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Issue 17 is out!
UPDATE 12 March: all subs copies now posted.
Here's the cover:
All 68 pages are full colour this time (and it'll stay that way). Thanks to great support from readers and advertisers which has made this possible. Here's an idea what's inside:
CONTENTS
4 News
New folding bikes, ice biking, events listings and more
8 Hauling in the Himalayas
Cass Gilbert tests trailers against a spectacular backdrop
12 The small big man
Saluting a Russian pioneer of human power and sustainable transport
14 One night in Hong Kong
Pedalling the night away at the HK 24-hour pedalcar contest
16 Inventions roundup
A wheelchair-steered tandem, pedal touring boat, modular bike, designer townie, pedal-while-you-work circulation enhancer and more...
22 Rolling in the real world
Mike Burrows tests 20" tyres and explains how you can make your own measurements
25 Personal Bikes invade Leuven
How one bike is taking over the town
26 Tagun tested
Hase Bikes' new two-wheeler revives the long-wheelbase layout...
29 Czeching it out
Now they're in the EU recumbent makers AZUB hope to impress with their latest model...
32 Vive la differential
Scooterbike's Urban trike ridden forwards, backwards and around corners.
35 Short reviews
An amazingly cheap and light one-wheel trailer from Poland, Scottoiler, electric bike, LED dynamo lights and more reviewed...
38 On a thin ICE
The budget ICE Q Narrow Track trike reviewed by a reader
40 Catrike cruising
Riding the Catrike Road recumbent trike - one reader's experience
42 Letters
Short cranks, Moulton conversions, Cuba - all this and more in your letters and emails
48 Buyer's Guide: Recumbent Trikes
New and updated - we return to the subject of low-down three-wheelers.
55 Subscribe to Velo Vision, order calendars and back issues
56 Adverts
The best, most interesting advertising around. Please support the companies who support this magazine.
Posted on 12 March 2005
Your comments ...| From: Seamus (dogpoo) on 2 August 2006 |
I want THAT recumbent.
I'll swap you my Mistral for it. |
| From: David Gardiner (vantagecreative@blueyonder etc) on 2 August 2006 |
| That Hase Tagun looks very like the bike that Max built over two years ago and rides round Edinburgh. I told him he should have gone into production or sent a photo to VV! Maybe he sent it to Hase instead.It's very like his design, that's for sure. His version folds at back and has Rohloff hub and disc brake (maybe brakes). Last time I saw him he was following our 20/20 Bernds tandem up the Mound hill using the bike lane to pass a long line of traffic. A veritable fest of 20/20 yellow bikes... people just had to look away in complete disinterest (just like in the car ads)! |
| From: Arch (@Km) on 2 August 2006 |
...and what a handsome cover model this time!
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| From: Crispin (crispinbennett@tinyworld.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
Oh no.
Mismatched socks. That can't be cool.
Can it? ;-) |
| From: Steven Brandist (s...) on 2 August 2006 |
| ...or having a gayily coloured flag coming out your neck at 45 degrees. |
| From: beeline (hmmm) on 2 August 2006 |
| "Mismatched socks" - certainly not cool but hints at the fee our models receive. |
| From: Norti Rascal (@hmp.com) on 2 August 2006 |
Philistines. Mr Riley is actually a style guru years ahead of his time. You'll all be wearing different socks just as soon as Mr Beckham realises he's behind the times.
Then you'll all be trying to buy them on Ebay. |
| From: Arch (@KM) on 2 August 2006 |
| Or deal direct. I have a small cache of Mr Riley's odd socks currently in storage on the clothes horse in my bathroom. What am I bid? Anyone start the bidding at £100? £90...? |
| From: Antony (@ shameless-plug.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
Hong Kong eh?
Probably worth subscribing just for that...
;-) |
| From: Arch (@KM) on 2 August 2006 |
"Mike Burrows tests 20" tyres and explains how you can make your own measurements"
Well, I use a ruler or a tape, depending on what I'm measuring. Has Mike Burrows become a primary school maths teacher?
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| From: steve green (xxxxxxxxx) on 2 August 2006 |
| Has he got another pair of those socks? |
| From: steve green (xxxxxxxxx) on 2 August 2006 |
| Has he got another pair of those socks? |
| From: David (vantagecreative@blueyonder.etc) on 2 August 2006 |
| Just shows the importance of foot / legwear for 'feet first cyclists'. Hase's new bike has been completely eclipsed by a sock mismatch... |
| From: beeline (brrrrrrrr) on 2 August 2006 |
| Not to mention the fact that the magazine has gone full colour. I can see the next marketing ploy - a pair of cover mounted socks. |
| From: Daniel (d@d) on 2 August 2006 |
Or perhaps this is replacement to the inside back cover spot the difference competition?
Adam Hart-Davies - he of TV fame has been quoted as saying that life is too short to wear matching socks.. |
| From: Tony Smith (@lunch) on 2 August 2006 |
| With much of the mag being in black and white 'til now I'm left wondering how often the sock thing has gone unnoticed. |
| From: Roger the Hilldodger (@cyclemagic) on 2 August 2006 |
| Having seen the error of my ways, I too have begun to wear different socks. However, I do it more subtly because all of my socks are black. |
| From: Steven Brandist (...) on 2 August 2006 |
| But isn't amazing how many shades of black there are? |
| From: jes (@another plug) on 2 August 2006 |
Yes, that Hong Kong article looks like it'll be really worth reading.
Socks or no socks... |
| From: Bob macQueen (bobmacqueen@ntlworld.com) on 2 August 2006 |
My ten year old has worn odd socks since he was five. He says that it is silly to match them as we don't match other clothes!
Also being dyslexic he can tell right from left - or at least you can tell him to turn yellow sock or green sock way!
Bob |
| From: jes@ (pedalcars.info) on 2 August 2006 |
When I was a kid, there was a short lived fashion for luminous socks. They came in pink, green, yellow and blue but the trend was that you wore different ones on different feet.
But then, I grew up in the 1980's where style didn't exist.
sorry.
Now, back to that Hong Kong article. |
| From: Yo Rollenbeck (info@hasebikes.com) on 2 August 2006 |
i wear odd socks most of the time, and my boss does so too. Maybe that is the reason why the Tagun test was totally eclipsed in the socks issue...
If even the manufacturers wear odd socks...
maybe the bike forces you, who knows?
cheerio
yo |
| From: andy scaife (sock-it-to-em@last) on 2 August 2006 |
My 13 year old daughter informs me that odd socks are very much the thing for the young punk-goth set these days. She currently sports one silver/black hooped and one rainbow hooped. There are worn over pink fishnets however, with tartan kilt and neon-pink Vans skate shoes. the long black velvet cloak is optional.
Tom, Jess says you can buy the fishnets at Classix. |
| From: andy scaife (sock-it-to-em@last) on 2 August 2006 |
My 13 year old daughter informs me that odd socks are very much the thing for the young punk-goth set these days. She currently sports one silver/black hooped and one rainbow hooped. There are worn over pink fishnets however, with tartan kilt and neon-pink Vans skate shoes. the long black velvet cloak is optional.
Tom, Jess says you can buy the fishnets at Classix. |
| From: Oliver (recumbents@aol.com) on 2 August 2006 |
Odd sock wearing is a sign of superior intellect.
Evry fule gno that!
Personally, I care more about how warm they are than whether they are odd or not. Sorry, but thats just how shallow I am! |
| From: Peter Eland (peter@velovision.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
All copies for subscribers are now in the post - also extra copies for contributors, advertisers and misc others. Just a few packages for overseas distributors left to send, and these will go out on Monday.
Mags should arrive with subscribers early next week in the UK, and a few days after that overseas...
Cheers!
Peter |
| From: jes (@pedalcars are fun) on 2 August 2006 |
Stunning photography in this issue I thought.
:-)
J |
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| From: Jan-Inge (webmaster@liggister.org) on 2 August 2006 |
| Sorry sorry can someone take my earlier comments away? I think I got a virus in my computer. I also got my Velovision today. |
| From: Peter Eland (peter@velovision.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Think I'll leave them for now - I remember last time I tried deleting comments it messed up the display order... thanks Jeremy. Some great pics from contributors this issue, plus I'm slowly getting to grips with a new camera too :-) |
| From: Peter (peter.banyard@speed-mail.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Anybody thought about correcting the contents list? In my copy, page 42 has no readers' letters, but a review of an electric folder. Letters start on page 44. |
| From: David (laid-back@blueyonder.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
But did you like the mag? I always dive in and read an article first then go back.
BTW There's a typo on Greenspeed ad - 'test ride one Toady' (home and way character?) instead of 'test ride one today'. Happy to correct any typos on the Laid Back ad for next issue... Or even replace the model! |
| From: David (laid-back@blueyonder.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Meant to say 'Home and away' |
| From: David (laid-back@blueyonder.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Meant to say 'Home and away' |
| From: Arch (@home) on 2 August 2006 |
And anyway, Toady is in Neighbours. I don't know, I don't see it for months and when I do, Paul Robinson is back and Lassiters has burnt down!
Great mag BTW! |
| From: Roy Hudson (hudson@dircon.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Looking at Mary Arneson's picture of the terrier in her Cab-Bike on the frozen lake I expect the RSPCA's next campaign to be "Dogs Die in Cold Velomobiles". |
| From: Arch (@KM) on 2 August 2006 |
| Pity it wasn't a baby wolf. Then it would be a Cub-bike... |
| From: Klaus Mueller (klaus.m.nospam@gmx.de) on 2 August 2006 |
Steve Hall praises the DLumotec LED front lamp at page 35. It seems he hasn't done a real side-by-side comparison, because even the manufacturer admits that the DLumotec is less bright compared with a good halogen headlamp at medium and higher speed.
A good comparison of recent halogen and LED headlamps for hub dynamos can be found at
http://www.paul-lange.de/paullange/aRS.98-107Beleuchtung.pdf
See page 102 for pictures of the light distribution and the diagram at page 103 which shows brightness over speed for the combination DLumotec/DToplight or E6-Halogen front lamp/DToplight. Both powerde by a SON28 hub dynamo.
Klaus |
| From: steve hall (sph@) on 2 August 2006 |
re the DLumotec Topal Plus test - I did test the light alongside another bike ridden by my son, and we felt that at the low to medium speeds we were doing in a hilly built-up area the LED light was brighter. His upright bike had a Nordlicht 2000, I was using a B&M S6 on my recumbent, so it wasn't a scientific test. However I agree that at higher speeds the conventional bulb is brighter - we were using a 3watt bulb and it seems less bright than a 2.4watt bulb at low to medium speed. Personally I prefer the blue-white 'cold' light from an LED but many people prefer the 'warm' yellow light from a bulb.
cheers
steve |
| From: Ian (ian.dowson@bike-express.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| I'm just happy we are advertising in the mag! Yey! Shameless plug for business! |
| From: GoodGad (geoff@dabbs4600.fslife.co.uk) on 2 August 2006 |
| Looks nice and now I know what to do with all the socks left over after the washing machine swallowed their mate. Last time I wore odds socks it had been a 'really good' night before, or so I am informed. |
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