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This is a beautiful video about Eivie streamliner, about 1 hour world record holder Demjan Zabovnik from Slovenia and about all the life around cycling for speed.

more info on: evie.com

Just a few pictures from short recumbent trip with our friends.

In this video you can see an unbelivable shots of recumbents from years around 1940. Even a models which are similar to Hase Pino or some types of very compact recumbents which we can easly call micro bents. Unfornatenuly the video is from Czech television, so it is only in Czech language with some subtitles in German. At least here is a short translation:

0:00 Curious bicycles - “Time to time you can see in Prague some curious bikes which were developed by people who are still not satisfied and want to ride very comfortable and faster. On Strasnice track there was a meeting of recumbent owners. They wanted to show, what they are able to do on their bicycles. Micro bikes – bicycles which are smaller than scooter were racing against tandems, triplets, velocina and other bikes with strange names.”

0:58 Entertainers on one wheel - “Perfection in movements of entertainers needs a lot of practise. 62 years old acrobat teach a young artist to ride on a big wheel. —- This is not a good way. —- Another “bike” on legs of old entertainer. —-It seems that riding on two wheels is not so difficult. Let´s try it and we will see.”

2:31 Cycling celebration in Paris – “There were in fact two events. During one of them, 400 tandems went through the Paris and within the second one there appeared bicycles of different types.”

3:36 Unusual race – “For the second time the bicycle taxi drivers organized a race over Paris. There were many onlookers.”

4:22 Artistic family on a trip – “This is a shot from America. Even directly from New York city. All of them are pedaling and during the trip mother is able to sew a nice dress.”

5:00 Bicycle with “arm engine” – “An interesting invention from Koln am Rhein. You drive the bike by your legs and pedal by hands. And it works! But there was probably some problem when we do not see such bikes today.”

That is all from translation. It is pretty funny to see how the guy is starting with his recumbent and puting the foot on the pedal over the handle bars. Also the tandems and children trailers from Paris seems to be much older than Cannondale or Burley who started to build such trailers in seventies, not talking about Chariot or Croozer. And the rowing bike. I am not 100% sure that it was driven by feet, because the comment is obviously done only according to the shots, but it is definetely nice to see that recumbents are much older than one would expect.

fietser main page

When you look around some web pages of different recumbent manufacturers you realize, that many of them simply do not know what a good web page should contain. What are you looking for, when you search for a new recumbent? Are that the technical details. Or are you looking mainly for pictures of technical details?

One web page where we have been missing good pictures for a long time was the fietser.be

But they made step ahead and prepared beautiful, although simple, web gallery of many of their WAWs, Brieses, Bakmobiles etc. And you can find there also some pictures from different bicycle events.

And why such gallery is so important? If you are one of those happy owners of WAW or Bries or even some other velomobile, you can see there many customizations of other owners, and if you are looking for one velomobile (probably more of you), you can see the WAW from many views which is pretty important. Isn´t it?

And for those who are just interested in fast fully covered trikes, I recommend to see at least galleries of WAW no. 8, 26, 27, 43, 47 and if you want also sad end of WAW no. 18. The right link is fietser gallery

fietser gallery

I do not know how you, but we like the idea of faster bike than car. At least the vision that you can over take the car on (or better in) bike. As many of you know there is a race in Battle Mountain (USA) each year, where the racers are trying to get the highest speed possible.

To read more about this race on speed challenge

It is nice to see the pictures of the crazy fast bicycles, butmuch better is to see videos. That is the reason why we have picked-up the best videos about the world fastest bicycles and publish them here.
Let´s enjoy!

probably the best video which introduce the speed challenge and which explain all about high speed biking

and one more about girls and speed records

beautiful comment about bicycles and canoes if you watch the video directly on youtube.com

incredible aerial video of worl fastest bicycles in action

this is a little bit out of the range, but you can see here, how such machine is builded by group of students

This is another stream of pictures from so known recumbent show in Germany. From 2005 we have more pictures of production recumbents than of homebuild ones. If you are interested more in work of homebuilders, let´s have a look into gallery from 2003, which we have posted few days ago.

You can clearly see that the bussines has been pretty much the same since that time without many great news like in market with upright bikes, where you can see each year new and new improvements.

Well, it is still question if the improvements are not only marketing so called “improvements”. But at least the world of upright bikes lives.