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Last weekend there was a 24 hours race in Ujezd in Czech Republic called K24. About 20 recumbents were participating incl. some pretty interesting ones. You could see there a Duo Quest driven by Ymte Sijbrandij and Allert Jacobs from Velomobiel.nl as same as Natrix2 and its owner Evina Navratilova. Among others there was also a homebuilt streamliner called Vaniczka 1st from Honza Friedl (Nink) and some other bikes which he has built and at the moment they have different owners. You could see also pretty much AZUB recumbents inlc. AZUB Eco and two prototypes of their HighRacer project which is quite quiet at the moment.

Finally the winner among women was Evina Navratilova with almost 454,4 km and Ymte with Allert were recumbent winners with 624,8 km. The absolute winner did 681,6 km what is perfect result under such difficult conditions.

Duo Quest velomobile and streamliner Vaniczka 1st - more about Vaniczka in next post

Duo Quest with Ymte and Allert inside

Carbon fully suspended lowracer made by Nink

And its owner Petr

Another bike by Nink - steel semi low racer

And light built by current owner Jirka

It was raining almost all the time so during the night many racers slept and their bikes were parked outside. You can see many recumbents here.

Also beautiful red eHub was assembled on one AZUB recumbent for testing.

Some of the AZUB guys used slightly modified AZUB Eco with Schwalbe Kojak tyres.

Last recumbent built by Nink - lowracer with simple tailbox

A trailer which is used by Velomobiel.nl for transport of their Quests and even Duo Quest.

Probably the bravest guy at the race. Pavel had only common clothes even in the heaviest rain and he did almost 450 km with his AZUB Max. Expect the Duo Quest the fastest man on recumbent.

And his home made light...

After 18 hours many racers already finished due to steady rain.

Where you can continue:
- Duo Quest velomobile
- Velomobile for two – Finally!
- Dutch recumbent races between 1983 and 1987
- Worried about knee strain? Want to climb faster? e-Hub is answer

This is really nice video of recumbent races in Netherland between years 1983 and 1987. It looks that the amount of racers grown as same as the color of videos. I like it as same as many other historical videos like the one we have shown here about a half a year ago. Look at it here.

If you can add some comments about the types of bikes and streamliners and velomobiles you see on the video here under, we will be very happy to read about them more. Thanks!

This is the best news which we have heard today. Same has managed it and improved his own speed record. It has happened yesterday in Battle Mountain, Nevada (USA). And the world highest human powered speed is… 132,4 km/h

And here you have him on video!

More informations and also great pictures you can find on: http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2008/speedchallenge-2008.htm

In fact the only one official cyling category in which the UCI alow to lie is handbiking. We come with a set of pictures of different handbikes. You can see that they are not same and even among handbikes there are several categories. It depends mostly from which part of backbone the racer is disabled. Some can move with the upper part of the body and can work more some cannot.

These pictures are a little bit older from 2003 WCH.

We have found next two pretty interesting videos about streamliners. The first one is a kind of introduction video of the european fastest bicycle which is owned and driven by Demajn Zabovnik (SLO). The other one is a little bit more interesting for me. The Blue Jay is definetely not that known as Eivie or Varna, but you can see pretty simple construction and the fairing is quite simple as well. But the guy managed more than 83 km/h!

Can you imagine riding 80 km/h by your own power on a flat road! Simply great.

K24 is pretty known race of single riders in the Czech Republic. Not many racers really races against each others or to win. It is mainly races where the main rival is the racer himself. It is a race where every and each rider has an idea or/and dream of how many kilometers he/she would like to manage. This year the start was on Friday (June 20th) in Ujezd u Brna at 4 p.m. The finish was after complete 24 hours.

There were also several recumbent riders as each year. We could see some homebuild recumbents, two Greenspeed trikes, the prototype of AZUB Highracer and some other models from AZUB, which is not surprise, because AZUB is a Czech company.

There were two fastest recumbents. One was riden by Jiri Hebeda and the other one by Jan-Friedrich Köhle. They both manage 397,6 km.