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On Your Back Some Articles from the Periodicals of European Eu HPV-Unions On your back Some articles from the periodicals of European Eu HPV-unions. 2020-3 Supino 2020-3 1 Contents 38 3 Editorial 40 Solar velomobile from Alve by Roel van Dijk, NVHPV, the Netherlands by Honza Galla, www.recumbent.news 4 EHPVA meeting April 25, 2020 42 e Dijker, a novel concept by Andreas Hertting, HPV Germany by Kees Jan Heijboer from the Netherlands 5 WHPVA Championships 2021 46 Soup Dragon 16–19 July by Mike Burrows in Laidback Cyclist, summer 2020 6 Carl Georg Rasmussen, 48 ings they are a-changing the father of the Leitra and it’s not the UCI by Wilfred Brahm, the Netherlands by Jan Trenson 11 Velomobile Seminar 9 50 e ‘Coronapistes’ in France September 1, 2, 2021 Brussels by Marc Lesourd from AFV, France 12 On the road with the Alpha 7 52 e Val Veni trip by Willem Jan Coster, NVHPV, the Netherlands by Giovanni Eupani from Italy 18 Velomobile accident with the Alpha 7 56 A single track recumbent bike by Werner Klomp, recumbent bike club Vorarlberg, Austria by Jan Kranczoch, HPV Germany 19 Building my dream 61 e Oliebollentocht 24 40 by Pete Watson in Laidback Cyclist 140, summer 2020 by Maarten Sneep, the Netherlands 6 22 Autumn Tour Northern Italy 2020 32 19 61 by Michael Ammann, Future Bike Switzerland 31 5 12 56 46 42 26 Velomobile Challenge 202020 11 54 interview with Alve Hendrikson, Sweden 48 50 4 38 31 e Case for Long-Distance Greenways by Brian Robertson, Cyclox, UK 18 52 22 32 e Virketis, inspired by 1900’s race cars by Evaldas Virketis, Telšiai, Lithuania 38 e Paddlewheeler by Peter Brown, Vancouver, Canada 2 2020-3 in corona times In the third year of this magazine, the corona crisis is the talk of the town. The crisis also affected recumbent cyclists and our European cooperation. Unfortunately, Spezi was nally canceled, even after postponement until August. And so there was no EuHPV meeting in Germersheim with represen- tatives from the dierent countries. I was just so looking forward to the informal drink afterwards. by Roel van Dijk Fortunately, we were able to use modern techni- ques and a Zoom video meeting was held. Many EuSupino, a digital subjects were discussed, including the name of European magazine for this magazine. As shown on the cover, the name recumbent riders, was remains EuSupino. created by contributions from various authors Unfortunately, most races were canceled and even from dierent countries. the 2020 World HPV Championships in Amsterdam e copyright is left to could not take place. at was unfortunate for the the authors. participants but also because much organization had already been done. It was gratifying that the Editorial board aforementioned meeting agreed to postpone the Roel van Dijk, NL, championships in Amsterdam to 2021. nal editing. Giovanni Eupani, IT. One of the objectives of the collaboration is to Jiři Hebeda, CZ. exchange articles for the national magazines. In a Jan Kranczoch, D, year with few activities, fewer stories are created, ad interim. so it was increasingly dicult for the various clubs Marc Lesourd, F. to make an attractive magazine. It helped enormous- Carl Georg Rasmussen, ly that we could ‘borrow’ stories from each other. DK. A new step forward for EuSupino is the formation Brian Robertson, UK. of an editorial board. is means that the work can be done by several people and also gives more Lay-out guarantee for continuity into the future. e mem- Hans Nieuwstraten, NL. bers of the editorial team help to collect articles. e English also help to polish the English a bit. Next year, Covid-19 will still impose restrictions on us, but I hope that some competitions, joint tours, fairs and so on can take place again. I wish you all a pleasant reading. Keep cycling, stay healthy! < 2020-3 3 April 25, 2020 EHPVA Video conference via Zoom by Andreas Hertting Participants Roel van Dijk, NL, chairing the confe- Facebook or Slack. Alan supports Facebook. Alan competitions such as the World Championships. rence. Rembrandt Bakker, NL, organiser of World raised the objection, that Facebook is hated by Rudi Cools, Toni Cornelissen and Rembrandt championship Amsterdam. Rudi Cools, B. Brian some. Brian supports also the idea of a Facebook- Bakker will try to make a proposal. At the end Robertson, UK, set up Zoom online. Alan Goodman, group, even if there are Facebook-haters. Simon Marc Lesourd joined the conference and said, that UK. Simon Bailey, UK website. Carl-Georg Rasmussen, wants to provide a link on the website. the time trial championship for September is not DK. Werner Klomp, AU (present just at the beginning). Roel proposes that Alan, Brian and Simon should cancelled until now, but every event until August Michael Döhrbeck, CH. Bram Luyckx, B. Edgar Teufel, elaborate a solution, which was conrmed by would be prohibited. Roel closes the meeting. < D, representing WHPVA (not visible but via written these members. messages). Jan Kranzcoch, D. Andreas Hertting, D, taking minutes. Marc Lesourd, F (from 15:35 pm). World Championships e third point is the ques- tion which HPV club will organize the World Cham- 40 minutes of Zoom Roel welcomes all participants pionships in which year. In 2023 France will be for this meeting. e meeting was limited by Zoom the host land with land-, water- and air-vehicles. to forty minutes of time. He added, that Zoom was Roel announces, that the World Championship not accepted by some, that they prefer Signal to in Amsterdam will not take place this year (2020) hold the video-conference. He delivers three main because of a governmental decision to not allow points to discuss for the meeting, which refers the any events of this kind until September. Rembrandt personnel aspect, the organisational matters and Bakker talked about some details and proposed the agenda for the European association. to postpone it into 2021, because the preparing work for it would not be completely in vain. Roel Minutes of last meeting First point refers to Heike reported that the German HPV club will give way Bunte, who is not the ECF-delegate, which was to postpone his country being host land for a year false in the former minutes from the last meeting to the Dutch. at the SPEZI 2019. Renaming the magazine e fourth point is the More European communication Second point is to renaming of the magazine EuSupino. Roel said improve communication within the European HPV there were the proposals EuRecline (Simon Bailey) Association, the EHPVA. First Simon suggests soc- and Aerocycle (Lars Brunnermeier). Roel makes ial media, instead of mass email contacts which clear, that EuSupino has no sensible meaning in Ita- can b e complicated for communication. R oel poi- lian. It was proposed and accepted that the name nts out that one or two meetings in a year are not EuSupino will not be changed. enough to get something working well within the cooperation of European HPV clubs. Is the website Other questions Carl-Georg Rasmussen was asked a solution? Simon mentions that as the website is about what he thinks about the future of the Euro- available at any time throughout the year, a forum pean work can be, but the microphone did not work. could b e hosted on the web site with each natio- An additional question was about the points one nal club nominating someone as an administrator. can earn at European competitions. Rudi Cools However, since few people visit the website on a made this point and is in favour of creating a freq uent b asis, he proposes social media such as common points system for all countries and other 4 2020-3 World Human Powered Vehicle Association Speed Championships Amsterdam-Sloten, Spaarnwoude WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 16–19 July 2021 www.cyclevision.nl Photo Bas de Meijer, Utrecht A race in the park 2020-3 5 The father of the Leitra Carl Georg Rasmussen On the Leitra website you will find a video with a very four or three wheels. They were mainly used for racing. nice interview with Mr. Leitra. Carl Georg Rasmussen Before production started, Carl Georg, driving a proto- is an engineer and also a PhD, so he is a scientist. Carl type, was stopped by the police. The cops thought they Georg Rasmussen was at the time of that interview were holding a UFO. Explaining that it was a bike with ‘only 76 years old’. Every year he cycled another ten to a cabin without an engine didn’t help. The prototype twelve thousand kilometres. He is now 85 years old and was confiscated. Carl Georg had to walk his way home still cycles more than eight thousand a year. Carl Georg without a jacket in the winter cold. He filed a complaint By Wilfred Brahm, is a pioneer and you don't become one just like that. with the Ministry of Justice and a week later the bike photos Jürgen Eick, was returned to the Technical University where he Wilfred Brahm. For him it started with the oil crises of 1974 worked. The bike was later inspected in Denmark for From Ligfiets& 2020-3 and 1978. The motorways were empty on use on public roads. Technically the prototype was found Sundays, petrol was scarce and the bicycle to be in order, but lawyers thought you were sitting seemed to have the future. A threshold for too deep. A friend who owned an MG sports car turned cycling is for many people the weather: cold, wind and out to have his eyes two centimetres deeper when rain.
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