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Links roundup
Bamboo bicycles, Beijing's SARS bicycle boom, another velomobile review, FlugTag human-powered flight, and the Eco-Trip in Finland...
Thanks to 'Huw' for sending me thse first two links:
A story from the American Bamboo Society about a guy in Denmark who makes really nice bamboo bicycles: http://americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BambooBicycle.html.
'The Missourian' reports that bicycle sales in one Beijing cycle shop have doubled, as commuters avoid buses due to fears of SARS: http://semissourian.com/story.html$rec=108972.
Following the brief report on the Versatile test-ride a few stories back, another velomobike, the German Cab-Bike, is reviewed in more detail by a USA customer on the IHPVA Velomobiles mailing list. Mary Arneson reports after 2000km of riding: http://www.ihpva.org/pipermail/velomobile/2003-August/001042.html.
Warren Beauchamp was part of a team who entered the Red Bull Flugtag in Chicago recently - it's human-power flight, but not as we know it. He posted a link on the IHPVA HPV mailing list to an interesting illustrated writeup at http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/flugtag/flugtag2003.htm.
Finally, an illustrated report is now up from the Eco-Trip in Finland this year: http://hpv-finland.org/ecotrip/sivu1.htm.
Posted on 13 August 2003
Your comments ...| From: Brian Cady ([email protected]) on 15 August 2003 |
| Wow. I just spent four hours following many links from your site and reading articles here. (Boy, I thought I was going to get some writing done this evening - the evening is gone. ;-) ) |
| From: Peter Eland ([email protected]) on 15 August 2003 |
| Hi Brian, sorry to disrupt your evening and thanks for the nice comment :-) |
| From: Steven Brandist (dare you) on 18 August 2003 |
| Come on Pete. Give us some juicy stories to comment on... like the stupid 'use aluminium wisely' Smirnoff ad. You know it makes sense. |
| From: Peter Eland ([email protected]) on 19 August 2003 |
| Well if you insist - I'm in a bit of a "frantically trying to finish Issue 11 despite ten pages of promised articles dropping out at the last moment" mode at the moment but I s'pose a few mins to do the story won't hurt... will be up shortly. |
| From: Steven Brandist (email) on 20 August 2003 |
| Has it really been that long since the last issue? Doesn't Time fly. Of course I rather see Time use a folder and public transport but theres no telling some people. |
| From: Time (time@old father.co.uk) on 20 August 2003 |
| Yeah, but it's really awkward trying to carry a folder and the hourglass and the scythe on the bus. |
| From: Harvey D'Eath ([email protected]) on 20 August 2003 |
WELL REALLY, THERE'S JUST NO HELPING SOME PEOPLE. I'VE RECENTLY ACQUIRED A TRIKE AND I MANAGE FINE (THE HORSE WAS SIMPLY TOO HIGH MAINTENANCE).
MYSELF, WAR, FAMINE AND PESTILENCE HAVE JUST ORDERED A CONFERENCE BIKE ON A SIMILAR BASIS. NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO WITH THE SPARE SEATS THOUGH. |
| From: Fate ([email protected]) on 20 August 2003 |
| Mr Patient, (Tempramentally on good terms with Time I presume), likes to ziptie fluffy Clangers to the spare seats... Apocalyptic beings may be all very well, but I and my sisters all ride Bromptons. |
| From: Marquis d'Egville ([email protected]) on 20 August 2003 |
| Mr d'Eath can reduce his spare seat problem by getting a 'love bike' instead of a 'conference bike' - only 5 seats so the spare one can be reserved for Jason the Hillfinder |
| From: Harvey D'Eath ([email protected]) on 21 August 2003 |
| WE WERE CONSIDERING A ZEM, BUT HAVING TESTED THE ONE AT SPOKESFEST LAST YEAR WE WEREN'T CONVINCED ABOUT ITS LONGEVITY. |
| From: Steven Brandist ([email protected]) on 21 August 2003 |
| I'm glad to see that Terry Pratchet has a good following. (For those who are a little confused, the the Discworld Series of books hes written feature Death quite a lot. Death, the person, that is. Whatever Death says is written in capital letters). |
| From: Mendel Bernbaum ([email protected]) on 26 August 2003 |
| Just don't try using a mate's pad, or his dressing gown. (reference anyone?). |
| From: Seamus (whatever) on 27 August 2003 |
Bear in mind that the Zem at Spokesfest last year was BROKEN!!!!!
It's still a carp bike though. I allways thought Swizzerland was hilly.*
*note comments about alcohol and computers elsewher on this site. |
| From: Innocent Bystander (likeavirgin@theveryfirsttime) on 04 September 2003 |
| This is a bit late but here goes anyway. 8-seater Conference bike for Mr. De'ath and the other three riders of the apocalypse? Well that's easy - the next three seats for the Fates of Ancient Greek mythology (Clothos, Lachesis and Atropos), which leaves one seat for....? That'll be Richard Branson then, I reckon. |
| From: Time ([email protected]) on 05 September 2003 |
| Or, forget giving those girls a lift. One seat for each horseman, and one for each horse! You could keep the hay in the central basket. |
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