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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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Dutch Bike Bits

Saturday, 02 October 2010 10:38

There is a new online source for your cycling needs — Dutch Bike Bits. It was started just recently by someone who is probably quite familiar to you in several other contexts… David Hembrow. He is the author of the must-read blog A view from the cycle path. He is also makes baskets in the [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/10/02/dutch-bike-bits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dutch-bike-bits
 

Looxcie (pronounced Look – See)

Friday, 01 October 2010 17:45

This smart looking camera/bluetooth combination will hook over your ear (it weighs less than an ounce) and will allow you to shoot video of everything you see and share it (to social network video sites, etc.) usung an app on your smartphone. Here are the specs from the Looxcie site at www.looxcie.com: Wearable Weighs less [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/10/01/looxcie-pronounced-look-see/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looxcie-pronounced-look-see
   

September 10 Top Visits

Friday, 01 October 2010 05:46

September is over and it was an interesting month… first time we’ve had over 25,000 unique visitors or over 70,000 individual visits. Here are the things that seemed to catch your interest… based purely on visit counts, and of course some articles had more of the month to accumulate visits. Still, an interesting look at [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/10/01/september-10-top-visits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=september-10-top-visits
 

The Short Story of Peter Heal’s trip “AroundOz”

Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:34

Remember following Peter Heal (Poit) on his epic ride AroundOz? Got a message from himself today saying: “I haven’t got around to putting down a full day by day story of the trip as yet. May do that on Crazy Guy On A Bike (fitting) at some stage. I wrote a short article for AUDAX [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/09/30/the-short-story-of-peter-heals-trip-aroundoz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-short-story-of-peter-heals-trip-aroundoz
   

Cuatriciclo…Vier-Rad auf Rädern…Quadricycle

Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:11

I love my hobby… today I have corresponded with two Frenchmen, a Dane, a German, a Dutchman, an Australian, a Spaniard, several Americans, and I tracked down the Facebook account of a friend in Mexico. I sometimes feel that this Recumbent United Nations! My Mexican friend, “Dr. T”, sent a URL to this quadricycle which [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/09/30/cuatriciclo-vier-rad-auf-radern-quadricycle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuatriciclo-vier-rad-auf-radern-quadricycle
 

Jean d’Avignon

Thursday, 30 September 2010 10:33

We got an unexpected email from Jean d’Avignonthis morning saying: “I’ve recently noticed that you published on september 8 my “city recumbent” which was on the shortlist for the “Seoul cycle design competition 2010″ (we sure did – see seoul-cycle-design-competition-2010-city-recumbent). I’d like to share with you my other submission (accessories section) which wasn’t shortlisted or [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/09/30/jean-davignon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jean-davignon
   

Arts and crafts

Thursday, 30 September 2010 04:02

In praise of steel and silk and upright riding, tips on photography and a tower of pedal power. (posted 30 September 2010)

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Source: http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=1134
 

Four, three, two and no wheels

Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:41

A round up of unusual bikes, including articulation, crime prevention, climate control, odd sized wheels and laundry! (posted 30 September 2010)

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Source: http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=1133
   

And All That Jazz…

Thursday, 30 September 2010 01:00

This note arrived yesterday afternoon… Please see attached press release and photo for more information about the latest product from REVERSE GEAR – the Jazzed Little Red Tricycle. The new jersey is now available on our website: www.reversegearinc.com We hope the trike riders in the world like it ;o) – and others too… We think [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/09/30/and-all-that-jazz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=and-all-that-jazz
 

“LINE-GO – A Linear Driven HPV Design Family”

Wednesday, 29 September 2010 08:39

Humor me… I am on a bit of a research kick. I got thinking about how much I don’t know about linear drives. So… I went hunting and turned up this really informative paper by Anders Brage of Sweden. Anders Brage has a Masters degree in material science and engineering and works with composite material [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/09/29/line-go-a-linear-driven-hpv-design-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=line-go-a-linear-driven-hpv-design-family
   

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