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Steppe by Steppe – a journey on four wheels
Are you interested what this vehicle means? It´s name is Quike and it is machine which is supposed to start in April a long long journey in Central Asia. The rider will be australian couple Roger and Megan. They plan to cross 7 countries during their 12.000 km long expedition which will take about 12 months.
Especialy Roger is experienced adventurer. He crossed the Greenland Icecap unsupported as the youngest person ever in 2007. The Quike is a bike (???) specialy designed and build only for this expedition. They expect to spend long time in areas with low civilization so the bike is able to carry loads up to 200 kg. It has four big wheels to be able to cross terrains which are not suitable for ordinary bikes or cars. The machine was built in cooperation with Paul Sims from Greenspeed and right now it is equiped by two Rohloff hubs, FOX suspensioned forks and hydraulic brakes.
Roger and Megane has updated their web page which looks very very nice and which has a lot of information about the project with many interesting pictures from their testing. Let´s visit www.steppebysteppe.com.au
No commentsAgatha and Piotr – some more pictures
We have added links to galleries of Piotr and Agatha´s great journey. Agatha is disabled so she traveled on a special trailer and was towed by Piotr. Very nice polish couple. You can visit a post about them here.
No commentsAgatha and Piotr
Agatha and Piotr
Yes, they are from Poland. Yes, they cycle together. Yes, she is disabled. As you see on the picture, Piotr is the only one who really pedal and Agatha is siting in her beautiful suspensioned trailer. Right now, they are on their trip from polish Wroclaw to Wien (A) and through Bratislava (SK) and Brno (CZ) back to Wroclaw. Thay would like to cycle all this 1000 km long trip in about 18 days. Their main motivation is to show, that life with disabled people can be so full of experiences, full of enjoyable moments, full of adventures. They want to show that disabled people can also live as “abled” people as same as you and me.
On their trip, they are using a Velokraft trike and specialy made trailer.
Velokraft trike
They are follwed by three other cyclist. Let´s visit their web page and you can also see more pictures here:
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