On your back Some articles from the periodicals of HPV-unions from Europe, Australia and Canada. 2019-2 Eu Autumn tour, photo Michael Ammann Supino2019-2 1 31 Kyle’s 6 hour and 1 hour Record Attempts Contents 42 by Kyle Lierich from Australia 38 4 To share experiences by Søren Flensted Möller, Denmark 34 Construction Report Phantom Mini-T by Tim Corbett from Australia 6 Journey to the North Cape 31 34 by Alve Henricson from Sweden 38 Soup Dragon Episode 2 by Russell Bridge in Laidback Cyclist, summer 2019 8 Racing in Räyskälä by eo Zweers, from the Dutch Ligets& 2019-3 42 A Purposeful Semi-Recumbent Tandem Tour in Western Canada 11 Recumbent activities in Finland by Peter and Serap Brown from Vancouver, Canada by Tero Linnanen, Finland 45 Recumbent activities in France in 2020 12 Cycling makes people happy by Marc Lesourd of AFV, France 6 by Alexey Ganshin, Ukraine 46 Bram Moens 35 years in business 14 Autumn tour to Alpe d’Huez by Wilfred Brahm in the Dutch Ligets& 2019-3 by Michael Ammann, Future Bike, in Infobul 210 50 Miles Kingsbury’s rst Quattro 18 Everyday mobility by Bram Smit and Willem Jan Coster in LIgfiets& 2019-3 by Werner Klomp, Recumbent bike club Vorarlberg, Austria 53 ‘Recumbent back’ 8 by Geo Searle in Laidback Cyclist, summer 2019 11 19 Literature recommendations by Heike Bunte, HPV Germany 54 Vélomobile and E-assist by Jean-Bernard Jouannel 4 20 e 24 hours of Shenington 26 by Marini of the Belgian HPV union 56 Quattrovelo with crank motor 53 50 by Denis Bodennec 19 23 On three wheels to Corfu 20 59 28 by Armin Ziegler, Future Bike Switzerland in Infobul 210 57 Conversion to an electric recumbent 46 58 bicycle 28 26 Rohlo reborn by Erwin Villiger, Future Bike, in Infobul 45 12 by Colin Wait in Laidback Cyclist, summer 2019 54 57 30 18 58 European HPV Co-operation, 28 Diversity on and along the race track Minutes of the Meeting of 27 April 2019 56 14 23 by Dieter Hannemann, Uli Bentlage and Jan Kranczoch by Andreas Hertting, HPV Germany in Infobul, periodical of the HPV Club, Germany 59 World championship 17–19 July 2020 30 Riding the velomobile to Rapperswil in Amsterdam-Sloten by Benedikte Löhrer, Future Bike Switzerland by Rembrandt Bakker, NVHPV 23 2 2018-1 The best recumbent stories of 2019 by Roel van Dijk is digital magazine is the result of co-operation Unfortunately the Italians do not manage to organize between European Human Powered Vehicle clubs. the World Championships in 2020. at is why it was nice to know that they had indicated in Germers- In 2019 it was once again possible to get a varied heim that it was not certain that it would succeed. collection of stories from many countries. is year During the meeting already was discussed, a plan there are also two stories from Scandinavia, to my B was needed. Because we received an early signal great joy. And even stories from Canada and Aus- from Italy, NVHPV from the Netherlands, together tralia. anks again to all those who co-operated. with the Bentlage brothers from A Race in the Park in Germany, can take over. e World Champion- e name of this magazine gave rise to discussion, ship will therefore be held in Amsterdam in 2020, see the report of the meeting in Germersheim on see page 59. page 58. e Italians say EuSupino is a meaningless On your back Some articles from the periodicals of HPV-unions name. But a combination with HPV is not prefe- e recumbent movement in Europe is small and from Europe, Australia and Canada. 2019-1 Eu Autumnal tour, rable because a search on the internet for HPV exclusive, so we have to work together. photo .... 2019-1 1 reveals rst Human Papilloma Virus. And let's face For that reason, the WHPVA is invited to join the Supino it, human powered vehicules also include ordinary next meeting during the Spezi in 2020. ere is EuSupino, a digital upright bicycles, scooters, wheelchairs, and so on. also enthusiasm to work together on their part. European magazine for ose who do not have English as their mother recumbent riders, was tongue do not usually know the term 'recumbent'. We have reached a new milestone, namely a web- created by contributions And as if this were not complicated enough, ori- site for this European co-operation. Although we from various authors ginally HPV stood for human-powered vehicles on are not a formal club, the name ehpva.org has been from dierent countries. land, on water and in the air. But, as others say, chosen for convenience. We thank Simon Bailey e copyright is left to in practice HPV only refers to recumbents. In the for setting up our new website. the authors. Netherlands, the HPV club is now called Ligetsver- eniging NVHPV, i.e. Recumbent association NVHPV. I wish all readers of this free magazine a very Lay-out Hans Several suggestions have been received for a new successful and adventurous 2020! < Nieuwstraten name for this magazine. Simon Bailey suggested to call it EuRecline. Lars Brunnermeier suggests to use Final editing Aero Velo or Aero-Cycle because it is mainly about air Roel van Dijk resistance, for cyclists. EuHPV is also a possibility. In short, it is an interesting and not unimportant point that will be discussed at the next meeting in Germersheim in 2020. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP A race in the park World Championship 17–19 July 2020 in Amsterdam. See page 59. 2019-2 3 To share experiences by Søren Flensted Möller, You can share your experiences in a split second Denmark, Velostrada.dk on various social media, but nothing surpasses to meet someone with similar interests in real life. However, this is not always easy if your interest is not so widespread that there are no others right in your immediate area who share the same interest. In my younger days, I had a motorcycle that was not produceinlarge numbers, which meant that to meet others I had to drive long distances to attend meetings where this motorcycle model and owner participated.Some years later I found out that there was something called velomobile, or the truth was that I searched the web for a 3-wheel bike with a faring. e word Cabin Bikes appeared. is word led me to the well-known person-inside velomobile, Carl-George Rasmussen, back then I didn't know who he was. A mail was written, a weekend I took o on my two wheel ‘upright bicycle’ to ride My Leitra with C.G. Rasmussen. e totally damaged Leitra. 250 kilometers to see what a Leitra was. To make the story shorter, a Leitra velomobile was ordered. It took about nine months before I could get it. It then meant that in those nine months, I could look for information on what velomobiles were and where they were. Back then, in 2009–2010 there was not so much online information about who owned a velomobile, luckily, I found the Danish club for recumbents. While waiting for my Leitra, I bought a used recum- bent that my local bicycle dealer had and would like to sell this one. en I could train to be a ‘recum- bent cyclist’ and participate in reclining bicycle events here in Denmark. Back then, there were about 200 members of this club. Meetings, cham- pionships were organized, the club even before I joined organized world championships for recum- bent bikes. When I got my Leitra, I participated in the Danish On my way home from Danish championships for So for me, it was Christmas Eve already November 24, championships for recumbents, maybe not with recumbent bikes. 2012, when I got my Strada. 4 2019-2 Nordic velomobile tour. Velomobiles in Oslo, Norway. the greatest success, but I met people with the are not enough volunteers, an association can same interest. shrink quickly. is also happened to the Danish Unfortunately, after cycling 34000 kilometers in two recumbent club, which meant that there were not years, my Leitra was hit by a car, 800 meters from so many events, in fact it ended in only one annual my home. e short distance meant I could drag meeting. I had cycled many and long trips alone, Leitra home, but it was totally damaged. Fortuna- such as to Paris to attend Paris–Brest–Paris and tely, the motorist acknowledged his responsibility, back home, but this to share experiences, with the more unfortunate it was to get a new velomo- others in real life I lacked. Again, I was lucky, in bile, would mean a long wait for this. I was in luck, Sweden, in Gothenburg, (3½ hours sailing by ferry) a new company was started in Denmark, a velomo - there are a greater number of velomobiles who bile center. ey could deliver a Strada with only would like to attend or make events... But again, four months delivery time, if you have tried to drive these events stopped after a couple of times. velomobile, this is also a long time, but much I knew that other ‘tours’ were made, especially better than the waiting time that was then 6 to those made by Josef Janning. ese are great tours. 12 month.Velomobilcenter.dk and and the Danish But it requires that a participant has a lot of time recumbent association began to collaborate on available, especially because when you come from making arran ge ments or meetings. the north, there is a long way to the starting point.