Living with a velomobile
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Riggsbie » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:41 pm
Wasn't too bad......
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Roinik » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:24 pm
My daughter wants one too. She's 5 and knows what a velomobile is. It's encouraging when the boy over the road goes riding with us and we see someone rolling around Victoria Park racecourse. He asks "What's that?" and she replies "That's a velomobile!" "A what?" is the reply in quick retort. "A velomobile! Don't you know anything?"Riggsbie wrote:I love the way kids are not 'conditioned' into thinking what a cycle should look like in the way adults are....
Ahh, from the mouth of babes.
BTW, Anyone doing the TDU next year?
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby TrikeTragic » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:35 am
Hi Riggsbie:Riggsbie wrote:Oh yes.....I
It was a good experience !
Saw you streaming out of Sorrento around 11.45 0r so, thanks for the wave. I was on the yellow 20-26 tadpole, just got going after helping a young lady replace a punctured tube...
A couple of Trisled velos seen quite a bit earlier - I think they do the 100 km from Sorrento.
Great ride, apart from the sandblasting along Beaconsfield Parade!
Cheers
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Riggsbie » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:24 am
It was good to see a few trikes out there, I saw a few Greenspeeds later on struggling into the wind at the end......I never saw the Rotovelo's, it would have been good to ride in a squadron of Velomobiles.......
I also saw a few Barchetta's too !!
I forgot about the sandblasting, it was quite intense....I was focused on getting out of the wind as quickly as possible and was motoring through those bits.....
@Roinik - sounds like you have a well educated daughter !!
The kids are the future !!
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Roinik » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:38 pm
LMAO
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Riggsbie » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:58 pm
The Mango provokes quite interesting comments from the most unlikely car drivers/passengers......"fully sic mate !"
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby smoran » Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:38 pm
Handy if you want to get custom decals on your Mango I think
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Rhubarb » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:06 pm
How the hell did you find this ? Just (cyber)passing through the area ????smoran wrote:Just noticed that the Sinner factory in Groningen is right next door to a 'Sign-A-Rama'. https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=sinne ... 03,,2,1.79" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Handy if you want to get custom decals on your Mango I think
Just order one and be done with it will ya
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby smoran » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:44 pm
Then there would be two of them in the western suburbs! The big problem is I dont have approval from the CFO at home yet ...Rhubarb wrote:Just order one and be done with it will ya
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby il padrone » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:13 am
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Rhubarb » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:23 pm
I assume his parents funded it but I don't actually know that. His is a full carbon fibre Mango too. That would be a lot of paper deliveries ....
The global velo market is expanding at a rapid rate albeit off a very small base. Annual sales of the Quest have doubled over the last 2 or 3 years despite the entrance of several new high profile models (Evo K, Milan SL etc). Sinner had to ramp up their production capability of the mango a year or 2 ago as well. Trisled are getting some good Kudos at the moment following their world velo speed record achievement and are in the process of developing a new Rotovelo with suspension. Maybe one day a company like Giant will mass produce decent quality velos at only a small premium to a similarly spec'ed road bike. Who knows perhaps its always going to be a niche market but it does seem to growing. If you are reading this now that is proof of the interest in velos moving more mainstream. I know I get a lot of overwhelmingly positive feedback everywhere I go - hell even bogans love em
Anyway, I'm very happy with mine and don't regret the price i had to pay. I passed many bikes costing even more on the Brisbane to Gold Coast ride
PS - On the bentrideronline.com site, they have a poll for the average age of velo owners. 67% of owners are over 50 !!! Trey is definitely an outlier.
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby John Lewis » Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:50 pm
Wonder how he sat the kids for the 3 up? Have to be careful not to crack the glass.
Lucky lad and all carbon too.
Only a couple of very brief shots but other than David's Quest there was another velo that appeared to be made of coreflute.
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby John Lewis » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:29 pm
Discusses E Velos.
John
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Rhubarb » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:00 pm
I met Nitramluap early and rode to the Nundah Crit track where we were meeting the others. Nitramluap led me via a new path past the Kangaroo Point cliffs, over the story bridge, through New Farm and onto the crit track. A nice ride and great to explore new paths and routes through the city.
We then met the other 'bent' riders and Burnt led us again on a new path out to Redcliffe where we had breakfast. This time I was following Burnt with a bit of tailwind at speeds in the high 40s, low 50s for an extended period.
Then on the return trip home, Nitramluap was in a bit of a hurry to get home, and I was a bit too, so we headed off at full pace. Nitramluap was riding like his wife was in labour!!!! I was really struggling to keep up but every time he started to get a little ahead he would have to slow for traffic and I'd catch back up. A testing ride for me but I managed to set 20 new PBs on strava segments along the way
I got a panic call from my wife too which was hilarious. I installed a location tracker on her phone about a week ago so she can locate me when riding or coming home etc. turns out she tried it today for the first time, just as I was passing the hospital. She assumed I had been taken there by ambulance
So a brilliant ride on a brilliant day in a brilliant machine. 120km all up for me. All part of "Living with a Velomobile" folks ....
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby John Lewis » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:23 pm
Wish i could have been there.
Was the tracker program Latitude?
We were playing with a Spot Tracker a few days back that a friend has bought for when they go off on tour.
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Rhubarb » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:12 pm
It was just the iPhone app "Find Friends"John Lewis wrote:Was the tracker program Latitude?
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby burnt » Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:30 pm
It was a great morning, the velos are just great fun, all the more so on mass! Its a pity you can't be over here for a few group rides John!
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby John Lewis » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:32 pm
Sounds similar to Google Latitude I have on my Android phone.Rhubarb wrote:It was just the iPhone app "Find Friends"John Lewis wrote:Was the tracker program Latitude?
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby John Lewis » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:33 pm
Be there just as soon as I can get this molecular matter transmitter working.burnt wrote:Should be some good video footage from Nitramluap who literally got in my face at times with the GoPro!! Looking forward to seeing this non-standard offering.
It was a great morning, the velos are just great fun, all the more so on mass! Its a pity you can't be over here for a few group rides John!
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby DentedHead » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:11 am
So... It'll only transport matter?Be there just as soon as I can get this molecular matter transmitter working.
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby jet-ski » Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:41 pm
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Re: Living with a velomobile
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Riggsbie » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:23 am
Be prepared for a long wait so don't get upset if it does not arrive on time !
What have to ordered ? What spec ?
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Re: Living with a velomobile
Postby Bartek » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:41 pm
All will be revealed in timeRiggsbie wrote:What have to ordered ? What spec ?
Why should I be the only one waiting!
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Re: Living with a velomobile
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