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Event-related updatesCycling to CycleVision, staying at the SPEZI, Leicester's Cycling Films Festival 2004, plus a trike race at the SPEZI and Hase Spezialraeder's tandem gathering in Germany. CycleVision in Lelystad, the Netherlands, is probably the world's largest recumbent event, and this year's takes place on the 5th and 6th June. See reports in past issues of Velo Vision... As usual a number of people have asked if there's a group riding across. Yes :-). Velo Vision editor Peter Eland, along with several other 'regulars', will be travelling out on the ferry from Newcastle to Ijmuiden on the afternoon of Wednesday 2nd June, then cycling from the ferry port to the venue (about 60km, 40 miles as I recall). Riding back to the ferry port on the Monday, which gets us back to the UK early Tuesday morning. Anyone who wants is welcome to join us - feel free to use the comments system to arrange sharing cabins on the ferry etc. YHA members get a 25% discount, and bikes go free :-). I should stress that this is NOT an organised group ride - ride with us at your own risk, may get lost, may contain nuts, etc. Book early at the campsite (t'Oppertje) as it gets full very fast that weekend. Update: Ken Davison informs me that he was unable to get a YHA discount and that bikes now cost £4. Also it appears over-60s discounts have also been stopped. Further update It seems the YHA discount is still in place after all and Ken's had an apology from the top man at DFDS :-) *** SPEZI organiser Hardy Siebecke is keen to attract overseas visitors to the event this year, and in his advert in Velo Vision 12 offered to arrange cheap accommodation for any overseas visitor who gets in touch by the end of January. So get your skates on and email him! He speaks excellent English... Several people have enquired about how to get to the SPEZI (April 24-25) from the UK or further afield. It is possible by train all the way via Eurostar, but journey times are seriously long. The most popular, if less environmentally-friendly, route seems to be to fly to Frankfurt airport and get a train from there (the excellent German trains website www.bahn.de works in English and can help plan the trip. I think you usually need to change trains once.) I'd advise getting there on the Friday evening and returning Monday if possible - otherwise you lose too much of the (weekend) opening hours travelling. See the SPEZI website (English and German) for the details. *** Seamus King forwarded this press release from Leicester: 2004 Leicester Cycling Film Festival We showed 8 films at the 2003 Festival, drew an audience of 500+, gave away 8 free bikes, 300+ bike bells & several hundred bike maps & associated info. As well as having a good laugh. Next year's bike film festival will be on 22/23rd May at the Phoenix in Leicester. Already on the programme is Belleville Rendezvous, Jour de Fete, Premier of Leicester BMX'ers Road Trip to Moscow 'To Russia With Love' and the first dip into the Leicester Cycle Heritage film archive. The Festival Association also plan to launch the 2004 Documentary Short Bike Film Competition and are trying to link up with the excellent New York Bike Film Festival: see www.bikefilmfestival.com for their details. *** Back to Germany, and Yo Rollenbeck from Hase Spezialraeder writes: "We will have a trike race on the Saturday evening of the SPEZI, which is on the 24th of April. Anybody with a trike can join in. Check the SPEZI site for details." "Also we have finalized a date for the Tandem Expo, the 3rd of July. The Expo features mainly tandem producers but we will turn it as always into a nice memorable event. Meanwhile there will be a tandem meeting from the 2-4 July with Tandem family and Tandem sport tours." Some more info about the tandem event is here. Posted on 16 January 2004 Your comments ...
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