Wim Harwig

Categorie: bicycle

  • my velomobile history …

    my velomobile history …

    For years I’ve used a velomobile for my commute. I had a good condition although I was a heavy smoker and used to smoke even while cycling.In November 2013 I quit my job at the Thermphos-site and had to use a car, for my employers were not accessible by bicycle or the distance was way…

  • putting things together …

    putting things together …

    After this photo I rounded the edges of the hinges a bit better with a file. The corona crisis made me think back to my father who always kept the “used-but-still-good” screws, bolts and nuts in glass jars. I have adopted that habit … in times of crisis always handy to have some spare in…

  • my recumbents

    my recumbents

    Since I’m working on Quest 552 I put my Zephyr next to it, to compare the height …I’ll also clean my Zephyr tomorrow, because it’s spring and it’ll get only warmer outside.

  • Cycling ancesters

    Cycling ancesters

    I think my father (standing right) is about 18 years old when this photo was made… so the photo is about 100 years old! The photo fades away, I tried to get a bit more contrast in it. Nothing is eternal … My father apparently had a nice luxury bike! But my grandfather was already…

  • Top half is off …

    Top half is off …

    The top is off so that I can easily reach everything inside the Quest-body. I clearly notice that my own body is now 64 years old and the flexibility has disappeared in recent years. The small openings in Quest 552 are such that I have to choose; either see through it, or put one arm…

  • Rims

    Rims

    How long can you continue driving with the original velomobile rims? Today I lost confidence and decided to renew them …

  • headwindcycling … tomorrow !

    headwindcycling … tomorrow !

    I immediately think of the following video when people ask me what “headwindcycling” means. Tomorrow I’ll be there, making photos of these sportsmen on Gazelle bikes (the simple model that is common in the Netherlands).

  • Cycling home after the nightshift

    Cycling home after the nightshift

    Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me … the “photos” of the phone will have to do it … It was a beautiful sunrise! How much money would an average person want to spend to experience this beautiful sunset while cycling in a comfortable velomobile? I earned that money this morning on top…

  • Dutch bicycle

    Dutch bicycle

  • enthusiastic Dutch cyclists on typical Dutch bicycles

    enthusiastic Dutch cyclists on typical Dutch bicycles

    They participated in the Dutch championship Headwind Cycling 2018.

  • hard disc crashed … !@#$%^&*

    hard disc crashed … !@#$%^&*

    While I was working on the many photos I made at the Dutch Championships Headwindcycling, one of my external hard discs crashed … It proves how important it is not to rely on just one memory! I didn’t lose any photos, but I have to do all the post-processing once more …  Fortunately, I’m just…

  • first ride in my Quest-velomobile since a long, long time …

    first ride in my Quest-velomobile since a long, long time …

    The weather was nice today. That’s why I decided to take my velomobile out of the cobwebs and see what it takes to get it “up and running”. The fastest way is to pump up the tires, get in the velomobile and cycle around Walcheren. and then see what’s going wrong ….      …

  • seen in our garden today …

    seen in our garden today …

         

  • Zephyr

    Zephyr

    I took my old faithful Zephyr out of the shed and sprayed all the cobwebs off.   The frame is made of stainless steel, the last one that Danny Siepman had made before he moved out of Colijnsplaat. details about the history and the many shapes of this bike can be found on this old…

  • Cycle Vision 2018

    Cycle Vision 2018

      I visited Cycle Vision and made some pictures …