'Bent Riders

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Comment by Ray Hembrow on January 20, 2013 at 3:23pm

 I can agree too, the windchaeter was centainly my piece-de-resitance back in the early 90's when I started into recumbents; i enventually purchased a Greenspeed trike, but had to give it up as a result of straining my knees in my early  [DF/MTB/touring bike] touring days, the trike was the only time they hurt so I moved it along; I now have a Rans bike CLWB

Comment by Paul Martin on January 20, 2013 at 9:37am

That's a fine looking trike!

Comment by Terry Burn on January 19, 2013 at 10:01pm

It was the Windcheater that first got me interested in recumbent trikes when I was in my 20's (30years ago). I even corresponded with Mike Burrows on fledgling email systems when garnering info on the Windcheater!

They were way ahead of their time, the steering setup was revolutionary. I was hooked after reading a review by Richard Ballantyne in "Richards Bicycle Book" (a bible in those days). They were prohibitively expensive back then, so a Greenspeed, while still costly were affordable.

So 30 years down the track I am the proud owner of a Mango velomobile and 2 Greenspeed GT3 trikes. once bent, there is no going back!!

Comment by Luke Revolution on January 19, 2013 at 8:32pm

The Windcheetah is one of the recumbent world’s oldest and most respected trikes. Decades into its life-cycle, it’s still ranked as one of the fastest and most nimble machines that you can buy. Unfortunately it been decidedly difficult to buy one over the last few years. AVD, the parent company, had become well known for not answering the phone or emails and had been largely given up for dead. Thankfully, Karl Sparenberg stepped in a year ago and is well on his way towards dragging the company from the brink. In the following email interview, Karl shares his interesting story, shares his knowledge of business and manufacturing and demonstrates the passion he has for recumbent cycling and the Windcheetah. He’s definitely “one of us.” He also teases a few new AVD projects that are on the horizon. Read on…

http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=8117#more-8117

The Trike: http://www.windcheetah.co.uk/gallery-1.html

What a weapon!

Comment by Martin Simmons on January 6, 2013 at 7:35pm

In QLD there is no speed limit to pedal assist other then the road speed limit.  The @#%# thing is that it can't power the bike by it self( no hub motor is legal)  and its not to exceed 200 watts  but as always just depends on how the copper's feeling at the time

Comment by Paul Martin on January 6, 2013 at 12:15pm

Some more photos from Cycle Vision 2007:

It really is wooden!

Comment by Paul Martin on January 6, 2013 at 12:09pm

That is definitely a wooden Quest. I've seen it before and there were some photos of the 'construction' on a forum somewhere - can't remember the link though, sorry!

The guy who built it was a boat builder (unsurprisingly!) ;)

Comment by Aaron Ball on January 6, 2013 at 11:39am

I still think this is beautiful.  Paul I suspect the velo in that youtube clip is a standard Quest with wood-trim decal, or do you know it to be genuine wood ??

Comment by Doc Embrey on January 6, 2013 at 8:41am

A wooden velomobile would make my heart sing every time I looked at it :D

Thanks too for those links and advice gents. It put a big smile on my face to know that someone else knows the value of a notebook. So many times have I had someone say "what do you need that notebook for, you won't need that", and so many times have I been able to recall some vital information or idea months later because I wrote it down in a notebook (even in this age of smartphones and constant connectivity a notebook remains valuable).

Since blogs can't be done inside a group, I'm going to start a 'discussion' about the progress of this matter. At least things can be organised into threads in a discussion, and I'm hoping a discussion may also get me your advice, opinions and criticisms (and derision and laughter - I reckon calls of "you idiot, what are you doing that for" would either make me more determined or snap me out of my hubris and bring me back to reality :)

Comment by Paul Martin on January 6, 2013 at 8:24am

@Doc

Wooden velomobile you say....?

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