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10 years AZUB celebration during Czech recumbent meeting

Today I received an invitation from AZUB, which I’d like to tell you about. AZUB is going to be 10 years old and invites all AZUB-riders, friends and journalists to come to the czech recumbent meeting and celebrate for that reason. Read the message:

Schwalbe founder Ralf Bohle has died

 I received an information from the Schwalbe public relations office. Ralf Bohle, who founded the German tyre producing company Schwalbe, died. I offer his family my condolences. Find the press release after the break.

Next week-end: The Spezi 2010 without me:-(

It is less than a week. On 24th and 25th of April the most important show for everybody interested in recumbents, trikes, velomobiles, cargo-bikes, E-bikes,…, the Spezi, is taking place in Germersheim. Unfortunately, I will not be able to go there for professional and private reasons. I am really sad about that as I [...]

Trike Race 2010 at the Spezi in Germersheim – The European Cup for Recumbent Trike Riders

On Saturday 24th of April 2010 HP Velotechnik, Hasebikes and the Special Bikes Show in Germersheim host the biggest trike race in Europe.

In short racing runs of a couple of minutes, the fastest trike rider on the track in front of the Germersheim town hall, which includes a banked curve, jumps and a water [...]

Roll Over America – an Interview

You may have read already in the recumbentblog.com or in ligfiets.net. During a discussion on the Bentrideronline.com message board, a velomobilist, Josef Janning, expressed his wish to cross the USA in his VM. After a short while this has become the Roll Over America Tour (ROAM). The developments of the plans can be followed [...]

Velomobile Meeting in the Hessian Highlands

Bea (Cab-bike.com) posted in the Velomobilforum that there will be velomobile meeting in the Hessian Highlands this year.

Sometimes Comments are no comments – or not from the person you think they are

On 25th of January, I published a post about the new Alleweder 7. As a reaction on this post, a comment was sent which someone who called himself “Kaczy Marek” wrote:

I am proud of my design. This velomobile has been created in Poland. I spend a lot of time on redesigning “old” Alleweder into this [...]

Una Bella Macchina

Lars Reisberg spends a lot of time on his HP Velotechnik Speedmachine travelling with it. Now he felt like changing its look and as he liked the good old Bianchi-style in celeste and white, he started the operation “celebrating celeste“.

“It was never a dream to have our own business, we just wanted to build the Quest” an interview with velomobiel.nl’s Ymte Sijbrandij

If you read through forum posts, websites, blogs looking for information on velomobiles there is one name you stumble over again and again: Ymte Sijbrandij! Racing god and the velomobile person. BentBlog talked to him.

“It was not my aim to make everything different. It just happened.” – An Interview with Velayo Designer Marcus von der Wehl

After I asked him to send me some photos showing himself and his velomobile, he sent some and wrote: “On one of the photos, you can see my father, who never agreed to build a velomobile for me! As a result, I outsped him on the 20km we rode after the ‘photo shooting’ by 17 [...]