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Welcome to Velo Vision magazine, covering specialised bikes, cycling as transport and human power. It's a quarterly dose of cycle inspiration.The current issue is Issue 16. The next issue is out early March 2005.
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Pre-Cyclefest updateCyclefest is just days away; Velo Vision will be at Interbike in Vegas this year; also at London's Cycle 2004 event; new KMX adult version pics now up, Bike Week breaks records, cycle conference puts up papers, Russians propose pedal-propelled tourist submarine, Swedish velomobile plans... As Cyclefest looms along with Issue 15 deadlines, here's a few recent stories that caught my eye... Cyclefest Eagerly anticipated Cyclefest is just days away - in fact, the programme suggest that first arrivals will roll up tomorrow (Wednesday) night. If you've not already registered do it on the spot when you turn up. Lots of things of interest will be there, including the ICE low-cost trikes. I'll be there from the Friday afternoon onwards... Interbike - Las Vegas I've decided to go for a change of scene and to give the big European shows (Eurobike, IFMA) a miss this year - and to report instead on Interbike, the major US bike show in Las Vegas in early October. It will be great to meet, I hope, many of my US industry colleagues and magazine contributors in person, and to get a first-hand look at the US cycling scene. Anyone who'd like to meet up, please email me and we'll arrange it. Cycle 2004 - London As last year we'll be at the Cycle 2004 show in Islington's Business Design Centre, open to the public 23rd to 26th September. We'll be sharing space with Airnimal, ICE and KMX on stand 205. KMX X Class - new pics As we reported earlier the KMX child's recumbent trike is being joined by an adult version - and some more 'pre-production' pics have now replaced the fuzzy prototype shots which were on the X Class page before. The specification looks pretty much unchanged since our previous write-up. There are apparently still a number of the first 50 left at £595 plus delivery... Bike Week records broken The commendable Bikeweek reports: "This year's Bike Week (12-20 June) including the annual Bike2Work promotion was a huge success, with 55% more participants than in 2003. 180,000+ people took part in 1,406 local events run by 926 organisers. There were 1,210 events in England (including 208 in Greater London), 117 in Scotland, 47 in Wales and 26 in Northern Ireland. The largest categories of event organisers were local authorities (236), other employers (121) and cycle campaign groups (107)." Congratulations to all involved. Cycle conference report online Peter Cox reports "The new Cycling and Society Research Group has now got off the ground to provide a forum for academic study on cycling in the social sciences. Some papers from our recent conference are at this website." Russians propose HPV tourist sub Thanks to BikeBiz who spotted this report at a Russian new agency. It describes how a new tourist submarine will use a bicycle-style propulsion system. Apparently the machine will be easy to use and failsafe - although it does seem to be no more than a media-friendly concept at the moment. I've emailed the academic at St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University who is behind the idea for pictures of the working model, but no reply as yet... Swedish Velomobiles site Thanks to Andrea Casalotti for sending this link to a site (in what looks like Swedish) which has some nice images of pedalcars and velomobiles, presumably from Sweden. Can any reader translate? There are some particularly clear drawings on the 'Pilot' page. Posted on 03 August 2004 Your comments ...
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