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“A powerful energy source” – an interview about the “Forumslader”

BentBlogger — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:21:39 +0000

Long ago, on Rad-Forum.de someone had the idea to build a charging device which uses the energy from the hub dynamo to charge electronic gadgets. While meanwhile similar devices are available from commercial producers, was developed there as a community project. Jens During from Cottbus, Germany, documented the development on Forumslader.de [...]

Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery on BentBlog.de

BentBlogger — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:54:50 +0000

I am a big fan of the Yehuda Moon comics. If you don’t know Yehuda, Joe, Frank, the Ninja Biker and all the others, visit yehudamoon.com and have a look at the archive. From now on the daily Yehuda Comic can also be found on BentBlog.de (just klick on the link at the top of [...]

The online-shop for special parts: Gingko-Spezialradteile

BentBlogger — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:00:12 +0000

Recumbent bikes – and here especially velomobiles – often consist of special parts which are rather seldomly used in other bike types. Due to the comparably small production numbers it is not Shimano or SRAM who build these. There are smaller companies, often founded by recumbent enthusiasts, who take care of the production and [...]

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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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:

Cycle chain made of plastic?

BentBlogger — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:42:42 +0000

Frequently, new bike models are thrown onto the market and usually a promise is connected to these new models: they are lighter, better foldable, more comfortable, or whatever.

Today, I saw a message on the blog of the Human Power Team Delft who aim to build and ride a recumbent bike at world record speed. Theyfound [...]

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 [...]

Pinion P1 gear box

BentBlogger — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:27:12 +0000

Recently I read abuot the Pinion P1 gear-box for the first time. It is a new bike gear system which is located in the bottom bracket (region). In contrast to the Schlumpf drives or similar products, we are not talking about 2 or 3 gears but 18 of them. The gears are 11.5% away [...]

A new old velomobile

BentBlogger — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:47:38 +0000

As I had reported earlier, Go-One manufacturer Beyss offered the moulds for the production of the Go-One 3. Now it seems as if two users from the German Velomobilforum decided to buy them. They informed the forum-community about the possible future of this popular velomobile.

Achim Adlfinger (alias Coast-Flyer in the Forum) and Thomas Wiedemann (alias [...]