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There was a race of four wheel pedal vehicles in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic in the middle of July 2011. Such race is the only one in the Czech Republic and is organised just once a year, but there are more of them mainly in France. Also most of the racers came from France. You can see that not only speed is important but also a look of the vehicle. We do not have more info so if you know something more, just post a comment.

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.

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.

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.

Students at Delft Technical University have developed a recumbent bicycle with which they hope to break the current bike speed record. The bicycle has an oval, aerodynamic chassis to reduce air resistance. The record attempt will take place in the desert in the US state of Nevada in September.

The current world record is held by Canadian Sam Whittingham, who reached speeds of 133 km per hour in 2009 in his Varna Tempest.

The students hope the aerodynamic chassis will help them break the record. The chassis has been remoulded 30 times to reduce air resistance by 20 to 30 percent. The actual bike is larger than the record holder’s bicycle so that it can accomodate a larger and stronger cyclist.

The bike is being tested on a disused runway in Soesterberg today. It will be raced in Germany at the end of July.

source: www.rnw.nl

Kápolnás Gergely is a young hungarian designer who introduced this project not long time ago. It is pretty futuristic and it looks like it has a monocoque carbon frame and the pedaling is directly combined with driving the front wheel. All at all it looks pretty nice. We look forward to more designs like that which make the recumbent world much nicer.