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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 [...]

New entry-level HP-Velotechnik Gekko variant

BentBlogger — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:35:11 +0000

There is a new version of the HP-Velotechnik Gekko trike. In contrast to the Gekko fx it is not foldable but separable.The non-fx Gekko does – according to the specifications – seem to have a similar geometry and driving behaviour as its foldable brother. Disassembled, you end up with a package of 103 x [...]

Tunbebug Shake: The safe way to listen to music while riding

BentBlogger — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:45:21 +0000

In every bicycle related forum you can find a thread of heavy discussions whether a bike helmet helps preventing from severe injury or not. At least in every German bicycle forum I know. I won’t repeat pro-helmet or contra-helmet arguments here and I will additionally not discuss why or whether I am wearing a [...]

“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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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 [...]

Still alive…

BentBlogger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:02:27 +0000

My last blog post was published on 2nd of April; quite a long time ago. In the meantime, I had my doctoral exam viva and subsequently cared more about family. This and all the work which kept lying on the desk while I was preparing for the exam did not leave any time for blogging. [...]

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 [...]