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Issue 24 preview


It's out now, and contains a bumper crop of folder reviews, reader reports and much more! Read on for a look at the cover and contents...

The cover was a lucky shot - I don't think I saw the chap overtaking until after I clicked the shutter:

24 cover

CONTENTS

4 News
Bike shed winners, Burrows' latest, recumbents from Pakistan, new velomobiles, events listings and more…

10 Cycle caravanning
A dream comes true in a mobile home cycle trailer at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert...

13 Cycle 2006
All the most interesting products and ideas on show at the London exhibition…

16 Five ways to fold
A portable cycling special as we test five folding or travel bikes, with the help of guest reviewer Bryan Ball from 'BentriderOnline:
- 18 Birdy Touring
- 20 Dahon Mu XL *See correction below*
- 22 Pacific Reach
- 24 Brompton P6R-X
- 26 Bike Friday New World Tourist

28 Short reviews
The SmarTube hydration system, Burrows testing the Winsome touring tandem pedalboat and a bumper crop of books and magazines reviewed.

32 Reader bikes
Real-life reports from Velo Vision readers:
- 32 RANS Zenetik: is crank-forward the way forward?
- 34 Creating choppers: amazing reader constructions
- 36 Revolutionary cycle? Ultra-adjustable design from South Africa
- 37 AZUB 4: wide range gears on this Czech recumbent
- 38 Touring with the Pino: a Belgian couple tour England's Lake District

42 Letters
A bumper crop of comments, questions and answers

50 Buyer's Guide: hub gears
What they're good for, how they work, how to fit them, and what's available.

55 Advertising
The best specialised advertising around! Please support the companies who support this magazine.


ERRATA
Please note that the retail price of the Dahon Mu XL in the UK is just £749, not £899 as incorrectly stated in the review. That makes it an even more appealing package. Many apologies to Dahon for the error.

Posted on 20 December 2006
 
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Your comments ...


  • From: Arch (@KM) on 6 December 2006
    • Agh! I thought we agreed we were going to say we were overtaking HIM at speed, and that was why he was blurry... ;-)


  • From: Tourist Tony (tc4558@hotmail,com) on 7 December 2006
    • Yay! Go Arch!


  • From: jase (patientjason@lineone.net) on 8 December 2006
    • he's even overtaking you when riding on a slow grass surface.......


  • From: Arch (@KM) on 8 December 2006
    • Well, obviously, I was riding at a moderate/slow speed, so that Peter could keep level, despite riding one handed, not looking where he was going, and being on my bike which is about 2 sizes too small for him...

    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


  • From: Borntoolate (stunned@sight.com) on 10 December 2006
    • Is that something dangerously close to a mountainbike being reviewed in VV? I mean the knobbly black thing behind Arch of course, not the Birdy. Guess I'll have to wait for a Welsh lorry driver brfore I can read about it. (Sorry, York-specific remark there - now you Londoners can see what its like listening to the BBC!).


  • From: Arch (@KM) on 11 December 2006
    • Sorry, Borntoo, that was a completely random bloke on a bike who overtook us while we were shooting pictures. I had no idea he was behind us, and as Pete says, neither did he.

    Sadly, being overtaken by knobbly tired MTBs is not unusual for me, but normally, they're ridden by yoofs with the saddle too low and too much energy for their own good...


  • From: Ralf Grosser (Buzzleichtbier@aol.com) on 18 December 2006
    • Well I hope the Birdy has got the new and improved folding stem.
    R and M had a recall, because these were prone to fail.
    BTW The new sheetmetal Birdy is recumended, to be turned upside down after a ride in the rain.
    The lower part of the framebody fills with water entering the body via the cabelholes.


  • From: Simon Hartley (shartley@fish.co.uk) on 21 December 2006
    • 'overtaken by knobbly tired MTBs'

    It's usually me that's knobbly and tired, not my bike.


  • From: Ben - Kinetics (ben at kinetics-online.co.uk) on 25 December 2006
    • The Stem problem was caught quickly - it only affected my demo Birdy, and all bikes after that came with the new improved stem.


  • From: Ralf Grosser (Buzzstarkbier@aol.com) on 27 December 2006
    • I don^t know about demo birdy, but here in germany the had a recall on all bikes with this configuration.
    Ralf


  • From: K.V.Satyanarayana (satyam_kvschowdary@yahoo.co.in) on 2 March 2007
    • I am looking for a lite weight folting bicycle to be used for train travel daili to my office.Distence from home to station is aproxmateli 1.5Km and station to office is 1.4km.For this I felt "Panasonic Traincle" may be usefull. I couldnot find buying path or address for this. Iam resident of INDIA,AP,HYDERABAD.If any other better prodect you can sujest it will be greatfull to me. My age is 53 years. I want to go for online purchase. Expecting your golden support by mail.

     


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