I took a short ride for exercise this morning, covering 31 km in 54 minutes with the velomobile, including traffic lights, negotiating other road users etc.
The Mango is far from the quickest velomobile available nowadays, and mine is fitted with slower puncture proof "winter" tyres because I really don't like fixing punctures in the rain, but for the same expended effort it still consistently goes about 15-20% faster than my road/racing bike or my two wheeled recumbent, a touring model which is a little slower than the road bike.
Add in the low maintenance (leading to low running costs), the weather protection and three wheels making winter cycling much safer and there's so much to like. This is the most efficient transport mode in existence and it's also very practical. It's also fun, of course.
It's described as "the largest radiotelescope in the world which can operate at the lowest frequencies that can be observed from earth" and it's about a thousand km wide, which makes it a nice example of peaceful international scientific cooperation.
UCI really screwed things up for ergonomics when they outlawed recumbents in the 1930s.
"The press coverage kicked off a long-overdue conversation about women’s saddle issues and aired one of pro cycling’s open secrets: that some women suffer so much damage to their genital areas they resort to surgery—labiaplasty—to keep riding."
Tomnaverie Stone Circle near Tarland in Aberdeenshire. One of 99 "recumbent" stone circles in north-east Scotland, it was built over 4,000 years ago on a hilltop that has since been cut into by a quarry that is very close to the circle. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/tarland/tomnaveriecircle/index.html
This recumbent bike was abandoned near my house a few days ago, Victoria BC. Anyone able to reconnect it with it's owner?
Please boost! #yyj#victoria#bikes#recumbent
Ihr kennt das: Felgenband und Schlauch kriechen mit der Zeit in die Speichenbohrungen, bis die Luft raus ist… Doch das sollte nun der Vergangenheit angehören.
And the prototype of a reversible #cargobike conversion kit similar to the #Xtracycle#FreeRadical, just not a rear extension but a front extension including indirect steering using the donor's front fork to pick up the steering movement 🤩: https://altus.bike/
To the greatest extent possible I do my work by human power, but there are limits to how much I can control.
This morning I made a delivery to someone who lives in a village in Drenthe so that delivery was made 100% by human power as I rode there and back in my velomobile.
Parts ordered by people who live thousands of km away are a different story. I can then only control the first few km. So I go as far by bike as I can and then those parcels continue their journeys by commercial shipping companies.