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Roll out video of the VeloX

BentBlogger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:36:16 +0000

The students team of the Technical University Delft, Netherlands, which aims for building the fastest bike on earth, just released a very nice video. Among others, they are supported by Alligt and RaptoBike.

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Open Day at HP Velotechnik

BentBlogger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:14:38 +0000

If you want to have a look at Germany’s leading recumbent manufacturer’s headquarter – here is your chance. HP-Velotechnik will have an Open-Day on 6th of August 2011.

Between 11:00 and 18:00 you can have a look into the development office and the manufacturing hall and test ride lots of models outside.

Tom Richter, who circumvented [...]

M5 M-Racer now available

BentBlogger — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:16:48 +0000

As published back in October, M5 is coming up with a new racing bike – the M-Racer. According to the M5-website, ist weighs 13.2kg with 622 rear- and 559 front wheel. Using carbon fork and seat, the weight can be reduced to 12.4kg.

The wheelbase is 125cm and the seat height 39cm. You can also [...]

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 [...]

Spezi2011: Who is showing what – Part 1

BentBlogger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:41:30 +0000

The Special Bikes Show, or Spezi (abbreviation for the German word Spezialradmesse), is the biggest and most important fair for the European recumbent scene. What started as an idea of a bike shop owner in Germersheim 15 years ago, now attracts visitors and exhibitors from all over the world. This years exhibitor with the [...]

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 [...]

RaptoBike Mid Racer listed for pre-order

BentBlogger — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:55:01 +0000

A lot of people were waiting for quite some time to get news about the Mid Racer. Some weeks ago, Arnold Ligtvoet, the head of RaptoBike told me that he was doing final work on the bike and that it would become available soon after the relaunch of his website.

Pre-order means, you can order a [...]

Dutch student team aiming for the 200m and 1h record

BentBlogger — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:42:02 +0000

In the past there had been quite some cooperations between the Technical University Delft and companies from the recumbent business. Currently there is a student team which wants to build the fastest bike on earth. They are supported by Raptobike, Alligt and Tacx and they also have a project website. Interesting for you: they are [...]

M-Racer: New M5-Bike

BentBlogger — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:37:58 +0000

I have not been able to write here for a long time. In the last weeks Rob’s recumbentblog.com or Jack’s ligfiets.net had already posted new things when I got aware of them. However, I am glad to tell you about a new bike today: The “M” Racer is the latest model of M5 Recumbents [...]

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 [...]