Wim Harwig

Category: bicycling

  • Velomobile printed on shirts

    “Spreadshirt” is printing good quality T-shirts and selling via Internet. There are many designers who use Spreadshirt for there products. One of these guys has started “Verteflamme’s”. He made some designs with velomobiles and recumbent-trikes! So now you can order your own velomobile T-shirt.  Of coarse I like the red Quest design most of all…

  • a ride with Zilt.

    I was touring with Zilt through Zeeland.

  • new cleat set

    My cleats were worn after 7 years of use. I use them every day and relatively do a lot of walking. The cleats make easy contact with the ground because the rubber sole of my Shimano shoes is not thick enough to prevent it.

  • magazines for cyclists

    The postman delivered the two best cycling magazines I know. By coincidence on the same day (2 Jan 2008) ; must be an omen for a good cycling year ! So no cycling today; just a strong cup of coffee,  make myself comfortable on the couch and a lot of reading…….. magazines for cyclists, originally…

  • “oliebollen”-tour

    Now my ODO is 2611 kilometers since 25 October. I cycled 552 kilometers during the last 3 days due to my presence at the “oliebollentocht”. On my way to the Veluwe (about 220 km) I had two flat tyres and some trouble with the chain. I stayed two nights with family in Achterveld, about 20…

  • Sparta Ithaka

    Marjan made a decision…….She bought a Sparta Ithaka . She used the “National Bicycle Plan“. With the national bicycle plan you can buy via your employer a complete bicycle with insurance and by doing so, have tax advantage. You pay back with gross salary (or holiday pay, overtime etc.) to your employer. Because you pay…

  • recumbent cycling in store !

    Jonathan is one of the ultimate recumbent promoters in the US. He sees himself as a “stand-up of recumbents”. He already made a lot of videos and is improving the quality continuous. In this video he is testing his new helmet-camera, a Kodak V 705. He also shows the same trouble I have with my…

  • Dutch infrastructure for cyclists.

    People who are curious to see how the dutch infrastructure for bicycle-paths looks like, can have a look at this video. The video is 25 minutes long. In the video you see all different kinds of roads and cycling paths situated in the northern part of the Netherlands (Groningen). Some recumbent-riders have formed an email-group…

  • Big at the front !

    Recumbent riders are stubborn, self-opinionated cyclists. They often do their own thing and don’t give sh.t what others think about it. In this video there is such a guy who returns to the design of the ancient high-bi and shows that he made a practical easy-to-use recumbent out of it.

  • recumbent trike for disabled

    A disabled young woman uses a recumbent in this video…………. She shows that a recumbent trike doesn’t present difficulties when you’re wearing a snow white long dress……….. 😉 She is Roos Prommenschenckel and has Torticollis Spasmodica, a rare disease which results in a wrong operation of the muscles in her neck; therefore she is not…

  • interview

    This morning I was interviewed by the “communication officer” of my employer. It was for a larger article in our company info magazine. The article is about employees who commute by bicycle. A few photos with my Quest were taken and I gave her a print-out of a few flyer’s that I found on the…

  • bicycle video competition

    Shimano/YouTube comp: the shortlist The Quickrelease.tv bicycle short video competition had a whopping 134 entries by the close of play on August 30th. These 134 have been whittled down to nine. The finalists will be judged at Interbike by Tour de France TV commentators Phil Liggett and Bob Roll. This one is the winner for…

  • bike tour around Los Angeles

    Take a bike tour along several trails around Los Angeles with Jonathan Dietch on his Bachetta recumbent.

  • recumbent races in Groningen

    Nice videos ! because I plan to ride the “oliebollentocht” on 28 December , I’ll add this video for a good impression of the ride which is being held in the coldest part of the year (typical quest-conditions)

  • maiden trip from Dronten to Vlissingen

    I ordered a Quest at velomobiel.nl and found out that I was supposed to wait for three years according to the order-list. Luckily it took only two years in practice, because many buyers order their second, third or more quests for a certain year. So when velomobiel.nl cleaned up their order-list it showed mine to…