2010-06 - Kiwi HPV

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2010-06 - Kiwi HPV

Kiwi HPV
The Newsletter of Kiwi Human Powered Vehicles Inc.
Kiwi HPV President Chris Freear leading from the front
June 2010
MARK YOUR DIARIES 3
Kiwi HPV Online Forum
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New Around Australia record 5
Another 24 hour record
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OzHPV Challenge
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Australasian Cycle History Conference
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My Main ‘Bent
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Kiwi HPV President
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GRUBER Assist bicycle motor
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Laidback in Canberra
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Nokia Bike Charger
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Honda Velomobile
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COMMITTEE
President
Chris Freear
(03) 349 5557 (home)
[email protected]
Secretary
Paul Dunlop
0274 957 693
[email protected]
Treasurer
Helmut Walle
(03) 388 3954 (home)
[email protected]
Committee
Bob Knight
(03) 313 9153 (home)
[email protected]
John Falconer
(03) 354 6333 (home)
[email protected]
Symon Holmes
(03) 349 6414 (home)
[email protected]
Chris O’Leary
(03) 455 6181 (home)
[email protected]
Martin Wellby
(03) 324 2771 (home)
[email protected]
Editor
Duncan McDonald
(03) 348 7447 (home)
[email protected]
Content
Manager
Pete Hallam
021 296 4674
[email protected]
Kiwi HPV Inc., Private Box 13-757, Christchurch 8141
www.kiwihpv.org.nz
Join the NEW forum on the website:
http://www.kiwihpv.org.nz/phpBB3/
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Canterbury Social Ride
All welcome to join us. Refer to the listings below for specific iterations
Monthly
2nd Sun of of the upcoming rides.
the month. Ride Captain is Symon Holmes, email [email protected]
phone (03) 349 6414
mobile 021 257 2720
Otago Social Ride
A small but keen recumbent riding group has started up in Dunedin
Monthly
2nd Sun of - HPV Otago - and they do monthly social rides.
the month. Contact person is Chris O’Leary
email [email protected] phone (03) 477 1812 Kiwi HPV Annual General Meeting
Wed
25th Aug
Held at the CPIT, Madras Street, Christchurch. Guest speaker will be
Morgan Lawrence talking about how to electrify your cycle!
Contact the Secretary of Kiwi HPV email [email protected]
phone (03) 940 8212
mobile 0274 957 693
Waimate TT
Sunday
12th Sep
Taking place at the Victoria Park velodrome at Waimate in North Otago. Held in conjunction with the Oamaru Ordinary Cycle Club.
Minimal entry fee applies. Contact Secretary, Kiwi HPV
email [email protected]
phone (03) 940 8212
mobile 0274 957 693 Waimate TT
Sunday
19th Sep
Rain-day for this event, held in reserve
The Human Powered Challenge
Weekend
of
9th-10th
Oct
Our premier event, held at the Canterbury Agricultural Park. Three separate events, for speed, endurance and practicality, so that we can find
the best allround human-powered vehicle. More details to be supplied
closer to the event.
Nelson TT
Saturday
6th Nov
Velodrome racing for recumbenteers and HPV enthusiasts, held at
Trafalgar Park, Nelson. More details to be supplied closer to the event.
Sunday
7th Nov
The perfect race for recumbents. A couple of small hills and the rest is
down hill. Organised by Stewarts AvantiPlus in Nelson.
Rotoiti to Renwick
phone (03) 548 1666
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Kiwhpv online Forums
Paul Dunlop
As intimated in the previous newsletter, Kiwi HPV has a new online forum.
Please point your browsers to:
http://www.kiwihpv.org.nz/
and select “Forums” from the menu on the left hand side.
The forum was set up with the intent of enabling HPV enthusiasts within NZ
to connect with each other and to share information and ideas. I’m pleased to
say that that’s already happening. In the few weeks that the forum has been
running, there have been quite positive discussions taking place. Here are a few
of the items being discussed:
• Plans to enter teams of recumbenteers into the non-stop Nelson to
Christchurch bike race that’s held each year.
• Talks about the best date for the Nelson TT (and Saturday, 6th November
seems to be the preferred date, by the way)
• An ever-developing thread called “Post your Bike/Trike”, where HPVers
are posting photos of their machines (completed and works-in-progress) .
The last thread makes for quite a compelling read. If you wish join in and share
photos of your own HPV, then please do. It’ll be an excellent way of generating
feedback from a knowledgable group of enthusiasts.
The forum has a very simple and hassle-free registration process, which takes
but a minute or so to do. Once in, you can post messages, reply to comments,
upload photos and drawings, all without difficulty.
When you visit the forum, you’ll note that it’s subtitled “the online meetingplace for
Kiwi HPVers”, and that is what we want it to be. Perhaps you are contemplating
purchasing an HPV, and want others’ opinion as to what to buy: or perhaps you
want to know who owned a specific machine you’d seen in the paper some
years ago: or perhaps you want to connect with fellow recumbent riders in your
area, and want to know if there’s enough interest in doing a social ride. Then the
Kiwi HPV forum is the place for you to meet and talk with your fellow enthusiasts.
We hope you to see you there.
Paul Dunlop,
Secretary,
Kiwi HPV Inc.
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New Around Australia record
Pete Heal has done it again.
He set off on his Velokraft VK2 at midnight on 1st May 2010 aiming to beat the
record set by Dane, Erik Straarup in 2008 which stood at 51 days 1 hour.
Minutes into Sunday, May 2, 2010, Poit’s Velokraft recumbent’s brilliant tail
lights had disappeared, northbound, from the sight of viewers on Observatory
Hill over the crest of the Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway. Only minutes before
midnight on June 19 his blindingly bright dynamo headlights again illuminated
Observatory Hill as he returned from the south, his lap complete.
He’d ridden 14,913km in 48 days, 23 hours and 37 minutes, averaging a fraction
over 304km per day without a rest day. This phenomenal effort reduced the
already impressive record of a Dane, Erik Straarup, by just over two days, while
Poit actually rode 302km further than Erik did.
Poit had pedalled almost non-stop from 0400 that final Saturday, leaving
Narooma on the NSW south coast, to reach Sydney, a nearly 20-hour leg.
Incredible!
Not the sort of hazards one encounters in this country
For further information on other record attempts there is a summary here:
http://www.davebyrnes.com.au/Round_Australia_2009/Overview.htm
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Another 24Hour Record
OzHPV News
Jeff Nielsen’s 24 hour record of 1109kms set in April 2010 has been taken back
with a vengeance by the previous record holder, German rider Christian von
Ascheberg.
Riding a fully enclosed three wheel German Milan SL Velomobile, Christian
travelled 1224km around the test track in Germany (of course – think he used
German tyres too). Christian averaged 50.8 kmh for the 24 hours.
The questions now are can someone beat that high mark and is a three wheeled
fully enclosed vehicle the ultimate 24-hour record setting vehicle?
http://www.milan-velomobil.de/milan/
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OzHPV Speed Challenge
Peter Heal
OzHPV Speed Challenge – Canberra – 22nd to 24th October 2010
The Canberra Mob are organising a weekend of HPV and recumbent racing
between Friday 2nd and Sunday 24th October 2010 on the fantastic Stromlo
Forest Park Criterium Circuit located just out of Canberra.
There will be classes for individuals and teams with various races from criteriums
to a 6 hour race.
They are hoping there will be HPV teams coming from Victoria and elsewhere
for some exciting racing.
Australasian Cycle History Conference in NZ
Michael Toohey
The Australasian Cycle History Conference (ACHC) will be held in NZ early next
year (2011).
Anyone interested in presenting a paper on the history of the HPV movement in
NZ at the Conference is invited to contact the Michael Toohey.
Michael will present a paper on velocipedes in NZ.
The venue will is likely to be either Hastings or Christchurch.
Michael Toohey [email protected]
My Main ‘Bent
Scott Campbell
This is basically a Vision R40 in SWB mode.
The frame is 50mm steel tube, not sure what grades are used.
The front wheel is a 20 inch Sun Rim with a Cheng-shin 20x1.75 BMX tyre. The
rear wheel is 26” Sun Rim wheel (original with the bike), with Michelin 26x1.4
tyre and tube containing anti-puncture goo. The wheelbase is quite short, about
750mm.
The bottom bracket height is about 620mm, and the seat is about the same.
Currently, the brakes are discs on front (Galfer 6” wave rotor and cable operated
calipers) and V brakes with Koolstop pads on the rear. The front used to have
V-brakes and Koolstops as well, and they were pretty good. I changed this
when I fitted a Pantour suspension hub on the front, since a disc works better
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mechanically than V-brakes in this arrangement. There was an article about
this in the June 2006 newletter.
The seat is a standard Vision frame seat of aluminium tube nicely TIG welded.
One of the cross tubes fractured a year or so ago, but Gavin TIG’ed it together
again. It has a mesh back with padded slung base. Very comfortable for me.
The chain is nothing special. I replaced this recently when swapping the
rear hub for a SRAM 3 x 8. It required two “ordinary” KMC chains plus a few
extra links, to make up the 220 link requirement. I like to use White Lightning
or similar “dry” lubricant on the chain, since this is more clothing friendly for
accidental touches.
The riding position is quite high and moderately upright, which is good for city
riding. It has positive steering, which can be almost twitchy at slow speeds until
you are used to it. At any useful speed, it becomes solid and predictable (tested
up to 70kph so far).
Scott’s main ‘bent: Vision R40 (circa 1995)
When I bought it, it had underseat steering, which was fine enough, but it made
the bike a bit wide for comfort when mixing it in traffic. I converted it to aboveseat steering by grafting together several pieces of donor bike. The result is
practical rather than beautiful or particularly lightweight.
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The weight of the basic bike is about 14kg. However, with boot box and electrical
system, it’s more like 18kg. For flatland commuting use, this is not a big deal.
It’s a commuting machine, first and foremost. It has good lights, good cargo
carrying capacity, good brakes, and (when I put the guards back on), good
splash handling for wet weather. However, I took it around the Grape Ride in
standard commuting mode a few years ago, with absolutely no problems, a
comfy seat and a good view of proceedings.
One of the things I like about the recumbent riding position is the excellent
visibility and good eye contact with other road users. I also like the snappy
handling and good comfort. I credit this machine with keeping me riding, where
I would have given up on an upright due to neck and back troubles.
Its weaknesses are the generic recumbent problem of low centre of mass
resulting in wobbliness at slow speed, and track standing difficulty (this matters
more for commuter use). Also, being a SWB, the rear wheel loading is only
about 50%, which has the effect of making it relatively easy to lock up the back
wheel for anything more than mild braking.
When I went looking in 1996, I wanted a robust no-nonsense machine with good
handling, reasonable performance. SWB seemed a better choice for city use,
so I focussed on these. I test rode a Vision R40 and a Rans Rocket. The Rocket
I tested seemed to have more wheel interference than the R40, which tipped the
balance, since otherwise they were pretty much of a muchness, and both good
machines. Also, the R40 had a LWB option if I wanted to have a tinker, although
now that I have it, I have not felt inclined to ever make the transformation. A
few years ago, I had an opportunity to ride a LWB R40. It was a bit odd: familiar,
but different.
Dave Whittam (in Christchurch) did the original importing and setup for me in
1996. I have been buying tyres mostly from Keith Guthrie at Cycle Trading Co.
This machine has pretty much met my expectations and more. I’d readily
recommend it for someone buying, except that ATP have stopped manufacturing
Visions, which is rather a shame.
I recently changed the rear hub for a 3x8 unit, and having the hub gears has
made it even nicer for commuting use, without radically degrading the efficiency.
Other improvements I should do are to put the wheelguards back on to reduce
the splatter of dirt on the frame, and take some weight out of the steering stem.
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Our President
Duncan McDonald interviews Chris Freear
Our one and only president, Chris Freear, will be standing down at this year’s
AGM. Some time ago I realised that I had only ever met Chris at Kiwi HPV
events and had never really spent time talking to him about anything other than
things to be done on the day.
Since I have only been around
for the last five years I had no
idea of his background and why
he is involved.
Here is what I found out:
Chris: I’ve been riding laid back
since 88, got my first machine
there when I was at university,
I saw a program called Fast
Forward which was sort of
a… fast forward… there was
a Kiwi science technology
thing and Dr. Raine1… the trike
(instructor) was on there and I
saw these things and thought,
that sounds exciting and I got
into thinking I can go faster, as
a lot of us do.
Kiwi HPV founding President Chris Freear
And so I build this machine in
88 and…
Duncan: Was that a trike?
Chris: No, it was just a short wheel base…dual 20 inch wheels all round. I’ve
always liked the idea of something that was kind of useful for touring so it was
always in the back of my mind. So I like standard size wheels if I can. Very
recently I’ve started playing with different size wheels but it’s nice, compact I
want to fit into a regular bike rack, so it has the same proportions as a regular
bike just a different layout. And as many people have seen my construction if it’s
over the years have a or can attest, has inspired many people to build a bike
because they look at it and wow… even I can build something better than that.
(Laughs)
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Fast Forward - Kiwi science/technology Tricanter trike (mentioned in “New Zealand
Engineering” 1997 November - From University to Industry - A Route to Product Innovation by David
Raine, associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Canterbury and a director
of Whisper Tech Ltd). The major shareholder of Whisper Tech Limited is now Meridian Energy, one
of New Zealand’s largest electricity companies.
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Chris: It turned well for left, but not well for the right because of the crabbing
that has been introduced you know looking from behind the wheels were at any
angle except perpendicular to the road.
I wore out three sets of tires on that machine so I did a lot of mileage… riding
all around the place…yeah I was hooked, I was helped by thinking I can go a
little faster and discovered that they were not actually faster and I can make any
bike look slow and heavy but discovered the sort of comfort and practicality for
commuting, you know, I’m a commuter cyclist. I have been ever since to this
day.
My daily commute is typically about 15 k each way and up until very recently
I did that rain, hail or shine. I tend now to use the bus on the rain and hail
days…and bike on the other ones. I did bike home on the big snow of 92… I
managed…one of the more unpleasant rides home… about two inches of snow
and caked all down the front of me… was feeling sort of…. Staunch about the
commute…I have been riding for a long long time.
I get excited about things like the luggage capacity, the lighting system, how
easily integrated that is, the lock ability, mudguards…. Those sorts of things… a
commuter rather than a speed freak… although my current machine is actually
more efficient than the equivalent upright…
Most machines I’ve built have actually been much slower than an upright. You
get a bit of a weight penalty and I wasn’t maxing out the aerodynamics so that
tended to be slower … and of course, I don’t have the pain in my ass making
me need to go faster so I find I tend to back off a little.
To ride five hours and get off and walk normally has always been the goal.
I was there the conception of the human powered vehicle movement in New
Zealand … indeed HPVNZ I think was the first iteration. Mr. Dunlop was the
secretary, a guy by the name of Tony Woodruff up north….sort of inspired the
thing - he biked around the country Model T replica he made raising funds for
Forest and Bird, sort of stirred up some interests.
HPV Canterbury was formed and two other groups around the countryside and
sometime later we realize that the Canterbury group was the only one that
survived so… we reinvented ourselves as Kiwi HPV.
Duncan: When was that?
Chris: It wasn’t that long ago, no… it’s probably three or four years ago. Yeah…
maybe even a little bit longer. Yeah, so have been involved in the executive
of most of those organizations through much of that time. And probably had a
fairly long stint as president in the current configuration and yeah, so that has
been the history and I’ve been interested in and involved with HPV… as long
as the history of New Zealand has existed really. I would count myself as one of
the few, the first few that were riding laid back people…. I wouldn’t suggest too
many predate me.
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Duncan: So, what got you into cycling in the first place?
Chris: I like the elegance of the design. I’m an engineer by training. Energy is
my thing I work in the energy industry. Most of my career has been in renewable
generation where I am currently, in particular in wind or energy efficiency…
waste minimization that’s where I cut my teeth as it were.
I always liked the bicycle as a really elegant mode of transport but if I look at
a car I get more excited by a small car because of the design challenges on
making a small car are much more severe than a big car… any idiot can make
a big car you put a bigger engine in it and you can make it go faster.
If you limit yourself to a small power plant a small carbon footprint then it gets
much harder to design something and when you get one that works there is a
elegance about it which really appeals to me.
Cycling… a bicycle has that,
because there’s these huge
trade-offs about the pathetic
amount of power and the quite
a lot of mass.
I probably started thinking you
can have a bike that does most
things and I decided that no,
you can’t.
I think you need probably at
least three, probably more,
like four or five bikes and your
stable to be able to do those
different jobs well. You get away
from the idea of compromising
too much and I think you design
a bicycle for a purist in results
and if you want it to go fast, you
design it to go fast, and if want
to carry lots of luggage, you
carry lots of luggage and don’t
Chris anticipating a ride
try to make your luggage carrier
go quickly or vice versa. And
that’s really just the result of all the compromises that you have to make in the
design constraints that you have.
Duncan: So on that point, where do you see the relevance of the Kiwi HPV
everyday vehicle event?
Chris: I see that as a vehicle that fits that commuter’s kind of need… I suppose…
whatever…they step sideways into urban design…. we live in an urban society,
we are an urban species, more than half of the people on the planet now live
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in cities.
Cities have been shaped very much in the last hundred years by automotive
transport thinking which means they are reasonably sprawl in nature, particularly
in the west and so if you are going to deal with something like peak oil as a
concept or as a reality then you need a personal transport solution that works
within the city that we have and bicycle and motor vehicle.
The bicycle is the only human path of option that works and the city is too
sprawled for pedestrian transport to work really well and it makes mass transit
difficult, but not impossible. But It makes it difficult because the collect system
has to be quite disperse and so I see that sort of post-petroleum world we live
in…
These cities aren’t designed particularly well for the walking kinds of things
that we need to do so the bicycle is the transition to get you back to that and
there’s also the health benefits and blah blah blah, so the practical vehicle race
is about a machine that does the job the car currently does … because we don’t
actually need seating capacity for five and luggage capacity of half or ¾ of a ton
to commute to work and pick up a loaf of bread and two containers of milk from
the grocers on the way home which is what most of us use our cars for.
So the idea is some sort of transition vehicle. The commuter has to cope with the
rigors of the weather and they have to cope with the harsh conditions of urban
roads and the bits of the urban roads that you get pushed into… it’s usually
full of pot holes and other bits and pieces and there’s a need for it to be at least
speedy through traffic to give a comparable journey time so you can compete
with these other modes and that’s kind of the motivation for it as I see it.
It’s primarily a practical robust street machine with some limited luggage ability
and those practicalities that come from things like suspension and those sorts
of things. Not all of these have been tested hugely well on the practical vehicle
event which is why the events keep evolving… it’s always the one that gets
rechecked because we haven’t got the balance right in the way the event works.
Duncan: You mentioned lighting; should we do a night time event to test it out?
Chris: Exactly, but I think it’s just introducing that flavour rather than being all
about speed. That’s it…although The bulk of the resurgence that’s happening
in cycling is all about going fast all over again …. You know….reiterating 19th
century… all over again… it seems to be nothing new. It’s just history repeating
itself.
Duncan: Whenever someone comes up with a new idea, you can always find
it in the past.
Chris: You can, and I maintain the definitive book on cycle designing was
written by a gentleman by the name of Sharp in1896 or something I think when
he wrote and the only thing that has changed between what he wrote and the
modern day is some materials … carbon fibres and that sort of thing. But it is
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as far as I can tell the definitive work on the
forces and the compromises, the balances
and all the principles that you’re required to
design a bicycle to and everything else is just
window dressing on that really.
Duncan: Even the modern-seeming things
are often patented by century or hundred
years ago.
Chris: Exactly….I am … quite strongly by this
whole… you know…the climate change kind
of discussion in the back of my mind there’s
always a ….how does this help transition to
a world that actually uses a level of energy
that it have can harvest sustainably? That’s
basically New Zealand’s case… can we
run an entire country on renewable and
renewable only? And at the moment we
only do about 40% of its energy needs from
renewable so…
Duncan: Do you see that changing
significantly?
Chris: Yes, within our generation I expect the world would have made this
transition or hit a wall.
The whole thing internationally is really interesting because we are right on that
transition point and Hubbert’s peak is just a simple matter of mathematics and
it’s nothing mystical or magical about it.
We are not going to run out of oil or anything in the next day or two or even in
the next two or three centuries but what is going to happen is cost is going to
climb and we are on the other side of the cube instead of supply outstripping
demand…demand will outstrip supply and that has economic consequent that
just ripples through an entire society.
Our entire global society is built on the premise of cheap and abundant energy
and it’s actually solar energy that was stored up all over at a very long period
of time.
We are spending it really really quickly and there’s lots of kind of examples of
how this works. One that is quite nice to give you an idea is the slave equivalent
of the petroleum that we use in our daily lives. If you go back to ancient Rome
your wealth was measured by how many slaves you had running around doing
things for you.
We have slaves running about doing stuff for us now but it’s actually in the form
of energy powered appliances and devices and we have the equivalent of about
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500 slaves each in terms of the work that is done by the fossil fuel energy that
we are harvesting. This actually means you and I live better than the kings of
old. When you sit down for dinner tonight look at what’s on your table and think
about where those products came from. You know how far they have traveled
were they available
Duncan: And how much choice we have.
Chris: Exactly, you know there are bananas
from Ecuador, spices from the Middle East,
the kings of old didn’t have that choice. They
were stuck with what was in season and could
be picked up from maybe two or three hundred
miles from their location.
Duncan: When we were growing up everyone
had their own veggie patch and stock and
grew a lot of their stuff
Chris: Yeah and we are going back to that.
You look at what’s happening there’s a program on TV teaching you how to
plant a veggie patch all over again. The mass media has articles about raising
chickens and other skills that are almost lost which are going to come back
and we are going to be moved back by the sheer fact that we won’t have the
transport available that we have had.
We are going to move back to a more locally grown and consumed society. My
personal belief is that I will see that happen. My kids will definitely see it happen,
and it’s not a really scary transition because there are people alive now who
have lived that lifestyle already and know what it’s like.
There is this fundamental shift in the way that we power our world that is likely
going to happen and the bicycle is going to be a huge part of the future solution
the same way it was a huge part oncein the 19th century.
Again we are going back in history… the bicycle was the fastest thing on the road
of which was its attraction for a long long time and I think it will again … raising
its status to actually be the freedom-giving piece of personal transport that will
be available to the common man. I think with what we know about economics
and physics we can make it just a little more comfortable and pleasant to use as
opposed to the ordinaries of old…
Duncan: So where do you see Kiwi HPV going?
Chris: We’ve always been an interesting mix … I think there’s been a number
of members who have featured in Jim Hopkins sheds and if ever you want a
interesting shed to visit, any of our membership sport garages or workshops
that are real places of joy (Laughs)
For a long time, our membership was pretty much people who would get into
something thinking “these are cool” and they’ll get into and they were the
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tinkerers. It was about the building, it was about the construction.
They might build half a dozen machines to try all sorts of configurations but they
weren’t actually cyclists … they didn’t really use them and so we have a large
number of these vehicles sitting in sheds of these interesting individuals all
around the countryside but not a lot of them are in daily use.
The real transition in the last five years or so within our organization is we
now actually have a majority of people who were looking for and using these
vehicles in an everyday sense.
It’s gone very much from a tinkerer and inventor kind of philosophy and those
people didn’t stay with us terribly long… a couple of years and they are off
making a three stage Saturn rocket replica to launch, trying to do an electric
submarine or whatever kind of took their fancy, a real grasshopper brain kind of
thing.. it was the technology that was interesting, whereas now we are getting
into more the usability and practicality.
I think we need to be aware of that and I think an increasing number of people
find us for health reasons. They have issues with nerves or back problems
or whatever which means they can ride a recumbent or some form of human
powered vehicle where you can’t ride a standard upright UCI style bike.
I think the obesity thing is going to be part of it as well. You can put a 150 kilo
person on a suitable designed recliner without embarrassing them. It is very
hard to do that on a mountain bike, especially the view from behind so…I think
it’s going to be a path for a lot of those people back to more balanced in their
lives as well and yeah, I suppose, we are a bit evangelical just making people
aware. Because most people don’t even know these things exist.
Duncan: They don’t, and it’s a fairly small membership.
Chris: It’s a very small membership, yes.
Duncan: We do have exposure for things like the festival of cycling. I’m not
aware that’s drawn in any new members to any great degree.
Chris: I don’t think it has brought any new members but what has happened is
when riding around (and I’ve been riding around for thirty some odd years) it’s
gone from look at that weird bike, what the hell is that… to “Oh, there’s a bloke
in a recliner.” So there’s a base level of understanding that is kind of filtered
slowly into the consciousness.
That’s the first step and then the next step is about people having aware of
these things enough to stimulate their interest and have a go and you’ll get to a
critical mass point where the thing will go ballistic and that’s what happens with
fads. Or any sort of fashion thing or weird wonderful, I mean scooters exploded
onto the scene a few years ago and haven’t lessened up.… and if you have
enough gray hair you’ll actually remember that they are not new.
Duncan: Yes, they just had bigger wheels.
Chris: Yeah, Bigger wheels and whatever. They sort of, they came and they’re
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back but you stand outside the school, any primary of school around the country
the majority of kids that make their way to school have their own scooter.
because it kind of fits, if mom and dad are not dropping them off, in the chelsey
tractor, then they are probably skating. they are not biking and that’s because…
they have skateboards and roller blades as well… they found hype as it were in
that group as a form of personalized transport…
I think the recumbent has a niche as well …. Will they ever be mainstream? I
don’t know … I think if human powered transport was to become mainstream so
let’s say if you don’t have cars what are you left with?
If human powered transport was the norm then I would expect a recumbent
style configuration to be a large part of what you see.
If we wind up going to a mass model of transportation …more like Eurasian
cities and European cities then you’ll end up with something that looks more like
a mountain bike, because that really is incredibly a very versatile configuration…
it does all things badly, as opposed to something really really well but if you can
only own one bicycle, which I think is probably an unreasonable restriction to
put on anybody, but if you can only own one bicycle, then something like a
mountain bike or a touring bike. You be hard pressed to find a more versatile
layout, you know, I think that is more than 50 years of refinement
Duncan: You mentioned about recumbent being more recognized by the
general public. How long do you think that’s been so?
Chris: I want to say that’s a decade or so now. I think the chopper has helped a
wee bit as well. You know since the resurgent of choppers I think, a recumbent
is viewed by a lot of people as just a extreme chopper, and appreciated on that
level as well. I mean, I’ve had one kid offered to trade me his little brother for my
machine, while riding along. He felt it had the requisite streak to wow his friends.
I think there’s an element there that’s helpful.
It still turns more heads than a Ferrari. So I think, you do probably have a bit
of that exhibitionist in you to really be comfortable, certainly riding around town
on them.
I was riding through Picton and somebody turned around, looked at me, “yup,
now I’ve seen everything.” Which kind of summed it up I thought.
I think there’s two places where recumbents really shine. One is that Commuter/
touring kind of configuration and the other is an insanely fast speed machine.
I don’t think off road can be done, probably shouldn’t be… there are other
configurations that work, but I think that the layout lends itself.
Duncan: Pete Hallam might disagree…
Chris: Yeah, there are a number of people trying, but I’m sure that adds a
dimension to that kind of riding that other machines don’t. I mean, people ride
unicycles, The human spirit is very adventurous, you know, they like to try every
possible variance on it and it’s great that people are trying.
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You know mountain bikes has actually been a huge boom for recumbent
because for the first time cycles have decent brakes, and a decent gear range
and suspension. All the things that bikes desperately needed that haven’t been
on the radar for a very long time. Basically all the innovation was taken out of
the industry back in the 30’s. But I suspect there’s a second dawn, that sets the
humble bicycle in the not distant future.
Duncan: Well, I think there are always more bicycles in Christchurch than in
other places. When we see discussion in the press about cycles versus cars
it’s just a pointer to the fact that there are more bikes on the road these days.
Chris: And the research I’ve seen suggests that there’s a safety in numbers in
critical mass that sits about where Christchurch used to be which is somewhere
around like five to six percent of our trips.
According to the census that are done on bicycles if we could get that back up
to about 15 percent then what happens is there’s a shift on the road using public
that goes from instead of being surprised when you meet a cyclist around the
corner, you would expect to see a cyclist around the corner, because there’s just
that weight of numbers everywhere.
Then the whole culture of sharing the road with legitimate other road users
comes through and in places where they got these numbers up you’ll see it.
A cycle way that runs near the university has sufficient usage that the people who
drive that road behave very differently from the ones you meet on Marshland
Road. They behave differently toward you because they are used to direct
interaction to cyclists everyday and the way it works.
I think it’s definitely coming back and a policy level. If you’re motivated by climate
change, health kind of issues, security of supply or trying to move your country
to a more indigenous supply of fuel rather than being held to ransom by some
of the few oil producers around the world.
The Bicycle was actually a silver bullet, there’s not a lot of silver bullets around,
you know, the bicycle is actually one of them and sooner or later, it is going to be
embraced on that level and the reality is that it doesn’t require much spending.
You know we are talking the kind of infrastructure that’s needed to support that
mass shift is a tenth of what’s currently spent on roads. I mean, when you think
about it, some of the roads are just really wide cycle lanes.
Duncan: Look at Cuba as an example of that.
Chris: Exactly…so it’s not a hard… it might be a hard mental shift, but physically
on the ground, it’s not hard to convert your sprawling urban metropolis into a
very cycle friendly environment.
Duncan: What impact do you think the national cycle way will have?
Chris: It’s getting people to have those kind of conversations. It’s introduced the
whole value in the national cycle way it’s premise on tourist money and tourist
money being our second biggest earner.
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The people who come here to cycle spend twice as much and stay 50% longer
than regular tourists. So why the hell wouldn’t you want to encourage them?
And the ministry of tourism, now that they got their head around this, which was
the benefit that came out of the job summit have realized that it’s not a huge
market, but it’s a very lucrative one and it’s one worth having.
Particularly for New Zealand where you have people travelling half way around
the world anyway so you want them to stay as long as you possibly can. And this
is a style of tourist that they come and they spend money in the local economy
because they actually want to connect with the region and the local people.
They are staying in the bed and breakfast rather than the five star hotels.
They might pay the same per room per night because it’s a very nice bed and
breakfast but the difference is that the money doesn’t get siphoned off into the
country…so bang for the buck if it cost 50 million dollars to double or triple the
segment of the tourist market, that’s hell of a good return for tourism in New
Zealand.
That’s when people are getting their heads around it. So I think that’s sustainable
growth as well that I think that you get people having those conversations you
have councils competing for it. And they actually start thinking about cycling, I
mean we have cycling policy now in most of the councils around the country
which is something that didn’t exist 10 or 15 years ago.
The whole movement has been very slow but the paperwork has captured what
happened in Christchurch, that was the first city to get a cycling policy. You can’t
do a realignment in the intersection of Christchurch without having to write a
wee report about its effect on cycles and are you going to incorporate cycling
into this?
So we get a whole bunch of cycling infrastructure done as part of regular road
maintenance or realignment work. What that has meant for us as a city is we
haven’t got a connected system we got lots of fragmented bits of cycle way and
we need to start joining those dots to actually get the real benefit.
It’s also reasonably well documented that people who do commuting journey,
need to be able to do the whole journey and if there’s a break or a gap then they
won’t do any of it.
Duncan: Do you see Kiwi HPV having an advocacy role?
Chris: No, I don’t think so, but I think we need to maintain our awareness of our
advocacy groups because the premise that sits with them at the moment is that
everyone rides a mountain bike or a touring bike.
Duncan: Should we have more direct links and communications with them?
Chris: Yes, we probably should…we probably should communicate with them
more regularly at the regular cycling conferences over the last few years. I think
I missed two of all the conferences over the years, and one of the drums I beat
while I’m there is saying bear in mind you are designing an infrastructure for
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that, but bear in mind not all bicycles look like that and it’s the little things it’s
the detail like the (ball out) arrangement like the way that bike lane cuts across
the park, a long wheelbase recumbent will struggle whereas there are other
designs that it’s fine with.
It’s that kind of awareness that the style of the bicycle that you are going to be
working for bear in mind you get back to this climate change peak oil discussion.
The world of future is going to have more cargo bikes. It’s going to have bicycles
pulling trailers to get groceries or whatever else. It’s just that awareness of all
the variances that’s possible. Our organization is basically a home for all that
variance.
Duncan: I had a policeman pull up aside me recently and tell me that I should
have a flag because I can’t be seen… that I was too low.
Chris: I had that conversation on numerous occasions and I still don’t have a
flag. My personal experience is that I’ve been wiped out once spectacularly on
a recumbent and I’ve been wiped out half a dozen times spectacularly on an
upright.
That tells me something about visibility or I don’t think it’s actually visibility I
think it’s about being seen. I think there’s a difference between people actually
looking at you and actually seeing you. On a recumbent they seem to actually
see you.
My argument is that the road infrastructure has been designed for someone
facing sitting facing forward sitting two feet off the ground in an armchair
configuration.
If a recumbent puts a person two feet off the ground facing forward in an armchair
type sitting configuration they are actually interacting with the infrastructure in a
way that the road infrastructure was designed to be interacted with.
An upright bicycle has you sitting far too high facing down and traveling head
first so I think the argument is that a traditional bicycle is actually too high. It
doesn’t interact.
SUVs have changed the average seat height quite considerably so I think there
is a problem there. But I find I can communicate my intentions much more clearly
with motorist from a recumbent position than I can with an upright bicycle.
But it’s still won’t change the fact that to the non-cyclist “different” is bad…
people hate change. It’s a universal truth that anything that is new or exciting is
obviously bad and needs to be stopped. That’s the knee jerk reaction.
The other thing that you can surmise from this whole rant that you just been
subjected to is that I’ve had a reasonably long involvement in the whole cycle
emphasis thing. Now one of the other things that I do with my spare time is
share a charitable trust that‘s building a rail trail from Christchurch to Little River.
That project has been going on for about 10 years now… I think I should make
a wee confession that the bicycle’s place is actually on the road but people have
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been so long away from cycling that they can’t go back to the road in one step,
it’s too big of a transition.
Rail trails and those types of facilities, off road facilities, are absolutely critically
important in getting people back onto bikes by giving them an environment
to make that first step. From making that first step from being non-cyclist to
cyclists. And once they have gained confidence of being cyclists then they will
make the next step of making onto the roads. And it’s all about getting my 15%
numbers again. It’s a way of introducing people back to bicycles and a way that
they will have a positive association with them.
Duncan: What sort of people are the other Trust members?
Chris: Just from the community, I presume. A large number of disciplines most
of them are not really cyclists in the sense that they do ride around a bit but I
think they are motivated much more by the perceived safety concerns.
I think I’m the only one out of that group that would advocate having cycles on
roads whereas they are entirely happy to have the two segregated…all the way
through their motivation.
A lot of that is also just useful community infrastructure and the latent need that’s
there. One of the sections we opened was between Prebbleton and Lincoln and
before we put the cycle way in there was about half a dozen a day that braved
that stretch of road. It’s a reasonably busy and narrow piece of road so you
need to be reasonably ballsy to ride it.
We now have about 40 thousand movements per annum on that section of trail.
You can’t go down that section of road anytime of the day or night and not find
somebody on their bike or walking their dog or going for their run.
What’s happened is that on Sunday afternoon kids in Lincoln are given two
dollars and set to ride to Prebbleton to get an ice cream to get out of mom and
dad’s hair for a while. There’s a squadron of kids that ride to school about 16km.
There’s been this whole reintroduction and on the back of that, some districts
have a cycling policy that are advocating for improvements and additions to
which this is the backbone it’s been a catalyst kind of project.
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GRUBER Assist bicycle motor
http://www.gruberassist.com/english/product/technology/
GRUBER Assist is an ultra-light drive for mountain bikes, trekking cycles and
tour cycles, suitable for later installation. The skilfully conceived Gruber motor
is invisibly built into the bicycle (seat tube with an inner diameter of 31.6mm
required) and scores especially highly on account of its light weight (900 g).
The auxiliary drive, with its 200 watt of additional power, promises a performance
increase of up to 100% – for min. 45 minutes at full load. When the drive is
switched off, you continue cycling as normal. GRUBER Assist guarantees
pleasurable cycling without a red face!
The newly developed GRUBER Assist bicycle motor consists of five components:
• On/off switch
• Electronic control
• 200 watt powered drive unit with free-wheel
• LiION Mangan battery pack 4.5 Ah / 30V
• External battery charger
The Gruber Assist components
The auxiliary drive, with a length of almost 22 cm and 200 watts of power,
is permanently connected torque-proof with the drive shaft of the foot pedal
through a bevel gear unit; gear changing is still possible. At an optimal pedal
frequency of approx. 60 pedal revolutions per minute, the bicycle drive provides
the rear wheel with up to 100 watts.
The entire drive unit (motor, transmission, electronic control) weighs no more
than 900 g. The LiION Mangan high-performance battery, which fits into a
conventional saddlebag, provides you with motor-assisted cycling lasting for
min. 45 minutes, depending on how hard you pedal. It weights just 1000 gr., has
a charge level indicator and active balancing.
June 2010
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Laidback in Canberra
Chris O’Leary
Visiting Canberra to pick up a second hand bent, Chris O’Leary discovers that
it’s a city well ahead of our own in cycling assets and ‘friendliness’, and there is
much to be gained by KiwiHPVers fuelling the Anzac spirit.
Laidback on the M5, Lake Burley, Canberra
Canberra, St Patricks Day, 11pm – I was sharing a room in a ‘30 buck a night
backpackers’ with five, drunken Irish builders, coming and going from festivities
- sitting up on a top bunk with an open suitcase smelling of beer and every item
of my clothing wet. Three special Emersons gifts intended for my OZHPV hosts
had been smashed by baggage handlers enroute. Not a great start.
The next morning sees me in a recumbent equivalent of a lolly shop – Ian
Humphries and his Flying Furniture Cycles – oh lordy hold me back! I was
surrounded by an amazing array of eye candy - Ian’s shop is full of trikes, low
racers, mid racers, high racers, folders, carbon beauties and accessories, oooh
the accessories. Ian impressed me with his knowledge and access to anything
recumbent, whether that be built up bikes, parts for a new build or the best
touring bags money can buy. Ian only sells ‘stock’ touring and high performance
recumbents that really “fly”. Everything in the shop he whole heartedly backs as
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being of good quality and design. If you’re looking at buying a recumbent new
or second hand definitely give him a call.
This was a major reason for me being in Canberra – I had been looking at
buying a Velokraft VK2, unfortunately a few months prior to the trip the family
Subaru’s engine disintegrated, and sadly I had to revise my budget. Ian assisted
with choosing an alternative and that decision is in my opinion a great choice – a
pre-loved M5 20/20 Shockproof, practical yet remarkably aero and fast.
To be honest I could’ve and should’ve tried every bike in the shop and mined
Ian for every scrap of knowledge more than what I did. Ian’s a one man band
doing absolutely everything in his busy business, so I cut him some slack, leapt
on the M5 and pedalled off.
Canberra’s city’s fathers have really placed alternative transportation at the top
of their town planning – commuting sans car is a breeze. The city is crisscrossed with kilometres upon kilometres of amazing bike and walking paths,
intersections across major roads are controlled by bike friendly traffic lights,
and there was virtually nowhere you couldn’t go by bike. Even the city’s buses
have bike racks to allow cyclists to commute one way if necessary. Only in
places like the Netherlands have I seen such facilities. I’ve always considered
Christchurch as a good example of a cycle friendly city but Canberra makes
Christchurch look undeveloped in comparison.
Three low speed falls heading into town on my first ride made for an embarrassing
Typical cycle path and the M5 waiting patiently
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intro to HPVing in Australia. Unbeknown to me Canberra is apparently well
known for its high percentage of well paid, well dressed, single women. Combine
distraction and riding my two wheeled bent for the first time and as our road
safety commercials say – you look a bloody idiot.
I rode with the occasional distraction and fall on the way in to meet up with
Peter Heal – long distance and Audax recumbent rider and like Ian, another
HPV legend. Pete is currently attempting the Around Oz Record Attempt on his
Velokraft VK2. Pete is an incredible guy – he’s built and ridden 15 bikes and
rides them on day rides that most of us might achieve over a few weekends.
And here am I tailing him through Canberra’s embassy district, and sharing a
coffee and muffin at one of Pete’s ‘cyclist’ bakeries. Our eventual destination was
Stromlo Forest Park Cycling Criterium Circuit. Stromlo rose out of the embers
of the 2003 bushfires, burnt forest not replanted, forming a natural firebreak
from the city which includes great locations like Stromlo bike park ; http://www.
stromloforestpark.com.au/
Arriving at Stomlo I was welcomed by The Mob - but alas no Powhiri - this
after all is Australia and these guys were an OZHPV group known as “The
Canberra Mob”. These boys looked more like serious Roadies than Recumbos
and their bikes were mean, lean commercial, and home built lightweight low
racers. Imagine turning up at an KiwiHPV event to be met by 8 lycra clad, trim
Bob Knight or Pete Hallam look alikes, all riding machines half the weight of
yours and looking like they eat Centuries for breakfast. I was out of my depth.
“For those about to die we salute you…”
Stromlo is a 1200m circuit, with a deceptive hill at one end and tight very fast
banked corners at the other. I launched myself into a hard and grinding lap
and produced a very slow handicap time to compete with the Mob. We raced
off the start line according to our handicap time. C’mon Kiwi ! I went as hard
as I possibly could over those few race laps and surprisingly triumphed over
the Mob. The circuit definitely requires some knowledge of when to apply the
The Canberra OZHPV ‘Mob’
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power to achieve a fast lap. I think I got faster by the lap as I learnt its quirks
and my handicap would’ve improved – quite unfair to my new cobbers. A hollow
victory, but not wanting to offend my hosts and in the interests of Anzac sporting
relations I took the win – somehow I don’t think they will be so generous the
next time !
See more here ;
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/cyclesplicer/Bike%20Stuff/Stromlo/
The knowledge these guys had of recumbents was huge, from riding long
distances, building, right through to racing. I think too often many of us see
Europe and the States as where the action is but from what I experienced our
Anzac mates could give the Northern Hemisphere a run for its money.
With a renewed outlook on all things cycling and recumbents I farewelled
Canberra and battled airlines over baggage restrictions. Expensive. Christchurch
International saw me, discussing GST and Duty with NZ Customs staff with an
open mind and cheery disposition. But that’s another story…..
I came back from Canberra discovering a place that welcomes cyclists in many
ways, from its path network, through to its citizen’s respect for cycling as a
means of transport. There is a definite model here for many New Zealand
cities. Australia has a vibrant and thriving community of HPVers. They race,
tour, commute, and build recumbents as good as anything I’ve seen. It would
be interesting to explore any form of KiwiHPV association with our Anzac
cousins. Ian Humphries and Flying Furniture are one heck of an asset and he’ll
be hearing from me again when I go looking for a new ‘ride’.
I look forward to riding again with The Mob’ – something tells me they haven’t
seen the last of me !
Don’t forget OzHPV Speed Challenge – Canberra – 22nd to 24th October 2010
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Nokia’s bike charger
We’ve been seeing dynamo-powered gadget bicycle chargers for, well, ever.
But it’s good to see a company with the global reach of Nokia getting into the
action with a €15ish kit all its own. Nokia says that a 10 minute bike ride at 6mph
(10kph) will produce enough power for 28 minutes of talk time or 37 hours of
standby.
The kit, primarily intended for developing
markets, ships globally before the end of
the year with a handlebar mount, dynamo,
and 2-mm charger jack. But there’s nothing
stopping you from picking up a micro USB
adapter (at your own cost) and using the
charger with Nokia’s smarter (and more power
hungry) handsets like the N97, N900 and
forthcoming N8** -- any micro USB handset
really, regardless of vendor. Coupled with
Nokia’s free turn-by-turn guided Ovi Maps,
the kit could be quit handy when navigating
the countryside on a long weekend bike ride,
or for navigating within cities, like, oh we don’t
know, Amsterdam.
** Nokia N8 can be charged over 2mm or micro USB connectors, fancy.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/03/nokias-15-bike-charger-will-abide/
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Honda Velomobile
Dutch velomobile designer Allert Jacobs spent three years creating the fuelefficient and shell-encased Aerocycle bike. The Aerocycle is actually a modified
version of a Honda Innova 125i that now includes a hand-crafted fiberglass
shell, steel tube frames, and aerodynamic cones and indicator lights.
Dutch efficiency enthusiast Allert
Jacobs has converted his new Honda
motorbike into a streamliner capable
of getting over 200 mpg (US) cruising
at 55 mph.
The Honda ANF125i Innova was
pretty efficient right out of the box,
since it followed the basic formula for
low fuel consumption: small size +
light weight + modest engine power.
Being a long time cyclist, motorcyclist and velomobile
enthusiast, Allert intuitively understands what many people
either don’t know or greatly underestimate: the enormous
impact of aerodynamics on fuel consumption.
Unlike the average person, he is not surprised by the fact that
a typical car burns 50% of its fuel overcoming air resistance
at just 40 mph (64 km/h). Or that the higher drag of a typical
motorbike means half of its fuel is used to overcome air drag
at just 15 – 20 mph (24 – 32 km/h)!
http://www.velomobiel.nl/allert/Recumbent%20motorbike.htm
ADVERTISEMENTS
Club member David Green is moving into a smaller home and wishes to sell one
of his HPVs. This is a self-built tricycle, with front wheel drive, and rear wheel
steering. Perhaps someone, like a street performer, may be interested in such
a vehicle. If interested, please contact David to discuss further.
David Green
6 Tothill Place, Christchurch 8053
phone: 03 352 4378 mobile: 021 111 4319 email [email protected]
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Price Reduced!
The Cab-Bike velomobile has a full self supporting glas fibre fairing. The bike is
ideal to put some advertising on it and finance it that way.
Manufacturing Date: 2008
Place of origin: Germany
Includes:
• 53T Chainring
• 14 Gear Rohloff Speed Hub
• 3 Gear Sturmey-Archer
Intermediate Hub
• Drum Brakes
• Rear Vision Mirror
• Lights: Indicators, Back light
and Inoled 20+ Front with charger
• Shell Seat w/Ventisit Matt
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Wheel Size 40-406
Wheel Covers (not shown)
Full Suspension
Front window wiper
Bicycle bell
Cycle Computer
Tyers: Primo Comet/
Marathon Supreme
• 152mm Cranks + spare
172mm Cranks
• SPD/Flat combi pedals
The Gelcoat and the windows have some scratches.
Distance traveled currently: 16000km
Manufacturer home page: http://www.cab-bike.com/english/
New price: $13000 Buy now $5500
Contact Details
Felix Hohener, Morrinsville 07 889 3416
velomobil @ ferina.org
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FRONT SCREENS by Graeme Holmes
Graeme Holmes, constructor of the Rapide velomobile has also been working
on a Perspex fairing/front windscreen. Anyone who has tried a front screen
will know how much comfort they can add to winter riding, which, along with
improved aerodynamics, make them a popular way to improve an HPV’s
practicality.
Graeme is keen to build further screens for Kiwi HPV members.
Those interested should contact him at: [email protected]
Aarn’s moulded products
MOULDED SEATS
NOSE CONE
Very comfortable seats,
as used on most HPC winners.
Bicycle:
Tricycle:
narrow,
with
rear
support ribs & head
rest support.
wide, with side support
flanges but no rear ribs.
Designed
to
give
a
professional finish and a
smooth aerodynamic profile
to the front of your corflute
fairing- the trickiest part of the
fairing to make. White colour.
Fibreglass $90 (incl GST)
Fibreglass $162 (incl GST), approx 990g
Carbon Fibre $389 (incl GST), approx 700g
Aarn: Phone (03)3881979 30 Email: [email protected]
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FOR SALE: SWIFT ADVENTURE TRICYCLE
For maximum comfort and handling in rough road conditions. This trike comes
from Michael Rogan in Victoria, Australia and assembled in NZ by a local
bike shop. Imported in August 2006, and although its sized to suit someone
who’s 6ft 3in, the length can be altered to suit a shorter person. I spent over
$5000.00 on the trike, import duty and freight and would like as near to that
as possible.
Contact Details:
Patricia Buffery (Rotorua)
Phone: (07) 348 0890
Cell: 021 171 3098
Email: [email protected]
CYCLE TRADING COMPANY
“More Choice, Better Service…”
While we stock the latest models of bicycles, we are not just a bicycle shop,
but delight in serving a niche market with regards to tandems, bicycle trailers,
unicycles, trikes and adult tricycles.
Cycle Trading Co also stocks parts of particular interest to HPV owners and
builders including a huge range of tyres, rims and spokes. After a 16 x 1 3/8”
Schwalbe Marathon tyre?
Cycle Trading Co has them in stock.
Ph: (03) 366 3760
[email protected]
27 Manchester Street, Christchurch
THE CYCLIER
Cranks, hubs, rims, tyres, cantilever bosses and other frame fittings,
20” mudguards plus a whole lot more.
Just in: Nu-Vinci infinitely variable hubs. Call for details.
Ph: (03) 343 6444
[email protected] – PO Box 8890, Christchurch
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