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Tripod looks as a new velomobile on the velomobile scene. At least I have not seen it yet. The producer is Columbia Cycle Works and here is what they have written on their web page:

“Columbia Cycle Works, LLC is the manufacturer and seller of the Tripod, a fully enclosed commuter tricycle. The Tripod was developed as a sporty, economical and ecologically sustainable alternative to fossil fuel based commuter vehicles. Columbia Cycle Works is located in Portland, Oregon. We invite you to explore our website and learn more about an exciting new way to commute to work or just get around town.”

Many of you already know. Many don´t. There are not many informations about the new velomobile from most known velomobile producer – from Velomobiel.nl. Their new model´s name is Strada and one can hardly find any picture of it on internet. The idea is based on the Mango velomobile (produced in Ligfietsgarage Groningen now) which was developed and produced in Velomobiel.nl few years ago. But Strada has 26″ rear wheel. Compare to Quest, Strada has open front wheels, it is shorter and it has bigger “smurf hat” – the bump behind the rider´s head.  And you can have it in any RAL color you want, which is not possble with Quest. As same as Quest, you got the Strada fully equipped for riding, with spare tube, service kit, lightweight pump, lights and a velomobile bag which fits inside next to the seat.

Thanks to the open from wheels and shorter wheel base Strada has shorter turning radius which makes it more usefull in cities and in case you need to turn on very small place. The cost of this advantage is worse aerodynamic and lower speed. But it seems to be a true velomobile from Velomobiel.nl with perfect aerodynamic shape what makes it fast anyway.

We will come with some more news from Velomobiel.nl soon. You can wait also a double interview with Allert Jacobs and Ymte Sijbrandij – two main guys from Velomobiel.nl.

Few posts ago, we have mentioned a polish velomobile. Finally the story is a little bit different, because Maciej Kaczmarek from Poland seems to be only a maker and the velomobile is a new version of Cab-Bike – originaly a german velomobile company which is pretty known in EU as same as in US.

The old web site of Cab-Bike seems to be pretty long time not updated and there is a new web on http://www.info-cab-bike.de.tl/Home.htm

Here are some new pictures from their new web.

Where to continue:

- Amphibian velomobile
- Russian velomobile homebuildres
- Vaniczka home made streamliner
- Recumbent trike fairing

Here is a nice video of Sunrider velomobile with electric asist in standard. The video is from USA, but the producer is from Holland.

Where you can continue:

- Amphibian velomobile
- Russian velomobile homebuildres
- Velomobile from Poland
- Recumbent trike fairing

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We have found some pictures of new velomobile which is developed by Maciej Kaczmarek from Poland. Maciej has already have some experiences with recumbents and recumbent fairings mostly from composites, so it is not that big surprise that he is working on velomobile. This one seems to be at least in two prototypes with pretty nice design, specific place for front and rear lights as same as side lights. The interesting thing is that the red unit has a steering wheel instead of bars. We will see, how the development will continue and how the production will look. Also the final price will be important, of course.

Links:
Original polish internet page which informs about the new project
Original gallery with even more pictures

Where you can continue:

- Amphibian velomobile
- Russian velomobile homebuildres
- Vaniczka home made streamliner
- Recumbent trike fairing

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I have the feeling that we often look at those beautiful expensive bikes, we dream about them, some save money to can buy them. We admire all those crazy speeds which you can reach in fully faired recumbents or velomobiles. But most often we just dream…

But russian guys who stands behind the velodreamer.com do not only dream about such bicycles, but they work to change their dreams into reality. And if you look into gallery here under, you see that they have built many different projects and they fullfiled many of their dreams.

Yes, you can see that the bikes are equiped by very poor components and also te look is not one which we would really admire, but what we can admire is that they do what they obviously love and that they can test their maximum speeds in homemade streamliners.

Let´s follow them, let´s fullfil any of your dreams…

This is probably the most interesting page from their huge web.