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CycleVision/Recumbent World Champs upcoming!Streets in Tilburg, Netherlands to be closed for recumbent races and CycleVision in early July - plus the event will see the launch of a new four-wheeler, four-seater recumbent... Press release in from Jack Dekker: Press Release Recumbent World Championships and Cycle Vision Tilburg The Recumbent World Championships will be held in Tilburg, NL from Friday July 3 through Sunday July 5. The World Championships will be a part of the international recumbent bike show Cycle Vision, which will take place on Saturday July 4 and Sunday July 5 in and around the Reeshof Sport Hall. The World Championships for recumbents rotates among different countries. The Netherlands come up once every 14 years in the rotation. The Recumbent World Championships will be one of the events in Tilburg’s Bicentennial celebration. Both the World Championships and the Cycle Vision bike show are free and open to the public. During the first weekend in July, Tilburg offers its anniversary hospitality to hundreds of recumbent riders from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, England, Denmark, Austria and the United States. Streets in the city will be closed off for the World Championship races. Because these spectacular races will be ridden on the public streets, large crowds of spectators are expected. In addition to the Recumbent World Championships, international and especially Dutch recumbent manufacturers will be showing their latest novelties at the big Cycle Vision bike show in and around the Reeshof. An extensive series of lectures is also scheduled. During the show, the new Dutch four-person Quattrocycle will be introduced [see below -Ed]. New brands and manufacturers exhibiting this year include Zockra carbon recumbents, M-gineering with SON dynamos, Fiet-a-parts with, among other offerings, Brompton folding bikes, and HP Velotechnik, with recumbents. All of the large, established brands will be showing their new models. Besides the 'ordinary' recumbents, the public can also make the acquaintance of other unusual human-powered vehicles, such as trikes, rowing bikes, back-to-back tandems, handbikes, and velomobiles. Most of the models of recumbents are available for test rides on the test tracks. Those who have tried them say that recumbents are comfortable, not difficult, and that almost everyone can ride one with just a few minutes of practice. Recumbents are valued for their speed, as well as the fact that the rider, even over long distances, never develops saddle-pain. During this big recumbent event, smaller visitors can participate in special children’s races, in activities in the children’s corner, and try out bikes on a special kids’ test track. Entry and parking during Cycle Vision are free. More information and a complete program for Cycle Vision can be found at www.cyclevision.nl The event is made possible in cooperation with Tilburg 2009 and Schwalbe Bicycle Tyres. *********************** A quick search found some details of the Quattrocycle: it's an impressive recumbent quad aimed primarily, it seems, at the rental market: It would be impressive to see in the metal - so get along to CycleVision to see it! Posted on 8 June 2009 Your comments ...
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