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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 [...]

“RAAM is appealing to me” – an Interview with Christian von Ascheberg

BentBlogger — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:58:50 +0000

Since the beginning of August, Christian von Ascheberg holds the world record over 12h, 1000km and 24h in the fully faired class. Christian who was born in 1958 in Kassel, Germany now lives in Wolfenbüttel with his wife and his son. BentBlog talked to him.

BentBlog: Christian, first of all, congratulations fort he new 24h-record. [...]

Back from holidays

BentBlogger — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:07:31 +0000

I just returned from a trip to our former home town Hamburg with my family. We lived in the most beautiful town of Germany before we had to move to Jülich 1.5 years ago for professional reasons.

We visited friends and I worked in my former institute for a week to proceed with my PhD-thesis (which [...]

Something new from HP-Velotechnik

BentBlogger — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:01:02 +0000

Psst… there is something new coming from HP-Velotechnik. See video after the break…

Record-Report by Christian von Ascheberg

BentBlogger — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:14:14 +0000

Christian published his report on the record ride allready on droplimits.de in German. I was allowed to publish this also on BentBlog.de and created an English translation. Please note that some expressions in the original are hard to translate and I did some interpretation… Thank you Christian, here is what he wrote:

First of all: [...]

Record-Weekend: New 24h-World Record 4 Updates

BentBlogger — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:13:58 +0000

Christian von Ascheberg achieved 1000km after 19h 27min! He broke Jeff Nielsen’s record (1109km) after 21h 36min! This means he may go farther than 1200km in 24h!!!

*Update* Apart from Christian also Charles Henry (fully faired) and Andreas Kraus (Partly faired, Bülk) are on the track. Charly will also be faster than Jeff’s record, if Christian [...]

Record-Weekend: New 12h-World Record Update

BentBlogger — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:46:11 +0000

Christian von Ascheberg set a new 12h world record. After 11 hours he had already reached the old distance. After 12h he reached approx. 670km and is now aiming at the 24h record.Congratulations for the incredible success and good luck for the next 12 hours. Some other drivers, among them Daniel Fenn, had to give [...]

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 [...]

Reminder: Record weekend

BentBlogger — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:12:53 +0000

I just wanted to remind you all that next weekend there will be a multiple record attempt at the Dekra-Testoval.

For more information, prior to and during this event, please visit the record team website. Visitors and helpers are welcome. The event will start on Friday, 30th of July 2010 16:00, the track is available until [...]

Hase presents new E-Trike with foldable fairing

BentBlogger — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:27:04 +0000

Hase is going to present a new E-trike on basis of their Kettwiesel. The KLIMAX 2K will cost around 5600 Euro and will be shown on the EuroBike 2010 (see Press Release, currently only in German). I personally feel that e-bikes go beyond the subject of BentBlog.de, therefore Idid not report much about them [...]