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

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

News from the Go-One work shop

Daniel Fenn’s Mail was sent on April 2nd, 0:00, so I am pretty sure it is no April Fool’s joke. The new Go-One (which is likely to be called “Evo-K” according to internet-rumours (K for German Kopf draußen, head outside) seems to be close to finalized. At least the first [...]

HP-Velotechnik working on Trike Velomobile add-on

A lot of recumbent riders are fans of foldable kayaks. So are the guys at HP-Velotechnik. So it was no wonder that they approached the German Klepper Faltbootwerft AG when they thought about their latest project.

250th Alligt Alleweder A4 honoured with a movie

Alligt honoured the 250th Alleweder A4 with a movie about the most frequently sold version of this velomobile – the “bouwpakket”, dutch for building kit. See the movie:

Spezi2011: Who is showing what – Part 1

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 [...]

New velomobile prototype by Go-One manufacturer Beyss

The have been rumours in the German velomobilforum.de. Now the first photos became public. Beyss is going to produce a new model. This time a head-out model without the glass canopy the Go-One was so known for yet

News from German Velomobile Builders

Recently, interesting news popped up on the German Velomobilforum.de. The manufacturer of the Go-One (3, Evo, Evo-R) seems to be working on a new model, this time a “head-out” version.

Marcus van der Wehl, the inventor of the rear-steered and front-wheel-driven Velayo offers some new options.

Berkut Velomobile for Sale in Germany

Back in the late 1990s the Russian firm Berkut built two velomobile prototypes. One seems to have ended in Canada, the other one is now for sale in Germany.

Go-One Evolution R4 (Brutos)

Daniel Fenn, who will attempt to set a new record for the 24h HPV next weekend still works on the vehicle, he wants to use for this: A new variant of the Go-One Evolution R. The R4 (4th model of the series) is again lighter than his last velomobile and Daniel writes in the [...]

Factory Visit: Optima Cycles

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 [...]