[ contents ] JUNE 2004

Velo Vision is published quarterly by Velo Vision Ltd. Daily news and updates can be found on our website: 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 PRINTER: Stephens & George Magazines Ltd, Merthyr Tidfil, Wales, UK. Tel 01685 388 888

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Issue 15: early September 2004 Issue 16: early December 2004 Issue 17: early March 2005 Issue 18: early June 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: Andrew Chamings tests Hase’s titanium handcycle.

Opposite:Taking a breather as we climb towards the famous Cliffs of Moher. This is Doonagor Castle near Doolin in County Clare on Ireland’s west coast. Both photos: Peter Eland

4 News Shimano shortages, pedal weddings, event previews and more

10Pedalling projectors London's two wheeled audiovisual hire service

14Wet weather wheels

An innovative campaign to promote winter cycling

16Recycling with the Pedal People

Replacing truck trips for trash

18Talking velomobiles

A full report from the Velomobile Seminar 2004

22Bicycling Science – Third Edition

A brief review, and the story behind the book

24Building a ’bent

A Dutch recumbent via a donor bike – readers report

26Next generation velomobiles

A 1500km test ride for three top fully-faired HPVs

33Cranking the Kettwiesel

Hase's titanium handcycle on the road

36SPEZI 2004 Full report from Germany’s special bike show

44Letters

Southampton strikes back, family feedback, horsey hints

and more reader's letters and pictures

48Buyer’s Guide: utility cycling

Getting about by bike – safe and theft-free

57Subscribe to Velo Vision

And details of the 2004 Cycle and Recycle calendar

58Adverts

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TOP TOURING

Oh, it was good to be out on the bike

again! A two-week break in Ireland

in early April banished the winter

blues for good. It’s been too long

since I rode a proper moving-on

tour. There’s nothing quite like it.

Cycling somewhere new – and

especially somewhere as lovely as

the west coast of Ireland – gives you

an intimate look at the place which

no other form of transport can

match. Even if we were dampened

by the occasional shower, it was

with pity rather than envy that we

watched the coach-loads of tourists

pass by, zooming past the scenery

we were savouring and running to

someone else’s deadline. Most of the

time, though, we saw no coaches

and often no other traffic at all.

There are some marvellously quiet

back routes to enjoy.

After that, it was back to a packed

schedule, with a trip to the SPEZI in

Germany to squeeze in alongside all

of the catching-up. By the time you

read this I’ll have also been off to the

Netherlands for CycleVision, and

will be looking forward to meeting

many readers and friends at the York

Cycle Show on the last weekend in

June. Then there’s the last-ever

Cyclefest in early August – see page 8

of this issue. You could read the

report next issue – or, even better, be

there yourself!

Whatever you do, have a great

summer’s cycling.

Peter Eland

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