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Have any been seen?
Is there such a thing as Velos in Sydney?

Or am I possibly going to be the first?

Hellooo.... is anyone there?? LOL

Just an echo rbenteer...
You may be the initiator....wooo.
Look out sydney. What will you be piloting?

william.

william wrote:Just an echo rbenteer...
You may be the initiator....wooo.
Look out sydney. What will you be piloting?

william.

It won't be long and these velos will be hitting critical mass and breeding like rabbits.

So, recumbenteer, Like william said., What's it going to be?

Are you going to tell us or keep us guessing?
Congrats on joining the dark side.

John

Fingers crosed,...

n if the Gods smile....

I'm on the good side of the Minister of Finance.... +1


A Rotovelo....... gotta Buy Australian!!
It seems this may be at the 'entry level', judging by most of the posts on velomobiles ...i.e not 'euro flash' lol

Not a lot of in-depth owner reviews either when 'net trawling' but , hey....it's my choice of steed



although a lotto win would add a "Euro" model Velo to my stable

Nice one !


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recumbenteer wrote:

A Rotovelo....... gotta Buy Australian!!

http://www.ozhpv.org.au/forsale/forsale.html

Rhubarb wrote:

recumbenteer wrote:

A Rotovelo....... gotta Buy Australian!!

http://www.ozhpv.org.au/forsale/forsale.html

Cool.... that's it!!

recumbenteer wrote:

Rhubarb wrote:

recumbenteer wrote:

A Rotovelo....... gotta Buy Australian!!

http://www.ozhpv.org.au/forsale/forsale.html

Cool.... that's it!!

Poiter - you owe me a beer for the referral

http://s965.photobucket.com/albums/ae13 ... tride2.jpg

Look-out Sydney.... comin' thru

10k jaunt Friday arvo in the RV to test the feelers....mmmm not bad needs a bit of fine tuning...


60k jaunt Sunday morning, better, maybe a bit more tweaking needed, but getting there.
Certainly got 75km/h out of it.... gravity assisted

COOL!!

Awesomeness !

Velos are the future.....


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... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

recumbenteer wrote:... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

Yes mine was the first in my neck of the woods too. Baalzamon might yet make it two.

Glad to see you took the plunge with the Rotovelo. Hope you have lots of fun.

John

recumbenteer wrote:... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

The upside of that is that you won't meet the hundreds of random strangers who call you Paul.

The downside is the lack of communal spirit, velo club rides, spare parts stock, maintenance advice etc.

In Brisbane, BurnT and I are very lucky to have been able to leverage Nitramluap's experience in owning a mango velo for nearly 2 years.

+1 to what Rhubarb says.

It's great to have other velos to ride with, otherwise it can be lonely! A velo ride with average fitness df riders barely gets the heart pumping. At the other end of the spectrum is trying to keep up with Nitramluap-on cardiac alert most of the time!!

Seriously, it has been great to have the advice, experience and generosity of time of Brisbane's velo pioneer.

Rhubarb wrote:

recumbenteer wrote:... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

The upside of that is that you won't meet the hundreds of random strangers who call you Paul.

The downside is the lack of communal spirit, velo club rides, spare parts stock, maintenance advice etc.

In Brisbane, BurnT and I are very lucky to have been able to leverage Nitramluap's experience in owning a mango velo for nearly 2 years.

.. ..I do get to meet hundreds of random strangers.....who have no idea what a Velo is they all call me "cool"

....communal spirit....gotta get the Sydney 'bent riders together somehow, spare parts are easy enough to get as my RV is Aussie made, and uses common parts, maintenance is easy too.... 20 recent years of cycling has taught me heaps.

....well I hope I don't have to wait for 2 years 'til we get another Velo in Sydney

Nice meeting you on the bikeways of Sydney Mark! Being a Brisbanite, it's my first time seeing a velomobile other than a Mango. I'm impressed with your Rotovelo, certainly has its own charm. Looking forward to hear about the first ever velomobile to tour across Australia story

cherock wrote:Nice meeting you on the bikeways of Sydney Mark! Being a Brisbanite, it's my first time seeing a velomobile other than a Mango. I'm impressed with your Rotovelo, certainly has its own charm. Looking forward to hear about the first ever velomobile to tour across Australia story

Pete Heal sent me PDF some time back about a two velomobile crossing of Aus. They are called trikes in the article but had a full body fairing.
I don't know if the article is on line anywhere.

Norfolk Punch Tour de Nullabor. Perth Canberra in 24 days 5260 km.
I think Wayne Kotzer built the trike part and the lightweight Kevlar bodies were fitted. I can't recall who made them.

John

Supported as well.
Did the coast route via Melbourne.
Kevlar bodies by Billspeed in Canberra.
Very lumpy finish and open bottom.
One complete trike in Central NSW - John Armstrong?
Fairing mould in a shed in Arrarat VIC needing some TLC.

http://users.tpg.com.au/pheal//TrikingAcrossOz.pdf

cherock wrote:Nice meeting you on the bikeways of Sydney Mark! Being a Brisbanite, it's my first time seeing a velomobile other than a Mango. I'm impressed with your Rotovelo, certainly has its own charm. Looking forward to hear about the first ever velomobile to tour across Australia story

Cherock... great to see some 'bents cruising Sydney.... they're a pretty rare sight.

John, Poit... thanks for the link, a bit of extra research never goes astray.

I reckon I will probably be the first fully enclosed Velo to cross the country, UNsupported gotta luv a challenge!!

recumbenteer wrote:... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

In which case it must have been you I said hello to on the duck creek cycle path last Saturday morning

find_bruce wrote:

recumbenteer wrote:... Well according to my research, and putting feelers out there..

My Velo is the first and only one in Sydney....

Ahh, that warm lonely feeling

In which case it must have been you I said hello to on the duck creek cycle path last Saturday morning

Guess so.... lol 2.4m of green is hard to miss

Thanks for filling the gaps and providing the link Poit.

John