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This is a beautiful picture of M5 lowracer prepared for breaking a world one hour record. It is already some time since Aurélien Bonneteau broke it by 50,529 km on 15th May 2009 but we have found this picture right today and we think that it is really nice.

Just to mention that Aurélien trained only 5 months on recumbent. He was road race cyclist before. Real hero.

Let´s visit his page on aurelienbonneteau.free.fr (only in French)

Where you can continue:
- Vaniczka streamliner
- New Mike Burrows design
- Streamliner evolution

I think that you have already red about this unbelivable weekend in US. During the Ford Human Powered Challenge couple of new world records has been set up. For us, two are the most important and visible. Man and woman one hour record.

Sam Whittingham (Canada) did 90,724 km

Barbara Buatois (France) 82.235 km

You can read more on Sam web page www.timetogetnaked.com or on official page of the race on www.recumbents.com

AZUB has alredy had a new web presentation on SPEZI with the domain www.azub.eu but they also added a blog which refers about bikes of their customers. Even in such a short time you can find many nice bikes there and also some stories. There was also a similar blog on Challenge web page but it is already not there and the blog itself seems to be dead.

Where you can continue:
- Recumbent dealers around the world and their web pages 1.
- Recumbent dealers around the world and their web pages 2.
- Recumbent dealers around the world and their web pages 3.

In the post about the K24 race in the Czech Republic you could read about a home made streamliner built by Nink. In the following gallery you can see couple of pictures of this unique and nice bike. Couple of points are really interesting. The front part shape is made from plastic children bath. The bike is equiped with side light as same as extremely strong front and rear LED lights. The sight light you can see next to the mirror and its controllers are mounted on the bars. The bike also has a “pee system”, because it is not easy to get on and get off and during such race you have to save as much energy as possible. The little tube going outside the shell just above the rear wheel is part of this system as same as the black bowl inside the bike.

The builder of this bike and many other is an aviation engineer so he has close relationship with aerodynamics and speed. His next project should be a fully faired carbon fibre recumbent.

Where you can continue:
- 24 hours race in the Czech Republic
- Recumbent trike fairing

If you write about recumbents, if you have your own blog or so, please help us with good thing. Please read following article about Flevo Racer for sale and post a note about it on your blog. We would really like to help this family sell such a nice bike.

Thanks very much.

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