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We received an invitation to Slovene recumbent meeting which will be organised in September from Peter. You can read it here under. At least from videos and pictures it seems to be a very nice meeting with very friendly atmospehere. Recommended for visit.

Hello recumbent cyclists!

Time is running and soon we will have September again. This year we will already have a 6th recumbent meeting in Slovenia. Again in Terme3000 as it is the best choice for whole families, even if only daddy will cycle.

I have attached an invitation letter in PDF and you can also find information about the event on my website: http://www.udobnoposvetu.si/srecanje-lezecih including a short video from last year.

I wish you lots of nice recumbent kilometers during the summer months and hope to see you in September!

Best regards from Slovenia,
Peter Osterveršnik

Hello All!

This year I am organising a 5th recumbent meeting in Slovenia that will be held in Moravske Toplice. It will be different than all the meetings before as we will be stationary on one location for three days. And the location is Terme 3000 in Moravske Toplice – http://www.sava-hotels-resorts.com/si/destinacije/moravske/

Meeting date: 15.9.-18.9.2011

Whole families are invited as there are lots of swimming pools and slides to play around all day – for those who will not cycle, that is

Accomodation possibilities:

tent in a camp: 14,40€/person per day, all day swimming included, without sauna (+6€ for breakfast and +7,50€ for dinner)

bungalows / cottages 3*: 30€/person in a double bed bungalow including selfs ervice breakfast and dinner, includes all day swimming

hotel Termal 4*: 44€/person in a double bed room, includes breakfast and supper with unlimited swimming pools usage and sauna world!

Kids up to 6years stay free of charge, up to 12 years 50% discount, and up to 15 years 30% discount.

I will prepair three long daily tours for three geographical areas: Goričko, Prlekija, Prekmurje and one night cycling tour for fun I am counting on better weather than last year, but just in case we have swimming pools inside and outside to get really wet in case of bad weather More information follows, this is just to inform you that something interesting is beeing planned for September 2011 in Slovenia! So reserve the third weekend of September for family vacation in Slovenia!

Hope to see you here!

Best regards,
Peter Osterversnik
http://www.udobnoposvetu.si

Especially on recumbents our knees are very exposed to excessive load
as we have a solid support behind our back. I am sure everyone has at
some point experienced knee pain after more intensive cycling. Even
diamond frame cyclists experience that and their pressure on knees is
much lower. There is a very simple solution available and it is called
eHub. And no, it is not a motor and it has no electronics inside.

a-Hub in black (available also in beautiful red and silver)

It was developed for diamond frame bikes and it even has UCI
certificate, which means it is allowed on international races. The
main purpose of this special hub is however not related to knee
strain. It was developed for overcoming the pedals’ backlash,
consequently allowing cyclists a better output and increased overall
performance by 7-10%. It seams this really works, as more and more
famous cyclists around the world are already using eHub. Considering
the fact that it is heavier than standard rear hub, noone in the DF
world would use it without gaining something that can be realised and
of course, measured.

For me this 10% better performance is not so important. It is true I
cycle with a Nazca Fuego which is built for speed, but at the same
time it is made for comfort and safety on the road. And comfort was
deffinatelly not sacrefised for speed and that’s what I like about it.
It is fast and comfortable. I already cycled 800km with the eHub in my
Fuego rear wheel and I experienced first hand how climbing feels like
when you have eHub inside. When you first push on the pedal you will
feel they are softer. I started with eHub 5 and it is perfect for
“normal” terrain for not so strong riders. It actually propells you up
small hills and you will have a feeling you just flied over it. You
will have to find the right combination of gears and cadence to feel
that perfect effect. That is why they have different numbers which are
suited to different strength of the cyclist and the way they climb
hills. At the moment this scale from 1 – 6 is designed for DF bikes
and for recumbent cyclists only 5 and 6 are suitable, as our pressure
on pedals is so much higher compared to DF world. They have decided to
develop a recumbent version though and considering the just mentioned
fact about high forces present here, this is certainly a very welcome
addition to the recumbent cycling industry.

Cycling with eHub in the rear wheel makes the ride smoother. Peak
pressure on the pedals gets “eaten up” by the spring and it is
released later, when the pressure in “dead area” is the weakest.
Spring stores that excessive energy and releases it later when it is
needed to sustain fluid forward motion. There have been many solutions
on how to overcome this pedalling problem. From eliptical chainrings
to special pedal arms, but many of them have a steep learning curve
and they require symmetrical movement and only work at certain angles.
Spring does not care how much pressure you have in your left or right
foot and where is your dead end, it simply stores energy when pressure
is very high and releases it when it is lowest. Not depending on left
or right leg exact position. Besides removing those peak stress points
for your knees and muscles, it also reduces side forces on the frame.
Frames in recumbent world are long and are thus prone to bending as we
have no triangles to keep them rigid. Even DF cyclists have noticed
the lack of resonance in the frame that without eHub happens
sometimes. With every possible gram of weight reduced, this can get
problematic. So we have more than just one positive side effect.

Facts they advertise:

- better output of the thrust (by 7-10%)
- overcome pedal’s backlash
- lower muscle and knee strain
- high quality material

And they have a lot of references on their website to back this up.
But as I said. For me it is the comfort that counts and having less
knee strain and climbing more fluently certainly increase comfort.
Being a little faster is just a side effect as Fuego is already a very
fast bicycle .

www.ehub.si

Article by Peter from www.udobnoposvetu.si

The last set of recumbent dealers is here. We will add one more only in case you send us some recommendations. This time we show you shops from eastern Europe, Asia and Australia.

SLOVENIA – It is the most developed country among so called “new EU countries” and it is pretty small. So you cannot be surprised that only one recumbent dealer is there. Peter Ostervesnik runs his  Udobnoposvetu (it means something like: “comfortably around the world”) and in his offer you can find wide range of recumbents and trikes from european producers. He has started with AZUB recumbents about three years ago and he also ride his AZUB HardCore together with Nazca Fuego. His web page is nice to see even if you do not understand.

Recumbent dealer in Slovenia

HUNGARY – Near to hungarian capital Budapest in village called Budakalasz you can find the best recumbent shop east from Germany with plenty of high end US and EU recumbents together with their cheaper versions. The shop was founded about three years ago too and has quite a lot of interesting projects as a promotion. If you go around, try to visit them or look at  A.M. Bringa

Recumbent dealer in Hungary

Let´s go far more eastern to south Asia and than continue south. We cannot provide much comments about following shops but if you wonder how look web pages of asian and australian web pages let´s continue reading and clicking.

SOUTH KOREA – Recumbent Korea -  This web page can look a little bit strange (mostly because of the language) but it seems that there are quite some informations and also some blogs around. We wonder how much bikes they sell per year…

Recumbent dealer in South Korea

JAPAN – Cycletech is quite known shop which has been already working for many years. They are mainly interested in folding bikes but also quite some recumbents are in their offer. It is pretty strange that no real recumbent producer is there so most of the bikes have to be imported from eithr US or Europe.

Recumbent dealer in Japan

Recumbent dealer in Australia

AUSTRALIA – Tri Sled is mainly known as a producer of very fast velomobiles, but they have also some recumbents improted from Europe in their offer.

NEW ZEALAND – Greenbike – really too far from us to comment and not many info on their web :-]

Recumbent dealer in New Zealand

Marija Kozin is a brave slovenian girl. One of those few who cycle alone for long journeys. Marija cycled from Slovenia to Beijing by upright bike. More than 17.000 km almost alone. There she has decided to try recumbent and thanks to partnership with AZUB she cycled back from Beijing to Slovenia by recumbent bike. Next 15.000 km.

On the way home she had couple of troubles with knee and also with war in Georgia, but finaly she is at home.

Read more about her on www.marijakozin.com

We hope to do an interview with Marija and publish it here soon.