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Bentrideronline has posted a message about one hour speed record of 91,556 km. The rider was Francesco Russo from Swiss and his bike Eiviestretto. The machine itself is pretty interesting as it was built in cooperation of Francesco and Demjan Zabovnik. Both of them have lot of experiences in building and riding very very very fast bikes. The story about the record can be found here and here we have a story about the bike iteslf which can be found on the same web page too.

Well done Francesco and Demajn!

After the Dekra-Event 2010 Damjan Zabovnik and me joined together to build a streamliner and brake the One-Hour-World-Record. The result is a team who is very experienced in building and riding speedbikes. Exactly one year after our decision to go this way together I set the World Record.

The Eiviestretto (Eivie + Ristretto) is based on Damjan Zabovnik’s Eivie III. So the rider goes backwards, head first and lying on his back, he uses a mirror for navigation. The shape is slightly modified, as I am taller and have longer legs than Damjan. We improved steering mechanism in cooperation with Leon Plestenjak (company 3D konstrukcije), to make more space for the helmet and head. I am very tight inside the vehicle, but I still can steer, breath and pedal normally. Tolerances are within milimeters. The transmission was also redesigned, using different configuration of bearings and better materials, so it provides more efficient power transfer to the rear – driving wheel. Front wheel – steering wheel has a shape of a plate and is not symmetrical, inside the front wheel are steering bearings, instead of the head tube above the wheel as by ordinary bikes. Eiviestretto also has no steering cables, but it has a push-rod instead.

If you think that this is a cockpit of an airplane, be sure that it is not. If you want to know more, click and continue reading.

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There are hundreds of recumbent videos on Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe and on all other servers. But this one about recumbent off-road ride is interesting because of the way how it was taken. It was taken from horse! Look and enjoy…

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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.

This vehicle is absolute surprise. Can you imagine amphibian velomobile? I have seen some amphibian bikes usualy with ugly look but this machine is so nice!

It is a homebuilt velomobile with linear pedaling, hydraulic steering with steering wheel (!) and electric assist. And the most interesteing thing is that it can be used as a boat!

On the web page www.esoteric-david.eu you can find some more pictures from the building process and above pictures also 6 links to great videos. The best one is here which shows the velomobile going into water.

We hope to come with more information soon.

Oh, I forget. The name of builder is David Buchwaldek

The rear part of czech amphibian velomobile which is probably the nicest amphibian human powered vehicle I have ever seen

3D visualisation of the amphibian velomobile called HEPAV

sharp nose of the HEPAV amphibian velomobile

amphibian velomobile from Jan Jan on Vimeo.

Where you can continue:
- Vaniczka home made streamliner
- Recumbent trike fairing

We have found quite nice recumbent trike fairing and tailbox. It seems that it is some kind of student design project and unfornatenuly thanks to language which is not understandable for us, we cannot provide you with more information. The blog of the designer is here, but… If you are the designer, please add some comment about your project. Thanks!