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10 Pedalling projectors: London's audiovisual hire service on two wheels
14 Wet Weather Wheels: An innovative campaign to promote winter cycling
16 Recycling with the Pedal People: Replacing truck trips for trash
18 Talking velomobiles : A full report from the Velomobile Seminar 2004
22 Bicycling Science - Third Edition: A brief review, and the story behind the book
24 Building a 'bent: A Dutch recumbent via a donor bike - readers report
26 Next generation velomobiles: A 1500km testride for four top fully-faired HPVs
33 Cranking the Kettwiesel: Hase's titanium handcycle on the road
36 SPEZI 2004: Full report from the German special bike show
44 Letters: Southampton strikes back, family feedback, horsey hints and more readers' letters and pictures
48 Buyer's Guide: Utility cycling: Getting about by bike - safe and theft-free
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Posted on 10 June 2004
Your comments ...
| From: John Turvey (.....) on 28 May 2004 | | So we will see Peter at Cyclevison - unlike Bike Right 9.5 where he failed to appear as he was keeping his promise to meet his publishing deadlines (unlike some no longer published ..... no, don't go into that) |
| From: Peter Eland ([email protected]) on 28 May 2004 | | Incidentally I just spotted that the above cover pic has apostrophes missing in HASE'S and BUYER'S. I would like to reassure readers that in the version sent to the printer these important items of punctuation are present and correct. |
| From: John Shackford ([email protected]) on 28 May 2004 | Peter,
On bended knees-I implore you-please post mine first!
Best regards,
John. |
| From: Tom ([email protected]....) on 28 May 2004 | | No, John, don't go anywhere near there. (Unless you want to take me and team to the pub...) |
| From: Tom (chuckling@the error) on 28 May 2004 | | John T, that is... |
| From: Arch (also@witsend) on 28 May 2004 | | Ah go on Tom, we should get everyone called John to take us to the pub anyway... |
| From: Tom (weeping@thestateofthelockup) on 28 May 2004 | | Nah, it's Mr Scaife who needs to be taken to the pub - the poor guy can't pedal... |
| From: Dog (Holier than thou@ all times) on 28 May 2004 | | Surely nonje of the Upstanding,sober, moral and enlightened people that subscribe to this sensitive publication do NOT indulge in the sins of Alcohol, I assume that the Pub in question serves coffee and tea? |
| From: John T (....) on 28 May 2004 | | Any current CofC employee is welcome to a drink - I will be in the sailing club bar at t"Oppertje campsite in Lelystad on Friday 4 June and Saturday 5 June |
| From: Silverback (@home) on 29 May 2004 | | I see Seamus has got a mention on bentrider stop the presses. They are asking everyone to email him. |
| From: Tom ([email protected]) on 01 June 2004 | | John, you're a gentleman. The seven of us in the CofC office today, though, wonder if you realise how quickly our empire is growing... |
| From: Andy Scaife ([email protected]) on 01 June 2004 | | This would be a good time to remind everyone that there will be a short ride, and not-so-short drinkies, at the York Cycle Rally, for all like-minded velovisionaries. your most unusual machine would be a boon, but everyone welcome anyway. We will be meeting at 7p.m. on saturday (to give the traders a fair chance to pack up) for a ride on Sustrans path and quiet lanes, about 7 miles each way, or to a further point if we're all keen! The pub and route are child-friendly as well. I'll be bringing two, so all the small people are invited along too. Start location will be signed, or Peter's stall will have info. |
| From: andy scaife ([email protected]) on 01 June 2004 | | and NO sofa-cycles allowed!!!!!! |
| From: John Turvey (jt@misersareus(ihope).co.uk) on 01 June 2004 | I am relying on Jim having you all working over the weekend - if the entire staff of CofC are in Lelystad on Friday or Saturday either Jim has expanded much faster and further than I thought, or business must be bad.
(Note that the offer of a drink is geographically limited) |
| From: Tom (parching@medesk) on 02 June 2004 | Foiled! Quiet weekend, actually, tho' we've broken the 100 event berrier this year.
Andy, you have to admit that the Sofacycle IS the most inappropriate vehicle we could field... |
| From: Arch (sitting on a toadstool) on 03 June 2004 | | "so all the small people are invited along too" Do you mean the Elfin folk, Andy? Presumably on Fairy Cycles. |
| From: Tim Kirk ([email protected]) on 07 June 2004 | | As a York native with two recumbent I'm happy to offer a spare up for the CTC ride if anyone is interested (I'm about 5'11' and have choice of M5 Shockproof [finally back on the road] and Greenspeed GTR). I'd recommend inexperienced riders consider the trike as it's somewhat easier to ride... If nothing is sorted before the event then I'll see about putting a note on Pete's stall or with Rob Hague as the Greenspeed UK agent. |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 07 June 2004 | Bryan on bentrideronline.com was asking people to send me hate mail to persuade me to write for him 'cos he said I'd rebuked his offer. Actually, I'd rebuffed his offer.
Actually he offered me a lot of other very nice things too, like shiny new 'bents to test ride, but once again I shall be declining his generous offer |
| From: Larry Varney ([email protected]) on 28 July 2004 | | Loved the issue, as always. I am a little miffed that, in the trike racing picture from SPEZI (pages 36-37), no mention is made of the identity of the out-of-focus figure in the upper-right. |
| From: mugu ([email protected]) on 11 March 2005 | | i dey ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
| From: Zaharan Razak ([email protected]) on 10 April 2005 | | Dear Larry, This is a common enough case of I-know-you-you-don't-know-me, a price some have to pay (or should that be a source of hidden pleasure) for being themselves but whatever it is, the person of the blurred figure in the photo at 2004 Spezi bent race should consider himself one of the chosen (alright lucky then) few brought out for mention (alright freeze-dried I mean framed then) of course being captioned as well would be an icing whereas scores of others were never even captured including yours truly although he was a Spezi attendee and that is, after all, in case someone miss it, the bottomline of this out-of-the-blue bolt, er, in case someone miss it again, a case of Fan Strikes Back, yes, Larry, if not for your judicious jottings on BROL, I wouldn't be here in the Bent World where I am today. And where would that be? Just getting off the starting line in a long plan to collect as many bents for as long as I live to be plonked in front of the tv, in the shed, having already got the Pino and will be collecting the Gs GT5 next week. Larry's review of the GT3 and Peter's too turn the corner in my choice of the GT5. Next in line will be KMX Adult and Child, Catrike Road 2005 for this year and next year will be the Honda CX31 assisted PetTrike. After that comes the 2Can, US Alleweder, Varna Handcycle, Canadian Ecocycle. All that, dear readers, will be stored in a shed, in a rural village, in a state, in a country, in a part of the world where not a single native that I know of has or will ever bought/buy a recumbent trike. Imagine guys, in a sea of straights, I am the only one with a bent mind, and this, guys, you know as well as I do, is not good for tribal collectiveness. Now, don't for a moment, ever suspect I am secretly planning to drag anyone of you into a brotherhood of guilty by association and be seen as a tribal oddball or squatting down (a Yoga asana this) to bent level. Enough blathering then. |
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