Welcome to Velo Vision Issue Six, June 2002

Wheels of chance

It's that time of year again: time to look forward to the rush of summer events that drag me away from the computer and actually onto a bike - or, more often, see me behind a stand or tramping the aisles of a trade fair.

There'll be a Velo Vision presence at the York Rally in late June, at Cycle Vision in Holland, and at the two UK festivals Cyclefest in Lancaster and Spokesfest in Leicester. Then, between sending Issue Seven to print and receiving it back, we'll be at the Mildenhall Rally near Cambridge, and visit the Eurobike trade show in Germany. Then a London show in late September, and we'll be looking forward to the winter lull.

One of the particularly nice things about all of these cycling events is the coincidences they throw up. So it was that the designer of the new bike lights described on page 19 of this issue just happened to be visiting the same stand as me, at the same time, at a trade show in Birmingham in early March. Somehow, such coincidences always conspire to fill the pages of Velo Vision with stories: not always with as much time to spare as I'd like, but I hope the content is all the fresher for it.

Other pages are more predictable: the bike tests we do, for example. I know a number of readers may be looking at this issue and bemoaning the lack of a recumbent test - fear not, they will return! In fact, we have some rather interesting machines coming up in the next few issues.

PETER ELAND

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Issue Six contents

Some of the articles are now available for you to download as PDF - if you don't already have the required (free) Acrobat Reader software for these you can get it here. Some of the colours look a bit vivid on some of these PDFs - it's better in print!

• 3 Contents and Editor's letter ( PDF, 289k)

• 4 News
  Revolutionary FoxEFolder preview exclusive, HPV hour record and more...

• 10 Folder fever ( PDF, 211k)
  Tinkering with transportables

• 12 Mirage on the Murray
  A down under tour by pedal kayak.

• 16 The icycle bicycle
  We check out the amazing see-through bike.

• 18 On the road with Old Li
  A meeting of worlds in China

• 19 Signal innovation
  Is this the future of cycle lights?

• 20 A whole new way to ride
  Inspirational handcycling from Canada

• 24 Test: Dahon SpeedPro
  Dahon's fast folder, complete with DualDrive hub

• 28 Testing a townie
  A low-maintenance commuter in the spotlight

• 32 Bags of burden
  State-of-the-art courier clobber

• 34 Letters
  MTBs strike back, and no end of canoes and kayaks carried

• 40 SPEZI 2002 ( PDF, 575k)
  Six pages of packed news from Europe's biggest special bike show

• 47 Advertising
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