Wim Harwig

Categorie: cycling

  • cycling in the Netherlands

    ” cycling in the Netherlands” is a pdf-file with lots of info about cycling in the Netherlands. It is a simple but sometimes patriotic brochure about the situation in the Netherlands.

  • The war against air !

    Tanya Markham explaines the war against air, when riding a velomobile.

  • mudguard

    When I am on my recumbent, this 20 inch wheel is right between my legs. In fact just in front of my chimes 😉 So when the surface of the road is wet, the front tyre swings a lot of fine moisture just in front of me. So all the road-surface-stuff (from plain water to soaked horse-shit), covers…

  • Road safety in the Netherlands.

    The latest statistics can be found here .

  • “Coasting”

    Thanks to ” recumbent cyclist ” , I read about the new strategy of the Shimano- company. Shimano is going to invest lots and lots of money to get all car-driving Rednecks on a bike. Therefore they need a bike which can be used without technical knowledge. So a “new” type of bicycle is going to be promoted and…

  • Xtra cycle

    While having a flu, I stayed in my bed  for a good sweat and a lot of coughing. Between those bed-scenes, I read some other blogs on the Internet. I found one which is called : bikes? rubbish! It is actually a bicycle-blog with very high quality-photos. I am glad to see that there are people like Derek and Sara living…

  • Video

    Saturday March 31- 2007 we had a ride on our bicycles around the “Oosterschelde” in the Netherlands. It was a bright sunny and windy day. We met at Simon’s house in Heinkenszand. He planned a route of about 90 kilometers long. After the ride Simon stood us a Heineken in Heinekenszand 😉 When I got…

  • a ride in nice sunny weather

    Today a colleague a mine organised a ride around the Oosterschelde. I made a simple video during most of the day. Just have to add some music, upload it somewhere and then I can show it on this blog. Maybe tomorrow !  a ride in nice sunny weather, originally uploaded by wim harwig.

  • Liegeräder or recumbents

    A nice video of recumbents going downhill in Winterberg (Germany).

  • Cycle Vision 2 and 3 June 2007 in Amsterdam !

      http://www.ligfiets.net/agenda/evenement.php3?id1=1841#english 2 and 3 June 2007 Cycle Vision will be located at the Amsterdam Velodrome ! All photos I took in 2006 you can find here.

  • How not to get hit by cars !

    I saw this internet site a long time ago. Despite the fact that I live in the Netherlands, where there are lots and lots of bicycle paths, I think that the info on this site can’t be read too much ! Therefore I added it to my blogroll. This is a must read site too !

  • Lots and lots of videos with recumbents !

    YouTube has an area where members can join “Groups” (it’s free) to share videos with other group members . There is also a recumbent group ! If you have videos made while riding your recumbent, please upload them to YouTube and share them inside this group. If you just like to have a view, this…

  • bidon holder

    I bought this bidon holder at Bever Zwerfsport. It is suitable to hold the 1,5 liter bottles. Now I just have to find the best place to mount it on my bike. It’s called the “Minoura PET picker” (AB-1500) specially disigned for the 1 and 1,5 liter lemonade bottles. So I can use a cheap PET…

  • cycle sideways ?

    There is always a guy in some shed who tries to invent the wheel again and from that startingpoint also creates a whole new bicycle ! I think it is just nice to see this bicycle and trying to find out how it works. See for yourself on the BBC news  on this link ! Don’t say…

  • here comes the sun

    I worked in the nightshift and was commuting home in the early morning on my recumbent. The sunrise was beautifull and made clear that wintertime was ending. Days are getting longer from now on. During that hour it takes me to get home, the sky turns from dark to bright. I had my camera with…