http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3048 Alaska cyclist finds solution to high gasoline prices Cheery velomobile is an enclosed recumbent tricycle DEBRA McKINNEY dmckinney< at >adn.com Published: October 30th, 2008 12:02 AM Last Modified: October 30th, 2008 01:56 AM If a bicycle and a Cessna had a love child, it would look like the gawker magnet Andy Sorensen drives around town. link to article: http://www.adn.com/front/story/572433.html Nick Hein Morgantown, WV -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Nick Hein 2008-10-30T15:16:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3047 Hi Folks, I've just posted my pictures of the Burlington Bikefest at www.velomobiles.net. Please follow the link from the news section. regards, -Ethan Ethan Davis 2008-10-18T17:11:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3046 Hi All, I just posted some pics of the first production Borealis culled from the internet and other VM related odds and ends on the News section of www.velomobiles.net. I plan to upload my pictures from the Burlington Bikefest/NE HPV Rally over the weekend. Borealis #3 is slated to be headed this way next week! Cheers, -Ethan Ethan Davis 2008-10-18T02:23:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3045 Velomobile Happening ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Beechy To: hpvbuilders< at >yahoogroups.ca Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:18 PM Subject: [hpvbuilders] Link to Velo event Here is the link to this weekends event: http://www.hptabrant.ca/velo2008.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: hpvbuilders< at >yahoogroups.ca; hpta< at >rogers.com From: john_murray< at >sympatico.ca Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:04:44 -0400 Subject: [hpvbuilders] Velo event I was looking for details, time etc for this weekend Velo event... anyone have a link or details?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (6) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: hpvbuilders-unsubscribe< at >yahoogroups.ca To get to the webpage: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/hpvbuilders Change sett Reg Rodaro 2008-09-16T22:53:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3042 Good morning, West Virginia University is headquarters for the national Alternative Fuels Training Center (NAFTC) and they are planning a symposium to increase public awareness of alternative transportation modes. A friend of mine is organizing the event here in WV on Sept 27 and would like me to bring vehicles that represent the latest technology in human power, in addition to giving a talk. I was wondering if anyone in the Morgantown, WV area (Pittsburgh, DC, Buffalo, etc) has a velomobile they would like to bring for the event. I'll have display space to show it to attendees all day and will be giving a 15min talk during which it will be featured. My first choice would be an Alleweder Versatile, but all others are welcome. If it isn't too far I may be able to come get it. I'll take good care of it. Also, the event is open to the public and I'd invite anyone interested to attend as well. I may also have my electric car (Fiero) running by then and on display. Nick Hein Morgantown, WV -- This messa Nick Hein 2008-09-03T09:56:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3041 Hi Folks, The '08 NE HPV Rally is being held on October 4 and 5 in conjunction with the HPV Burlington Bikefest in Burlington, VT this year and is being organized by Phil Hammerslough. More information is being posted on the website at www.hpvburlingtonbikefest.org. Hope to see you all there (I might be bringing a Borealis Velomobile!) Cheers, -Ethan Ethan Davis 2008-07-31T01:45:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3039 Good morning, This is on gizmag today. I want one. The cool thing is that you can go anywhere the rails do, independent of rider/motorist vagaries. http://www.gizmag.com/the-shweeb-human-powered-monorail/9678/ Nick Hein -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Nick Hein 2008-07-23T13:42:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3038 Invitation to submit papers to the 6th European Seminar on Velomobile Design, Copenhagen October 16.-17. 2009. The series of Velomobile Design Seminars started in 1993 in Copenhagen. Through 15 years the seminars have been an important inspiration to the development of velomobiles for practical transport and sport. The perspectives for velomobiles as an alternative, environmental friendly means of transportation are today more obvious than ever. In many situations a velomobile can replace a car, offering cargo space, weather protection, better aerodynamics and higher speed than an ordinary bicycle. People need more physical exercise for health care reasons, to stay or to become fit, to improve quality of life. A velomobile is a comfortable and secure means to get training. The velomobile doesn?t increase greenhouse-gas emissions, an issue, which has gained increasing attention in the last 5 years. The United Nations (Conference of Parties under UNFCCC) has called fo Andreas Fuchs 2008-07-15T06:14:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3034 I'm not a great fan of twist shifters. They seem to lack the precise shifting of the Dura Ace barcons that I've used on USS trikes for years but barcons don't seem suitable for use on the Quest's 'T' handlebar. Worse, the twist shifters are almost useless with wet/ sweaty hands - ok, wearing gloves or wrapping them in a hanky helps but I'l thinking of swapping them out. Any suggestions for a suitable alternative? I was considering a pair of Deore RapidFire-type two lever shifters but I guess a pair of 'old fashioned' thumbshifters might be worth a try if anyone still makes them in 9sp. Any suggestions from anyone who has tried alternatives to twist shifters on a 'T'-style bar? Rob -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Rob Hague 2008-06-25T19:02:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3031 Hi Folks, Daniel Runyan has started a Coroplast fairing builders forum on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15644592486. Regards, -Ethan www.velomobiles.net <http://www.velomobiles.net> Ethan Davis 2008-06-12T13:13:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3023 http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/bmw-builds-a-ca.html It is not human powered but it does spark thought. Nice use of materials and it looks like something John Tetz would have built. tom o. -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Tom Olofsson 2008-06-11T18:46:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3021 For several months I have been working on securing a used, towed aerial banner to repurpose into sailcloth wheelcovers. Success! The company that I work for prints grand-format (17' wide inkjet printer) projects, one of which was several aerial banners for a wireless phone company. They are printed in vertical strips and welded together into a 150' x 40' final banner. The welding and prepping needs to be done by an FAA-certified company, so we had this banner returned to us so that we could reverse-engineer the finishing to do it in-house. Typically, this done, the banner would be trash. Basura. Landfill. But this one banner could be repurposed and fill the world's need for light-weight, easy-to-make fibre wheelcovers so I pestered my bosses until they were thoroughly sick of the harrasment and begged me to take my shit and get out. So to speak. Seventy pounds of printed and welded banner, too big to take home in my Versatile. Now I've got it home, beta-tested my project, and have this on offer. Get some JW Stephens 2008-06-09T16:53:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3018 Hi we have a tandem quad, but are finding it very difficult to create a fully enclosed shell for(was thinking fabric, due to the weight, and versatility to rollup/zip off certain sections depending on the weather), have a look at some pics of it at www.steppebysteppe.com.au Its not really a standard velomobile.Since,we're having trouble making a fairing for it at the moment(mainly creating the shape/ skeleton), has anyone done similar projects? Enclosing the quike itself is not for speed, but rather just to protect us from the elements (sun,wind,rain,snow etc), but it need to be aerodynamic enough from any direction so as not to become a sail. I think the whole problem is the size of it.....any ideas? Any suggestions of pics, or similar ones you've built, i'm running out of ideas! thanks -roge -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Roger Chao 2008-06-08T12:25:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3015 Hi Folks, The first Thunderstorm velomobile has been delivered (although not to me) - video at *http://tinyurl.com/6jqbku *regards, -Ethan* www.wildfirehpv.com - North American Steintrikes/Thunderstorm distributor * Ethan Davis 2008-05-02T09:50:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3011 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Swartz" <pedalsmart_ms< at >rogers.com> To: "James Hatridge" <James.Hatridge< at >gmx.de> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:50 PM Subject: Drum brake bearing swap Mark Swartz 2008-05-02T01:15:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3009 Hi all, No the list is not dead! Now for my question, can someone give me an idea where to find info on changing the disk pads on a WinZip disk? My Leitra's back disk pads are totally gone and I need to replace them. Also while I'm on the subject of brakes. My front brake cable is not working right, this is why my back brake is kaput. The deal is I have one cable going to a small box and two cables coming out, one to each front wheel. Now when I pull the brake handle inside the little box the single cable will only pull the two cables about half way before it stops. This is enough to slow my Leitra but not stop it. I can not pull the brake enough to stop so I use my feet the last few meters. This is hard on my shoes. :) I know that this is a bit vague, but I'm not a bike mechanic. Anyway any ideas on what to do? BTW how do trikes other than Leitras do the double brakes? Thanks, JIM James Hatridge 2008-05-01T15:41:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/3008 Bonjour, Georges Mochet, 93 years old, son of Charles Mochet, died on January 1st. (Ligfiets& : 2008-2) Some parts of the story : http://www.mochet.org/ http://www.velomobiling.com/FifthVMSeminar http://www.velorizontal.com/hommage_mochet.htm http://www.futurebike.ch/page.asp?DH=2307&y=2008&cat=% Georges Mochet 93-jährig gestorben Nachruf auf Georges Mochet Am 1.1.2008 verstarb Georges Mochet (Ingénieur des Arts et des Métiers), 93 Jahre alt. HPV-Fans haben ihn bei den frühen Rennen getroffen: Brighton, Tour de Sol, Laupen ... Er war ein zurückhaltender Teilnehmer, seine größte Freude war zu sehen, was es so Neues gab. Wenige wussten, dass er das Verbindungsglied zu unserer Vorgeschichte war. Mochets waren unter den ersten Velomobil- und Liegeradfabrikanten der 30er Jahre. Sein Vater und er kämpften mit der UCI darum, dass Liegeräder in der Standardrennradkategorie verblieben. Dort waren sie damals, nur eben viel schneller. Jahrelang baute ich Prototyprahmen für Georges. Er ba Yves BERTIN 2008-05-01T15:32:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/2999 But perhaps approaching moribund? Seems like there are a lot more sources of info for Velos than there used to be. So in the interest of kick-starting a discussion, what do you all think of the Borealis? I think it looks very promising, as it is a multi-purpose vehicle. Pop the body on, and it's a a velomobile. Pop the body off, and it's a trike. The drawback is that the drivetrain is as fully-enclosed or (relatively) maintenance-free as some other Velomobiles. -- This message comes to you via the Velomobile< at >bikelist.org mailing list, sponsored by http://ihpva.org/ Visit http://bikelist.org/mailman/listinfo/velomobile to manage your subscription. Warren Bowman 2008-04-30T20:16:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/2996 Giles Puckett 2008-04-30T02:14:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/2993 Hi all Wonder if anyone can help ? I have bought a FAW from Holland described as excellent with new chain and gear cluster despite claims of only having done 5000km ? I have been plagued with poor gear changes and poor brakes since I bought it and have only managed 8 miles in it so far and they were not pleasant. Brake problems - poor brakes Found left hand wheel could be turned with one hand when brakes applied , right hand one could not. These are Flevobike's own brakes not Sachs or Sturmey Archer , they have a poor reputation but surely I can get them to work ? Took off left wheel cannot get operating cam to come out of back plate to grease [ copper ] so I could only squirt a little oil in it , it seems free enough. Got the shoes off and used a file to remove all the glaze and get down to the pad material , as someone suggested I have rounding the leading edges. But cannot figure out how to adjust them properly as it is almost impossible to reach the cable clamp at the wheel end with the wheel o Paul Needham 2008-03-11T20:23:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile/2990 Hi all, Tom Breedlove, organizer of the HPV Challenge in Portland Oregon wanted me to beat the drum to get Velomobile people to attend the races and event on Memorial Day weekend. If someone is willing to organize velomobile specific events, he has the venue. For those of you who have never been to Portland International Raceway, it is a treat!!! This is a 9 corner sports car track, nearly 2 miles long with lots of trees and grass in the infield. The infield also features an expansive parking lot/pit area to hang out and test vehicles. You can camp or stay at one of the local hotel within easy pedalling distance of the track. To top it off the race track has been resurfaced this year. The link to this event: http://www.ohpv.org/HPC/index.html Happy riding, Mark. "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't do" Walter Gagehot Mark E. Mueller http://hpva.us Human Powered Vehicle Association http://www.windwrap.com Fairing site http://www.humboldt1.com/~mhp/index.html Personal b Mark Mueller and Nina Greenberg 2008-03-11T04:35:10 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile