Steppe by Steppe – a journey on four wheels
Are you interested what this vehicle means? It´s name is Quike and it is machine which is supposed to start in April a long long journey in Central Asia. The rider will be australian couple Roger and Megan. They plan to cross 7 countries during their 12.000 km long expedition which will take about 12 months.
Especialy Roger is experienced adventurer. He crossed the Greenland Icecap unsupported as the youngest person ever in 2007. The Quike is a bike (???) specialy designed and build only for this expedition. They expect to spend long time in areas with low civilization so the bike is able to carry loads up to 200 kg. It has four big wheels to be able to cross terrains which are not suitable for ordinary bikes or cars. The machine was built in cooperation with Paul Sims from Greenspeed and right now it is equiped by two Rohloff hubs, FOX suspensioned forks and hydraulic brakes.
Roger and Megane has updated their web page which looks very very nice and which has a lot of information about the project with many interesting pictures from their testing. Let´s visit www.steppebysteppe.com.au
No commentsGreenspeed new velomobile – new web
Greenspeed european branch has prepared very nice new web sites which you can find on www.greenspeed-europe.com. There are all the trikes available in Europe and also some beautiful pictures in “news”. As a last post there has been added a message about the new Greenspeed Glyde velomobile with a little bit more informations than which were provided by BROL.
K24 – the 24 hour race
K24 is pretty known race of single riders in the Czech Republic. Not many racers really races against each others or to win. It is mainly races where the main rival is the racer himself. It is a race where every and each rider has an idea or/and dream of how many kilometers he/she would like to manage. This year the start was on Friday (June 20th) in Ujezd u Brna at 4 p.m. The finish was after complete 24 hours.
There were also several recumbent riders as each year. We could see some homebuild recumbents, two Greenspeed trikes, the prototype of AZUB Highracer and some other models from AZUB, which is not surprise, because AZUB is a Czech company.
There were two fastest recumbents. One was riden by Jiri Hebeda and the other one by Jan-Friedrich Köhle. They both manage 397,6 km.
