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Velo Vision Sample Article CONTENTS DECEMBER 2007 Velo Vision is published quarterly 4 News 32 Short Reviews Technical notes by Velo Vision Ltd. Velo Vision Sample Article A camper trailer, new Rohloff rumours, Subscription details, news and updates can be found on www.velovision.com Drymer trike, Greenspeed’s Snowbeast, 32 Lights fantastic: three battery-free ideas This Acrobat PDF file should ISSN 1475-4312 a Velo Vision trip to SPEZI and more tested. Reelights, Pedalite and display correctly on almost 3M Sekuclips This PDF is a sample of the material in Velo Vision Magazine any computer. If you encounter The Environmental Centre, St Nicholas 9 Cycle 2007 34 No more neckstrap: a better way to Velo Vision Issue 28, December 2007. The problems the first thing to try is Fields, York, YO10 3EN, UK We report from the UK cycle show in carry an SLR camera by bike? to download the latest version of Tel/Fax +44 1904 438 224 Earl’s Court, London 35 Over the moon: cycling again with the contents page is shown right. (from UK, 01904 438 224) Moonsaddle Acrobat reader from the Adobe Email [email protected] 12 Pedal porters 36 Pitlock vs Pinhead: we test two security website: www.adobe.com Website www.velovision.com Car-free cycling culture on Mackinac quick-release systems EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Peter Eland Island, Michigan, USA. 37 Books: Velomania, Crap Cycle Lanes, To get an idea of our current output, please If that fails, please send me an ART DIRECTOR: Brian Holt WEB PROGRAMMER: Simon Ward cycling misadventures, the sociology of visit email and I’ll try to sort it out. PRINTER: Stephens & George 15 Bicycling Blind cycling and Practical Pedal magazine Magazines Ltd, Merthyr Tidfil, Wales, Riding with Tandem Israel in the desert UK. Tel 01685 388 888 Small print north of Eilat 40 Readers’ bikes www.velovision.com PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Issue 29: March 2008 16 Recycle by cycle 40 Ride the Lightning: a P-38 owner reports Issue 30: June 2008 A Canadian couple with a commercial 43 An inventive velocar: visiting a Swedish I don’t much like copy Issue 31: September 2008 where you will find, amongst much else, full Issue 32: December 2008 recycling company – and a big bike trailer pioneer protection and legalese, but a 44 Power and posture: could a new Velo Vision is a member subject/author indices, sample articles to few things need saying: of INK, trade association 18 Just the Tikit position bring benefits? of the alternative press in We review the eagerly-awaited quick folder 47 Big in front: a new take on front wheel download and an online shop where you can the UK. www.ink.uk.com from Bike Friday, the Tikit. drive subscribe. You are free to print the Velo Vision and Velo-Vision We weren’t first with the name. 22 Ride the roughest roads 48 Letters document out for your personal Velo-Vision (note the hyphen) is a Testing the Tout-Terrain Panamericana Triple-decker trailers, the Tour de Fat, progressive HPV-friendly bike shop use, but not for resale or for full-suspension touring bike: a bike for a novel drive system and more If you have any problems or suggestions about in Körten, near Bergisch-Gladbach, anyone else. Please do not Germany, who also make their own the toughest tours the magazine in general, or this PDF article in recumbents. Velo Vision magazine is 53 Subscribe to Velo Vision make it available online without working in friendly harmony with 26 The ’cumbent for children How to subscribe, back issues, and details Velo-Vision in Germany. particular, please email me at permission. A cycling family review the Altena-Bike of our distributors worldwide Velo Vision is printed on paper Estrellita, a new child-sized recumbent produced from sustainable forests 54 Advertisements to Nordic Swan standards. [email protected] To protect the copyright 28 A spirited ride The first place to look for specialist The Moulton Esprit on the road – does it products and services of Velo Vision and of our deliver AM magic at close to TSR price? I hope you enjoy the read. contributors, modification of this document, and copying of BUILDING THE FUTURE details with us, for the feedback of fellow the contents, may have been cyclists and designers. Each stage of the disabled. Ample proof this issue, if any were needed, process requires some determination, some that the instinct for innovation is as strong get-up-and-go, some skill and a certain as ever in the cycling world. We have clever, bravery, and for this alone they deserve our Words and images remain novel and functional solutions in all of congratulations and thanks. our test bikes and accessories, particularly Whether the ideas ‘catch on’ or not, we’re Peter Eland copyright Velo Vision and the perhaps the Bike Friday Tikit with its all richer for the experience. It’s a privilege ingenious cable-actuated folding system. that so many innovative designers have Editor and Publisher, original contributors. Please COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Riding the Esprit. Photo by Peter Eland. Then there are the reader contributions: chosen Velo Vision as the forum to share their Velo Vision don’t reproduce anything people who, having come up with an idea, ideas, and we’ll keep on doing our best to do OPPOSITE: No fare dodging for Velo haven’t just talked the talk, they’ve actually them justice. without express permission. Vision! Waiting for a train, Tikit at the ready (sorry!) at Berwick-upon-Tweed gone and built bikes to put their concept station. Photo by Peter Eland. into practice. And then boldly shared the Peter Eland ISSUE 28 DECEMBER 2007 VELOVISION 3 PRODUCT REVIEW MOULTON ESPRIT A SPIRITED RIDE The £2200 Moulton Esprit is the latest evolution of the full-suspension spaceframe bikes which pioneered the idea of performance small-wheelers. But could it make a Moultoneer out of me? FIRST IMPRESSIONS boss just above the bottom bracket Our review Esprit arrived in the for the rear pannier lower support, customary fairly small Moulton too. Bottle cage mounts are fitted on box, pointing up the space-saving the front of the seat tube. potential of the separating frame Our bike was finished in a (see panel overleaf). Assembly took discreet dark, almost grey green. just a few minutes, mainly taken The dropouts are neatly cut from up by removing the packaging. Our stainless steel, and are unpainted. test bike had done the rounds of The rear suspension pivot is a number of publications before just behind the bottom bracket. A arriving with us, so please ignore any rubber suspension unit (available signs of use visible on the photos. in two hardness grades) provides The trademark Moulton lattice cushioning, and the swingarm frame uses the same small-diameter also supports a neat little stainless steel tubing as their top Double steel chain guide which effectively Pylon model, brazed neatly onto the prevents the chain jumping off the larger tubes which form seat and single front chainring. A mounting head tubes and bottom bracket. The plate for a front derailleur is small ‘edge’ tubes wrap neatly round provided on the main frame, along the head and seat tubes, and close with all necessary cable guides, in by are fitted the mounting points case you decide to upgrade to a for front and rear panniers. There’s a double chainring in future. A stainless steel chain guide There’s a preload adjuster for the is fitted to the single-chainring front suspension, and also a rubber version of the Esprit. bump stop in case you bottom out. BACKGROUND bikes (£2700+) but rather more The Moulton spaceframe bikes than a TSR, which range from have for some years been divided around £900 to £1450, or the £1250 between the relatively affordable non-spaceframe Bridgestone, as Pashely-made TSRs (as reviewed reviewed in Issue 16. A version in Issue 21) and the custom-made of the Esprit with drop bars and and considerably more expensive double chainring costs £2400, and a AM and New Series ranges. The frameset is available from £1480. new Esprit model is an evolution A range of accessories is available, of the AM Series, with a somewhat including mudguards, large and wider spaceframe (for extra small racks front and rear, and bags rigidity) and narrower tubes, to match. Our bike was fitted with somewhat simplified suspension the (standard) MKS removable (rubber rather than ‘Hydrolastic’ pedals and optional Brooks Swift at the back), redesigned forks, and leather saddle (£169.99) instead of numerous detail changes. the standard Fi’zik model. Esprit The Esprit costs £2200 in the bikes are built to order, so contact version tested, price-wise a little Moulton to make changes to any more affordable than the full ‘AM’ aspect of the specification. 28 VELOVISION ISSUE 28 DECEMBER 2007 ISSUE 28 DECEMBER 2007 VELOVISION 29 PRODUCT REVIEW MOULTON ESPRIT Both wheels are built with 24 spokes It supports a set of ‘Mosquito’ bars, no less than you’d expect on a bike THE RIDE it’s how my own town bike is set in the Moulton 17" (369) rim size, and quite narrow at around 40 cm, and of this price. The first impression of riding the up. It puts the wrists into a relaxed, Separation are fitted with Schwalbe Stelvio 32 covered in dense Grab-on foam. The seatpost is a long alloy model Moulton is that it’s so light it’s almost straight position, and the fingers fall The Esprit is separable without mm tyres. A nice touch is the offset The brake levers are reverse-pull from Nitto.
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