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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Roll Over America – an Interview

BentBlogger — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:38:50 +0000

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 [...]

Driving Mango 211 from Groningen (NL) to Riegersburg (AT)

BentBlogger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:44:10 +0000

Some days ago, I read a post on the velomobilforum.de in which an Austrian guy roughly reported how he drove his new Mango (Number 211) from Groningen to his home. I asked him for more information and received lots of photos and a report in form of a log-book. This report reads so good [...]

Recommended Website 1: speedmachineadventures.blogspot.com

BentBlogger — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:02:44 +0000

Every here and then, I would like to present some interesting websites. Today it is not only one, but a couple of sites. Speedmachinist (as he calls himself) Lars Reisberg, who is living in Hamburg, runs his Blog at speedmachineadventures.blogspot.com.Lars is writing in German, so if your German is not very fluent, maybe you try [...]