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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 [...]

News from the Go-One work shop

BentBlogger — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:55:34 +0000

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

BentBlogger — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:11:13 +0000

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.

In the last years, HP-Velotechnik had focused on improving comfort, ergonomics and foldable trikes. With the Scorpion fs, they [...]

250th Alligt Alleweder A4 honoured with a movie

BentBlogger — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:31:57 +0000

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

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 [...]

New velomobile prototype by Go-One manufacturer Beyss

BentBlogger — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:00:14 +0000

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

According to Daniel Fenn who is working for Beyss and who already collaborated in developing the Evo-R [...]

News from German Velomobile Builders

BentBlogger — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:46:44 +0000

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.

In the past, both, the Go-One 3 and the different [...]

Berkut Velomobile for Sale in Germany

BentBlogger — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:43:16 +0000

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.

This red prototype seems to be the earlier prototype. As most Berkut trikes it is front-wheel-driven and steered. This is archieved by a central gear-box with cardan-shafts. [...]

Go-One Evolution R4 (Brutos)

BentBlogger — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:29:51 +0000

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

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 [...]