[ contents ] DECEMBER 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 17: early March 2005 Issue 18: early June 2005 Issue 19: early September 2005 Issue 20: early December 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.

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

Cover photograph: Airnimal’s Joey is an invigorating ride: see page 30.

Opposite:Every year York’s River Ouse floods. It’s fun for cyclists when it’s just a few inches deep over the riverside bike path: just don’t drop the camera! All photos by Peter Eland.

4 News Remembering Gardner Martin, Human Power archive,

new Trice models and more

10Interbike Part One First section of our mammoth report fromVegas

14’Bent for less A reader compares two second-hand recumbents

16Cycling on Venus

Examining 21st century Londoners’ attitudes to women

in cycling

19Topped up with bikes

How just 72 hours of bike tuition made a big community

difference

20Cycle 2004

An exciting new folding bike and more at London’s show

22Small is beautiful

Mike Burrows and Ian Sims discuss a hot topic for HPVers:

short cranks

24Thrifty three wheelers Two new owners give their impressions of the adult KMX trike

26Moulton magic? The Bridgestone Moulton put through its paces...

30Airnimal action Taking Airnimal’s budget model, the Joey, for a spin

32Book reviews Urban cycling, American travel and Marthaler’s marvellous

picture book

34Short reviews Riding the 5.8kg minibike, a hideaway mirror and more...

36Interbike Part Two

Continuing the coverage: inventions from pedals to sidecars

44Letters

Weddings, velomobile feedback, the Xevon – all this and more

in your letters and emails

52Buyer’s Guide: Load-carrying

New and updated – we return to the subject of pedal-powered

haulage.

56Subscribe to Velo Vision

And order calendars and back issues

57Adverts The best, most interesting advertising around.

Please support the companies, who support this magazine.

66The Back Page Cycling crossword, a cartoon, and Spot the Difference!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Some fast readers finish their

Velo Visionthe day it arrives –

but our new Back Page should

put a stop to that! Flip to just

inside the back cover to

discover some fiendish puzzles

and amusements which will, we

hope, provide a cycling-related

diversion from festivities.

Contributions from readers,

especially crosswords, for next

issue would be most welcome.

Feel free to photocopy this page

– and of course the order form

on page 56 – if you don’t want

to mark the magazine.

It only remains to wish all

readers a merry Christmas break,

safe cycling and a great 2005!

Peter Eland

PS The new Cycle and Recycle

2005 calendars have been

getting a great reception from

readers who have received them

so far, and make ideal gifts.

We’ll make every effort to get

orders placed in December to

you before Christmas. More

details on our website, or see

page 56 of this issue.

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