[ contents ] MARCH 2004

Velo Vision is published quarterly by Velo Vision Ltd. Daily news and updates can be found on www.velovision.co.uk

ISSN 1475-4312

Velo Vision, The Environmental Community Centre, St Nicholas Fields, York, YO10 3EN, UK Tel/Fax +44 1904 438 224 (from UK, 01904 438 224) Email peter@velovision.co.uk Website www.velovision.co.uk

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Peter Eland ARTDIRECTOR: Brian Holt WEBMASTER: Simon Ward PRINTER: Stephens & George Magazines Ltd, Merthyr Tidfil, Wales, UK. Tel 01685 388 888

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Issue 14: early June 2004 Issue 15: early September 2004 Issue 16: early December 2004 Issue 17: early March 2005

Velo Vision is a member of INK, trade association of the alternative press in the UK. www.ink.uk.com

VELO VISION AND VELO-VISION We weren’t first with the name. Velo-Vision (note the hyphen) is a progressive HPV-friendly bike shop in Köörten, near Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, who also make their own recumbents. Velo Vision magazine is working in friendly harmony with Velo-Vision in Germany. Contact them on www.velo-vision.de

Velo Vision is printed on paper produced from sustainable forests to Nordic Swan standards.

Cover photograph: Testing the Greenspeed GT3. Photo: Peter Eland.

Opposite:An outburst of municipal panic about those dreaded cyclists – spotted by photographer JasonPatient at Southampton University.

4 News Handcycling firsts, Burrows' latest, full events listings and more

10Pedalling for profit

Grinding grain with Guatemala's Maya Pedal

13Cross-culture cycling How the capital's cycle campaigners cope with diversity

16The Roller revisited A reader reviews the Redmount Roller recumbent trike

18The trace of form

Enter the world of existential cycling as Claude Marthaler

meets two Swiss artists

21Hope for a HUB Unicyclists to the rescue for DIY internal gearing

24The best load trailer ever?

The Spine trailer from the US family-tested

26Space for two Orbit's Andromeda suspended tandem: comfort or bounce?

30The gettable Greenspeed Testing the GT3 – foldable and very affordable

34Luxury luggage

Quality carriers from Canadian maker Arkel

37Sturmey’s new 8-speed Installed and ridden

38Short reviews Hub dynamos, an electroluminescent vest, books, mirrors

and more

42Letters

Your feedback, ideas and images

48Buyer’s Guide: Family cycling We examine the wonderful world of cycling with children

57Subscribe to Velo Vision And details of the 2004 Cycle and Recycle calendar

58Adverts

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This month’s inside cover image has been supplied by Jason Patient Photography: Tel 01890 883408, mobile 07745 889208 email jasonpatient@lineone.net or see www.cycling-images.co.uk

ROLL ON SUMMER

Hooray! The days are finally

starting to get longer, the sun’s

occasionally peeking out of the

clouds, and summer’s cycling

goodness is nearly upon us.

Velo Visionwill be at most of the

year’s main cycling events, starting

with the SPEZI in Germany, and

then on to CycleVision in the

Netherlands in early June. We’ll

actually have to produce next issue

a week or so early so as to have it

posted out before travelling over to

CycleVision – luckily quite a few

articles are already lined up,

including a test of the Hase

titanium handcycle and a review

of three velomobiles.

Doing this issue’s bike tests has

been particularly challenging. Rain,

snow and short days conspired to

limit photography opportunities

to a handful of freezing-cold

afternoons. So special thanks go to

the brave volunteers who modelled

for me, even summoning an

occasional smile as the icy wind

whistled around their ears. And as

ever, thanks also to the many

reader-contributors who have

given up their time, energy and

warm sofas to put together reports

and articles for the magazine.

Peter Eland

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