to mention that Aurélien trained only [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbent-gallery.eu/m5-single-speed-lowracer/
 

I like your attitude…

Tuesday, 21 July 2009 05:17

Seth Godin, I like your attitude! On Seth Godin’s Blog you will find the following: Winning on the uphills Interesting business lesson learned on a bicycle: it’s very difficult to improve your performance on the downhills. I used to dread the uphill parts of my ride. On a recumbent bike, they’re particularly difficult. So I’d slog through, barely [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/21/i-like-your-attitude/
   

Couple of new world records

Tuesday, 21 July 2009 04:37

I think that you have already red about this unbelivable weekend in US. During the Ford Human Powered Challenge couple of new world records has been set up. For us, two are the most important and visible. Man and woman one hour record. Sam Whittingham (Canada) did 90,724 km Barbara Buatois (France) 82.235 km You can read more on [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbent-gallery.eu/couple-of-new-world-records/
 

“Recumbently” …all over the place…

Monday, 20 July 2009 15:10

Lars Reisberg (above) gets around… on a bike. Check out: www.recumbentlyportugal.blogspot.com A tour-blog of a 2-week recumbent-trip from Lisbon to Porto (In German) www.recumbentlysweden.blogspot.com A tour-blog of a 5-day-trip roadbike vs. recumbent from Hamburg to Gothenburg/sweden (In German) www.recumbentlycanada.blogspot.com A tour-blog of a 1.300 km-trip on the Trans-Canada highway from Calgary via Vancouver to Seattle, WA. (In German too) … and then there [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/recumbently-all-over-the-place/
   

News Flash

Monday, 20 July 2009 12:39

http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/news-flash/

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/news-flash/
 

Whittingham’s Blog & Ford Human Powered Speed Challenge

Monday, 20 July 2009 11:46

This is great “Two-fer”! Sam Whittingham’s blog is a real treat, appended to his commercial site “Naked Bicycles and Design”. A great read – go see it for yourself. Coincidently, and this is the second part of the “two-fer”, he has coverage of the Ford Human Powered Speed Challenge in Michigan. Check out: New World Hour Record: [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/whittinghams-blog-ford-human-powered-speed-challenge/
   

Tulio

Monday, 20 July 2009 06:39

“Pedro’s” – a bicycle care product supplier out of New England since 1989, has a new product. The TULIO – A Multi-tool built into a quick release skewer. It features: 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 mm hex wrenches No. 2 philips head screwdriver Chain tool 3.0 / 3.2 spoke wrenches Works with both 130mm and 135mm options (10mm [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/tulio/
 

“Five iPhone Apps That Replace Bike Hardware”

Monday, 20 July 2009 05:51

Well… I’ll give them two applications out of their five. WIRED Magazine also publishes “Wired.com/gadgetlab/“. Either/both the magazine and the website are on my favourite lists for sure. “Five iPhone Apps That Replace Bike Hardware” By Charlie Sorrel appeared on July 20, 2009. It shows five ways to replace existing bike gadgets with an iPhone; [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/20/five-iphone-apps-that-replace-bike-hardware/
   

The Little Engine that could…

Sunday, 19 July 2009 07:39

In the category of “Just For Fun” (JFF) this is a rather unusual conjoining of a Greenspeed and a miniature railroad, a rather small but powerful “engine”, and an unusual helmet style thrown in for good measure… [Thanks to Alexander Henshaw of Miniature Railway magazine for this] JFF…

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/19/the-little-engine-that-could/
 

Audioboo: Audio + Photo + Geo-tag = Bike Fun

Saturday, 18 July 2009 15:10

Audioboo just might draw me into getting an iPhone… Audioboo is a new’ish app that allows you to create “sound files” and “photo files”, both of which are geo-tagged, so that you can create a sort of hybrid podcast (with the audiofiles) and a map referenced tour that shows where the audio and/or photo files were [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2009/07/18/audioboo-audio-photo-geo-tag-fun/
   

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