I've been interested in this sort of stuff for a while now, seeing how you've solved several problems here will definitely help me form up a more practical everyday use design
I remember working for a company that made the unwind and accumulator for the first Nomex honeycomb material. They printed carbon ink strips on the sheets and offset them in the stack to make the hexagons. After that, they pressed and heated the sheets together and later burned out the carbon ink with electricity to make the voids in a roughly 2 meter square block. That was 1980s super secret stuff then.
Love how under all the composites, you’re “only” running cable brakes and mechanical shifting. Shows where the speed really comes from! Having thrashed a loaded touring bike into the wind for 100km today, I find the concept of one of these appealing…
Beautifully done! An idea, if you don't mind, concerning hydration. In my velomobile, I simply lay a Camelbak bladder on the floor of the velo next to the seat with the tube lying across my lap. Easy to use, and when I'm done drinking, I simply spit the tube out. Thank you so much for the video, yours is a fascinating machine. Best of luck in future BHPC races!
Brilliant piece of engineering. Just a thought, where the undercarriage arms retract you could place some deflectors before the holes to minimise air entering and causing drag. 😊
impressive work, would be interesing to try out whether all monocoque construction, over internal frame and non structural shell or hybrid would help trim the weight, watching this machine on the track it certainly munches up other HPV's. Thanks for posting
1000 thanks for making and sharing this footage! In my opinion this is the best design ever of a fully faired recumbent bike, confirmed by the awesome racing performance of Slash and yourself. Such a pity, that there's no way to buy something like that. So I'm on the way to build my own. The bike itself already works pretty well (made of aluminium). I'm not able to handle with composite materials, but I fortunately found a used shell (bumble bike) from german racing activities in the 90s. For the landing gear I also want to copy your solution, but with bigger wheels and a slightly different activation mechanism. I wonder if it is possible to use this machine for every day commuting on flat good bicycle lanes. Do you have any experience or suggestions for this? Is this doomed to fail? Stay tuned and best regards from southern Germany.
Well thanks for your kind comments. Personally I wouldn't use this in traffic - visibility is quite limited and the turning lock is limited - both are rectifiable to a certain extent. But the biggest problem is that the landing gear only works on perfectly level ground - it's the same for Beano too. Three wheels solve this - ie a velomobile!
For the hotter day(s) we get in the UK, perhaps a ventisit pad, tinted lexan, and a variable diverter for the screen to divert more air to rider? Is this bike different from snoopy? Its rather nice! I expect you've thought of covers for the landing gear wheel holes, maybe another lever for those on spring loaded cables.
Thanks for your kind comments. I got a copy of 'The Leading Edge: Aerodynamic Design of Ultra-streamlined Land Vehicles' for xmas this year - it's a great book, but thanks for the offer.
Out-flippen-standing! In a couple of shots I think I saw the moulds in the background? Did you make a one-piece plug that you built these from? It'd be interesting to see a similar video to this one where you talk through the build process.
I'm sure it took a lot of time, effort and expertise to fabricate that impressive faring. I wonder whether anyone building their own velomobiles/streamliners has considered using a stiff safety cage wrapped with transparent plastic sheets (stretchy, like cling film, but thicker to cope with the air flow) for all-round visibility, reduced weight and ease of replacement following mishaps?
Awesome job! Did you use a female mold, or just a male plug for the main body shell? Very Hard to make it any better and keep it practical to use by your self. Its all in the details and mayde smoothing the enges of windscreen would have biggest effect.
make the air supply tube smooth. The ribbed surface increases air turbulence. or better yet, make air intakes on the side surfaces of the body. with the windows closed you will increase the car's streamlining
Questions (I'm sure I'll think of more) 1. Are the short cranks more for biomechanical efficiency, or more to keep the size of the footbox (and hence the nose of the fairing) as small as possible? 2. How close is the cassette to your right knee? Is this a problem? Would an epicyclic, geared to have direct drive at 40mph, be better as keeping the chain straight and having less transmission gubbins intruding into your leg room?
1) Mainly to keep the size of the footbox as small as possible - the whole aero shape starts from the footbox 2) the cassette isn't close to my right knee - the chain gets quite close to my leg, but the reverse fork moves this into the thinner 'calf area' rather than the wider 'knee area' of a conventional FWD fork arrangement. A straight chain to a Rohloff Speed Drive may be easier, but it's less efficient (circa 94%), and costs a lot more...
I think I understand as to why "front Wheel Drive." A much simpler chain drive... But I still wound prefer a rear wheel configuration. Also I would have gone with a "tadpole" 3 wheel unit. No "landing gear." Where does one get or did you fabricate the windscreen? Also did you do the body lay-up on a carved mold form? Or did you hollow the body out after obtaining the preferred shape.
You did a very nice job on it, in both design and execution. That was a ton of work to build. I mean that sincerely, and I want you to understand that before you read what I say next. As top notch as that bike is, at the end of the day, you get killed by Beano every time. Is it vehicle or engine that's making the difference?
I'd like to know that too - it's infuriating!!! Hopefully we can get to a track later in the year and do some roll down tests with Woodstock vs Beano vs Notso
@@russellbridge2721 Testing them together would be helpful if the test speeds are high enough to match racing speeds. The aerodynamic drag, as you certainly know, increases with speed, so the faster you run them in the test, the clearer the differences will show up. Is your bike wider or taller than Beano? And can you make doors to cover your landing gear? I'm just thinking of obvious things that I'm sure you have already considered. By my thinking, just from looking at the two bikes, I'd say that they were pretty equally matched. My thought is that you two should be neck and neck. But on race day, he laps you in longer races. That really bugs me. And if it bugs me, I fully understand how it must be infuriating to you. How does Slash take this? Is he a serious rival who's tight lipped about his rig and unwilling to reveal trade secrets? Or has he been helping you out all this time?
I own highracer recumbent and when i test one lower highracer recumbent i find out its getting harder to control bike with lower gravity center go. This faired lowracer have to be really hard to controll since every move you made in shell will throw bike out of ballance and only fast and right measured reactions can counter imballance before it big and bike drop on any side.
Hi Wes. The tubing is some 51mm ID industrial hoover hose - lightweight and flexible, but I'm open to ideas on other materials/products if you know of any?
@@russellbridge If you haven't already, maybe do some "precise" testing to check power vs. speed with the nose hole plugged vs. unplugged. If no significant difference, great! If the nose hole is draggier than you'd like, maybe try a NACA-type port on top of / in front of your head with a small hose pointed at your face would be good. That's what I'm using in my streamliners. Supposedly, everyone at BM who starts with a nose hole ends up plugging it up and getting air from somewhere else. But of course, your air needs are much greater in your circuit races.
@@larrylem3582 Will do. It'd probably be a better way to supply the air to my head that way, but 50% of the air coming through the nose is directed to the inside of the screen to stop it fogging up - even on a dry day yesterday I could see that the screen was trying to fog up and the air was just about keeping it clear.
@@larrylem3582 I think the air to the rider's head would be best with a naca duct as you suggest, but 50% of the air coming in at the front supplies air to the screen to stop it misting. Even on a dry day yesterday the air being blown over the screen was only just enough to stop it fogging up. It's all a balancing act...
Basically, two things are missing to make velomobiles popular, whether one, two, three or four wheeled: mass production to bring the price down & a radiator of some sort to cool the rider in hot weather, especially if fully enclosed for optimum aerodynamics or rainy weather, something to beat defog the windows. Cooling the human power engine is a big problem. After watching videos of Myth Busters about dimpled golf balls & dimpled cars, it seems the depressions create air pockets which act like ball bearings, making better laminar airflow. If a clear, stiff, outermost layer, pivoting on a front & rear center bearing on a basically elliptical main body allows the clear membrane with dimpled depressions to do the same thing … If in addition to that it has a small hole in each dimple’s middle, when turned a few degrees it aligns with similar holes in the main body (hundreds, maybe thousands, perfectly multiple CNC drills, when manufactured, drilling straight through both membranes when aligned … This would allow you to open & close holes, like pores in your skin to let sweat moisture out & fresh, cooler air in. Several alternative versions come to mind. Basically, the main hardbody inside the clear windshield outer shell would be made of hollow tubes, at forward & backward ends, epoxied together. When the outer shell with matching holes is rotated to align with the main body holes, also made of tubes epoxied together, a blast of fresh air is available when needed while racing. When this outer rigid membrane or windshield is rotated a few degrees, these holes align with non holes in the main body, closing up both holes for better aerodynamics. Just imagine an elliptical golf ball with alternating dimples, half with holes & half without. The outer membrane has holes where the other does not. Another option takes a tip from astronauts in a tube suite, like long john underwear, worn while in their space suits. Their bodies would overheat, inside their spacesuits, without cooling fluid running through their tube underwear. The fluid runs through a hose attached to a cooling device each astronaut holds in one of his hands. This is used while walking, fully suited, to the space capsule. A similar device as a back pack was worn by astronauts walking on the moon, with no atmosphere. In the vacuum of space, one side of you in sunlight is broiling, while the shadow side is far below freezing. The tubed long john underwear balance this out. Now, if we remember old stegosaurus, when Earth was hotter, he had a big fanlike plate of long spine-spikes, sinew & skin on his back with veins running through it to cool his blood; much like the big ears on an African elephant. So, with the foot pedals to power a small fan or small electric motor to power a pump, would this make sense to cool a pedal cycler? Is there someone able to crunch the numbers? Alternatively, if it’s just air diversion, if the back fan or sail, whichever you prefer to call it, of the stegosaurus velomobile, is just air tubes, perpendicular to the center front & back centerline of the velomobile, then side winds will just flow through … But if you have a diverter which can block air flow & redirect it to the pedaler & back up & out to the other end of the fan-sail tubes, the pedaler should get a big breeze of fresh air. Of course i haven’t tried any of these ideas, but something along these lines might be the next big thing in velomobile technology. There must be some way to provide a cooling radiator for the human engine. I’ve also read about a Japanese invention, which is basically just a hollow suit with some small air-moving cooling fans to cool the wearer. These fans are basically the same as used in personal computers. These are also permitted to cool computing devices in racing streamliners at Battle Mountain, but not the rider. That may just be another artificial rule to be ignored for practical streamliners when used in cities & suburbs. Also, i’ve heard mentioned, using one or both wheels of the streamliner as a fan to cool the pedaler. When shrouded, for efficiency, if air vent diverters are installed that can be opened or closed to cool the pedaler as needed , maybe that’s the answer. I’ve also seen hand held hairdryers by an assistant, attached by an air hose to the enclosed pedal cycler waiting for his turn to race. The heating element of the hairdryer is turned off, of course, blow cooling air on the pedal cycler. So, some of these ideas aren’t really new, but most are only briefly proposed, as yet uncomputed & untested. And with electric assist becoming popular, a little assistance with cooling the pedalist is more possible. I’m looking forward to the time when these problems are solved. Aa you may know, most of velomobile history is about a century old. Safety bicycles, pedal cars, cycle cars, internal combustion, electric motors & soapbox dirby gravity cars; pedal power only, or some combination, preceded today’s adult, fully faired pedal cars. The modern velomobile of 2024 still has a long way to go before becoming truly popular. Not only the car itself, but proper infrastructure in America; new cities with separate lanes with barricades, or even separate pathways for pedestrians, cyclists & automobiles, like in Dutch & lowland countries of Europe. And as it turns out, with oceans rising, new cities are needed, further inland. Downtown, the automobile may be fully banned, for the protection of pedestrians & cyclists, the last few delivery miles dedicated to cyclists with some pedal assist. Also, we must not forget the Rhat Racer, & other such pedaled vehicles to pedal yourself healthy on long freeway commutes with pedal power AMPLIFICATION. So, there is a whole range of pedal power speeds & applications. After all, velomobile just means “fast mobile.” Just as long as it’s at least twice as fast as walking, affordable, practical, climate-saving, health preserving velomobiles would make sense.
Hi Russel, I can not answer directly, I don't know why... Anyway on my channel you can find some videos about the building of my streamliner, I hope to hit the track on saturday. I may be at the championships in august to compete in your category.
I've been interested in this sort of stuff for a while now, seeing how you've solved several problems here will definitely help me form up a more practical everyday use design
Russell, you're an inspiration for us all. What an amazing streamliner!
Thank you
Bri
A very proper build, clean, efficient and slick. Well done sir.
I remember working for a company that made the unwind and accumulator for the first Nomex honeycomb material. They printed carbon ink strips on the sheets and offset them in the stack to make the hexagons. After that, they pressed and heated the sheets together and later burned out the carbon ink with electricity to make the voids in a roughly 2 meter square block. That was 1980s super secret stuff then.
wow
Love how under all the composites, you’re “only” running cable brakes and mechanical shifting. Shows where the speed really comes from! Having thrashed a loaded touring bike into the wind for 100km today, I find the concept of one of these appealing…
From my perspective, it is a work of art; hope it serves you well as you charge ahead!
Beautifully done! An idea, if you don't mind, concerning hydration. In my velomobile, I simply lay a Camelbak bladder on the floor of the velo next to the seat with the tube lying across my lap. Easy to use, and when I'm done drinking, I simply spit the tube out. Thank you so much for the video, yours is a fascinating machine. Best of luck in future BHPC races!
Very nice. Looks nice and slippery.
Beautiful job and wonderful video, thank you!
Brilliant piece of engineering. Just a thought, where the undercarriage arms retract you could place some deflectors before the holes to minimise air entering and causing drag. 😊
Beautiful bike !
Great work and
Innovative design
I like it !
Super! Thank you for showing all the details, I'm building something similar
Interesting! Any pics/videos?
@@russellbridge2721 I have posted some stuff on youtube
Very innovative and great construction. Thanks for sharing
Thank you, i was always wondering how these things look like from the inside!
Amazing machine! ❤
Lovely design and build, I hope you get teh results you're expecting just what you need to pop down the shops in a rush before they close.
impressive work, would be interesing to try out whether all monocoque construction, over internal frame and non structural shell or hybrid would help trim the weight, watching this machine on the track it certainly munches up other HPV's. Thanks for posting
Really nice work
1000 thanks for making and sharing this footage! In my opinion this is the best design ever of a fully faired recumbent bike, confirmed by the awesome racing performance of Slash and yourself. Such a pity, that there's no way to buy something like that. So I'm on the way to build my own. The bike itself already works pretty well (made of aluminium). I'm not able to handle with composite materials, but I fortunately found a used shell (bumble bike) from german racing activities in the 90s. For the landing gear I also want to copy your solution, but with bigger wheels and a slightly different activation mechanism. I wonder if it is possible to use this machine for every day commuting on flat good bicycle lanes. Do you have any experience or suggestions for this? Is this doomed to fail?
Stay tuned and best regards from southern Germany.
Well thanks for your kind comments. Personally I wouldn't use this in traffic - visibility is quite limited and the turning lock is limited - both are rectifiable to a certain extent. But the biggest problem is that the landing gear only works on perfectly level ground - it's the same for Beano too. Three wheels solve this - ie a velomobile!
A velomobile is probably a lot better for commuting.
impressive! thanks for sharing.
Top speed? Mach 1? Mach 1.5?
I bet 50 to 54 mph
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Good Luck for the World's in August.
For the hotter day(s) we get in the UK, perhaps a ventisit pad, tinted lexan, and a variable diverter for the screen to divert more air to rider?
Is this bike different from snoopy? Its rather nice!
I expect you've thought of covers for the landing gear wheel holes, maybe another lever for those on spring loaded cables.
That design is flipping fantastic! I have a copy of Goro Tamai’s book I can send if you want it. And I’ve got a Kingsbury’s elliptical drive too.
Thanks for your kind comments. I got a copy of 'The Leading Edge: Aerodynamic Design of Ultra-streamlined Land Vehicles' for xmas this year - it's a great book, but thanks for the offer.
Out-flippen-standing! In a couple of shots I think I saw the moulds in the background? Did you make a one-piece plug that you built these from? It'd be interesting to see a similar video to this one where you talk through the build process.
Full build photos are on my Instagram russellbridge77. The plugs were in two halves, and then I made two 'quarter moulds' from each plug half.
Awesome1
I'm sure it took a lot of time, effort and expertise to fabricate that impressive faring. I wonder whether anyone building their own velomobiles/streamliners has considered using a stiff safety cage wrapped with transparent plastic sheets (stretchy, like cling film, but thicker to cope with the air flow) for all-round visibility, reduced weight and ease of replacement following mishaps?
Awesome job!
Did you use a female mold, or just a male plug for the main body shell?
Very Hard to make it any better and keep it practical to use by your self. Its all in the details and mayde smoothing the enges of windscreen would have biggest effect.
Build diary on Instagram - russellbridge77
make the air supply tube smooth. The ribbed surface increases air turbulence. or better yet, make air intakes on the side surfaces of the body. with the windows closed you will increase the car's streamlining
Questions (I'm sure I'll think of more)
1. Are the short cranks more for biomechanical efficiency, or more to keep the size of the footbox (and hence the nose of the fairing) as small as possible?
2. How close is the cassette to your right knee? Is this a problem? Would an epicyclic, geared to have direct drive at 40mph, be better as keeping the chain straight and having less transmission gubbins intruding into your leg room?
1) Mainly to keep the size of the footbox as small as possible - the whole aero shape starts from the footbox
2) the cassette isn't close to my right knee - the chain gets quite close to my leg, but the reverse fork moves this into the thinner 'calf area' rather than the wider 'knee area' of a conventional FWD fork arrangement. A straight chain to a Rohloff Speed Drive may be easier, but it's less efficient (circa 94%), and costs a lot more...
@@russellbridge Thanks! How long did it take to get used to the shorter cranks?
Very cool! Do you think letting the air escape out the back would be more aerodynamically efficient than flaring out the windows?
Meraviglioso missile 🚀
Try some Plexus on your screen its what they use on aircraft ❤
Is there anyway to fair the balancing wheel cutouts?
I think I understand as to why "front Wheel Drive." A much simpler chain drive... But I still wound prefer a rear wheel configuration. Also I would have gone with a "tadpole" 3 wheel unit. No "landing gear."
Where does one get or did you fabricate the windscreen? Also did you do the body lay-up on a carved mold form? Or did you hollow the body out after obtaining the preferred shape.
Great bike! How much power do you need to maintain a certain speed on the flat?
How does Woodstock differ from Snoopy ?
You did a very nice job on it, in both design and execution. That was a ton of work to build. I mean that sincerely, and I want you to understand that before you read what I say next.
As top notch as that bike is, at the end of the day, you get killed by Beano every time. Is it vehicle or engine that's making the difference?
I'd like to know that too - it's infuriating!!! Hopefully we can get to a track later in the year and do some roll down tests with Woodstock vs Beano vs Notso
@@russellbridge2721
Testing them together would be helpful if the test speeds are high enough to match racing speeds. The aerodynamic drag, as you certainly know, increases with speed, so the faster you run them in the test, the clearer the differences will show up.
Is your bike wider or taller than Beano? And can you make doors to cover your landing gear? I'm just thinking of obvious things that I'm sure you have already considered.
By my thinking, just from looking at the two bikes, I'd say that they were pretty equally matched. My thought is that you two should be neck and neck. But on race day, he laps you in longer races. That really bugs me. And if it bugs me, I fully understand how it must be infuriating to you.
How does Slash take this? Is he a serious rival who's tight lipped about his rig and unwilling to reveal trade secrets? Or has he been helping you out all this time?
I own highracer recumbent and when i test one lower highracer recumbent i find out its getting harder to control bike with lower gravity center go. This faired lowracer have to be really hard to controll since every move you made in shell will throw bike out of ballance and only fast and right measured reactions can counter imballance before it big and bike drop on any side.
love it Russ. Is there no better way to get the Air to the rider? That hole looks draggy. I obv know nothing about this.
Hi Wes. The tubing is some 51mm ID industrial hoover hose - lightweight and flexible, but I'm open to ideas on other materials/products if you know of any?
@@russellbridge If you haven't already, maybe do some "precise" testing to check power vs. speed with the nose hole plugged vs. unplugged. If no significant difference, great! If the nose hole is draggier than you'd like, maybe try a NACA-type port on top of / in front of your head with a small hose pointed at your face would be good. That's what I'm using in my streamliners. Supposedly, everyone at BM who starts with a nose hole ends up plugging it up and getting air from somewhere else. But of course, your air needs are much greater in your circuit races.
@@larrylem3582 Will do. It'd probably be a better way to supply the air to my head that way, but 50% of the air coming through the nose is directed to the inside of the screen to stop it fogging up - even on a dry day yesterday I could see that the screen was trying to fog up and the air was just about keeping it clear.
@@larrylem3582 I think the air to the rider's head would be best with a naca duct as you suggest, but 50% of the air coming in at the front supplies air to the screen to stop it misting. Even on a dry day yesterday the air being blown over the screen was only just enough to stop it fogging up. It's all a balancing act...
Basically, two things are missing to make velomobiles popular, whether one, two, three or four wheeled: mass production to bring the price down & a radiator of some sort to cool the rider in hot weather, especially if fully enclosed for optimum aerodynamics or rainy weather, something to beat defog the windows.
Cooling the human power engine is a big problem.
After watching videos of Myth Busters about dimpled golf balls & dimpled cars, it seems the depressions create air pockets which act like ball bearings, making better laminar airflow.
If a clear, stiff, outermost layer, pivoting on a front & rear center bearing on a basically elliptical main body allows the clear membrane with dimpled depressions to do the same thing …
If in addition to that it has a small hole in each dimple’s middle, when turned a few degrees it aligns with similar holes in the main body (hundreds, maybe thousands, perfectly multiple CNC drills, when manufactured, drilling straight through both membranes when aligned …
This would allow you to open & close holes, like pores in your skin to let sweat moisture out & fresh, cooler air in.
Several alternative versions come to mind.
Basically, the main hardbody inside the clear windshield outer shell would be made of hollow tubes, at forward & backward ends, epoxied together. When the outer shell with matching holes is rotated to align with the main body holes, also made of tubes epoxied together, a blast of fresh air is available when needed while racing.
When this outer rigid membrane or windshield is rotated a few degrees, these holes align with non holes in the main body, closing up both holes for better aerodynamics.
Just imagine an elliptical golf ball with alternating dimples, half with holes & half without.
The outer membrane has holes where the other does not.
Another option takes a tip from astronauts in a tube suite, like long john underwear, worn while in their space suits.
Their bodies would overheat, inside their spacesuits, without cooling fluid running through their tube underwear. The fluid runs through a hose attached to a cooling device each astronaut holds in one of his hands.
This is used while walking, fully suited, to the space capsule.
A similar device as a back pack was worn by astronauts walking on the moon, with no atmosphere.
In the vacuum of space, one side of you in sunlight is broiling, while the shadow side is far below freezing.
The tubed long john underwear balance this out.
Now, if we remember old stegosaurus, when Earth was hotter, he had a big fanlike plate of long spine-spikes, sinew & skin on his back with veins running through it to cool his blood; much like the big ears on an African elephant.
So, with the foot pedals to power a small fan or small electric motor to power a pump, would this make sense to cool a pedal cycler?
Is there someone able to crunch the numbers?
Alternatively, if it’s just air diversion, if the back fan or sail, whichever you prefer to call it, of the stegosaurus velomobile, is just air tubes, perpendicular to the center front & back centerline of the velomobile, then side winds will just flow through …
But if you have a diverter which can block air flow & redirect it to the pedaler & back up & out to the other end of the fan-sail tubes, the pedaler should get a big breeze of fresh air.
Of course i haven’t tried any of these ideas, but something along these lines might be the next big thing in velomobile technology.
There must be some way to provide a cooling radiator for the human engine.
I’ve also read about a Japanese invention, which is basically just a hollow suit with some small air-moving cooling fans to cool the wearer.
These fans are basically the same as used in personal computers.
These are also permitted to cool computing devices in racing streamliners at Battle Mountain, but not the rider.
That may just be another artificial rule to be ignored for practical streamliners when used in cities & suburbs.
Also, i’ve heard mentioned, using one or both wheels of the streamliner as a fan to cool the pedaler.
When shrouded, for efficiency, if air vent diverters are installed that can be opened or closed to cool the pedaler as needed , maybe that’s the answer.
I’ve also seen hand held hairdryers by an assistant, attached by an air hose to the enclosed pedal cycler waiting for his turn to race.
The heating element of the hairdryer is turned off, of course, blow cooling air on the pedal cycler.
So, some of these ideas aren’t really new, but most are only briefly proposed, as yet uncomputed & untested.
And with electric assist becoming popular, a little assistance with cooling the pedalist is more possible.
I’m looking forward to the time when these problems are solved.
Aa you may know, most of velomobile history is about a century old.
Safety bicycles, pedal cars, cycle cars, internal combustion, electric motors & soapbox dirby gravity cars; pedal power only, or some combination, preceded today’s adult, fully faired pedal cars.
The modern velomobile of 2024 still has a long way to go before becoming truly popular.
Not only the car itself, but proper infrastructure in America; new cities with separate lanes with barricades, or even separate pathways for pedestrians, cyclists & automobiles, like in Dutch & lowland countries of Europe.
And as it turns out, with oceans rising, new cities are needed, further inland.
Downtown, the automobile may be fully banned, for the protection of pedestrians & cyclists, the last few delivery miles dedicated to cyclists with some pedal assist.
Also, we must not forget the Rhat Racer, & other such pedaled vehicles to pedal yourself healthy on long freeway commutes with pedal power AMPLIFICATION.
So, there is a whole range of pedal power speeds & applications.
After all, velomobile just means “fast mobile.”
Just as long as it’s at least twice as fast as walking, affordable, practical, climate-saving, health preserving velomobiles would make sense.
How much would you charge for one? Would you consider making one for me. I would be in no rush.
Hi Russel, I can not answer directly, I don't know why... Anyway on my channel you can find some videos about the building of my streamliner, I hope to hit the track on saturday. I may be at the championships in august to compete in your category.
Not sure why my previous reply isn't visible, but I've had a look at your channel, thanks :) It'd be great to see you racing in August.
it was called woodstock but later renamed to snoopy? or are they two different bikes?
Cool ! How much Watt you need for 40kmh 50kmh , 60kmh
In his latest videos he managed 57.6 km/h average over 1 hour on 199 watts.
I want one
Can you sleep in it?
If you're careful, i would reckon you could