Ben Godall of australian Trisled trikes and velomobiles has announced on his Facebook page he plan to fight in the World Human Powered Speed Championships in Battle Mountain, Nevada, USA in autumn 2012. Here is what he writes there just yeasterday:
“Ever since I was a boy I have loved going fast, especially under my own steam in a human powdered vehicle! I’ve always loved exploring this limit and there has always been little voice in my head asking “how fast can you go Ben?”

Half a lifetime of experiences, relationships and building my business of building HPV’s for others have prevented me from answering this question. Until now!
I’ve decided to spend most of my free time and funds in 2012 training and custom building a Speed bike HPV to enter the World Human Powered Speed Championships in Nerada desert USA.

I’m not treating this as a land speed record attempt, but rather a well being exercise. To achieve my highest speed I’ll need to tap into all the knowledge and resources of my community, all of my experience of HPV building and prepare both my body and mind.
I don’t think I can set a new land speed record and simply aim to be within reach of the elite few…But who knows! All I do know is I’ve got to have a go at this before I get to old ”

Sylvia has traveled over 6,000 miles across the US with an EcoSpeed Mids-Drive 700W on a Terracycle CargoMonster. In this interview she discusses her experiences touring with an electric assist. She has also travlled quite some countries before with an electro. You can find much more about her expeditions on www.myrtlethethurtle.com

You can find a video under the link here under. Unfornatenuly only in Czech, but with nice shots and good atmosphere.

Source: TV Hradec

Every time I visit ukrainean recumbent page called www.velodreamer.com I am surprised by their projects and the way how fast they can change their ideas to reality.The main man behind the page is Alexey Ganshen and his wife Karina Achmedova has made few nice recumbent cartoons. She writes on the page, that she admire Varna streamliners and that Sam and Barbara are her idols. That´s why you can see so many streamliners of Varna shape on her cartoons.

See all of them here.

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.

Every year there is a Czech Recumbent Meeting organised on different place of the Czech Republic. You can find more informations about the previous years in the History section of this web.
The recumbent meeting in year 2011 will be organized in Czech Paradise in a small town Příhrazy near the city Mnichovo Hradiště not far from Prague. Every year there is a Czech Recumbent Meeting organised on different place of the Czech Republic. You can find more informations about the previous years in the History section of this web.

Date
Meeting will be organised from Thursday 9th of September till Sunday 11th September, but you can come even sooner.

Programm
We plan to do couple of nice trips together which will go through the near countryside. (more in the Programm).

Evenings
Every evening there will be some slide shows or recumbent movies presented.

Registration
You can find Registration section on this web with a little larger on-line register form. Please fill it completely, add your picture with recumbent and choose the days you will participate. All that will help us to organise the meeting as smooth as possible. In the register form there is also a possibility to choose the past Czech Recumbent Meetings you have been participated in last years. Based on that a table of participants will be available. We hope that you will enjoy such feature.

Car Sharing
We understand that for many of you it is a long journey from your home to Czech Republic nad back and also the bike can be pretty big complication. That is the reason why we would like to help you out to find somebody who can offer some space in the car as same as we would like to help you to car owners to fill their empty spaces. If you will have some space in your car for other participants and/or for their bikes, please fill as much information as possible into the register form, like your route, date you plan to go there and back, number of places for persons or bikes, your contact info and so on. All these informations will be listed in Car Sharing section of our web.

Accommodation
Every participant has to book the accommodation. Organisers will help only in some special situations, when their help will be needed. There will be enough place for tents in the campsite. All needed information you will find in Accommodation section of this web. We recommend to do the booking as soon as possible, because the beds are usualy reserved very soon.

Updating your info
If you need to update your register form later, it is pretty easy by Login button at the end of the menu. The register form will open again and your info can be changed. If anything is not working, please contact the organisers.

Organisers info
In case you will need some help. Please use the e-mail Josef.Housa@seznam.cz and use a word “Meeting” as a subject in case you need any help.