I love riding the velomobile. One of its few disadvantages is that it’s noisier than riding a bike – at low speed you’re near to the ground, there are three wheels, and the whole thing acts like a drum. As…
I took a ride out to Hexham on Friday to see the Tour. The weather was warm and humid, and there were a couple of very heavy showers on the way out. I would say that the velomobile kept me…
Mould prepared with mylar polyester release film & wax edging: Carbon sheets laid up: Top layer (first to go on) – 2×2 Twill, 210gsm. i.e. this cloth needs 210 grammes of resin per square metre to wet it out. Unidirectional…
Finished the mould for the recumbent tourer’s seat today. The surface has been formed with a skin of 6mm flexible MDF, and I’ve used the offcuts from the sheet to define the edges. This stuff has grooves sawn into it…
You may have seen that I was planning to do a lightweight roadtrip from my parents’ place in Kent, back home to the North East. Well, I did it… sort of. OK. I skipped the last day. Because: I’ve spent…
Sooner or later if you’re researching for a cycle tour, you’ll come across the idea of lightweight cycle touring. With lighter stuff, you can go faster, ride up more mountains, and generally just further for the same effort. Less, is…
My slowly progressing home-build recumbent is inching towards completion. Today I made the former for the seat mould. Next weekend (maybe), I’ll skin the top of this with flexible MDF to create the seat’s curves…
We were nervous of the rumours that the North Tyneside Council had already informally taken the decision to remove the Sunrise Cycleway from the coast, so we wrote to our elected members about this. The email was sent on 18th…
It’s been a right 2020 of a year. I mean, clearly the big news is The Plague, which looks to have killed somewhere over 65,000 people in the UK: At the start of the lockdown the supermarkets got stripped bare,…
There’s a school of thought that if, as a driver, you constantly find cyclists are angry at you, then you’re probably a terrible driver. Over the last six months though, I’ve been starting to wonder if this doesn’t cut both ways.…
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