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Alleweder A8, Sunrider and a four-wheel vehicle. An interview with Leo Visscher and Dietrich Lohmeyer

BentBlogger — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:28:17 +0000

I had the great pleasure to interview Leo Visscher, the head of Alligt.nl and Dietrich Lohmeyer who is the boss of Akkurad.com.

BentBlog: Leo, with your company Alligt, you are producing all kinds of parts for recumbent bikes. Your most famous product surely is the Alleweder. How did it come that you took over the [...]

Job offer from HP Velotechnik

BentBlogger — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:37 +0000

For quite some time I have wanted to make an interview with the bosses of HP Velotechnik. Generally, they are willing to do this and I sent my question a while ago. Nowever, those two guys are working hard in their firm, so yet they could not answer my questions.

Now Paul hollants asked me [...]

Practice

BentBlogger — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:31:42 +0000

More than a year ago, I posted an article about a Danny MacAskill video. I headlined it “You cannot do everything with a recumbent” Now a new video shows that it took him several attempts as well. Nice footage.

Kamran and Maya will travel from Germany to Pakistan

BentBlogger — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:48:58 +0000

Happy New Year everybody! After quite some time without news on this blog, I come back to you with an interesting voyage which will be done by Kamran Ali, a professional coder who currently lives in Rostock, Germany. He and his HP Velotechnik StreetMachine GTe are going to Pakistan. A 10.500km ride!On a flight [...]

“RAAM is appealing to me” – an Interview with Christian von Ascheberg

BentBlogger — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:58:50 +0000

Since the beginning of August, Christian von Ascheberg holds the world record over 12h, 1000km and 24h in the fully faired class. Christian who was born in 1958 in Kassel, Germany now lives in Wolfenbüttel with his wife and his son. BentBlog talked to him.

BentBlog: Christian, first of all, congratulations fort he new 24h-record. [...]

Factory Visit: RaptoBike

BentBlogger — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:03:14 +0000

As I mentioned in my Optima-visit post, I have quite a lot to do in my feed-the-family-job. Therefore it became pretty quiet here on BentBlog.de Nevertheless, on our return from a four-day meeting in Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands) some weeks ago (yes, that long ago), I managed to plan the route in a way that I [...]

Factory Visit: Optima Cycles

BentBlogger — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:44:01 +0000

It became pretty quiet here on BentBlog.de. I have quite a lot to do in my feed-the-family-job. Nevertheless, sometimes this job is useful for my blog articles as well. When I returned from a four-day meeting in Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands) some weeks ago (yes, that long ago), I managed to plan the route in a way [...]

Open house at HP Velotechnik

BentBlogger — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:52:31 +0000

German manufacturer HP Velotechnik sent a press information regarding their open house day 2010. Apart from offering a view into their production and test rides, they also hired Tilmann Waldthaler and Lars Reisberg for talks. See the press release for more information:

Open day of recumbent bike manufacturer HP Velotechnik with talks by bike nomad [...]

Sysadm.in travelling to the North Cape

BentBlogger — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:35:23 +0000

Currently you have the chance to ride to the North Cape – virtually. Sysadm.in/by.bike/ lets you participate in his journey. He is blogging his experiences as often as possible. Additionally (usually a couple of times per day) he tweets about what currently happens. The Speedmachine-rider met the first elks already, heard that a German [...]

Factory Visit: Nazca-Ligfietsen

BentBlogger — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:34:27 +0000

Last Friday, I had the chance to visit Nazca-Ligfietsen, with only 20km detour as I was in the region anyway. The Nazca shop is situated in a tiny village (Nijeveen) in the North-West of the Netherlands. The address (Dorpsstraat 67) illustrates nicely that this is neither a glass and steel designed consume temple in [...]