Wim Harwig

Categorie: velomobile

  • Oliebollentocht

    It’s such a pity I couldn’t be there, but I’m glad there is Internet ; You can find a RTV Utrecht item here. And a photo of the group is made by Rood petje A video made by lefruitdefendu A video from Beekie

  • bicycle porn !

    I ordered some new replacement parts for my velomobile. Velomobiel.nl sent it from Dronten and two working-days later I recieved the package ! No strange questions, no advertisement-talk to sell other stuff, no wrong sizes, no other materials …………. and much cheaper than the bike shop in my neighbourhood ! I threw this silver TREASURE…

  • Oliebollentocht 2009

    There are just a few days left before the “oliebollentocht” will be organised in Utrecht. There will be more than 100 participants this year ! Unfortunately I can’t be there, because I have to work. But just for fun I collected a few videos, to give an impression.  I had uploaded two videos of my…

  • Stupid

    I’ve been stupid ! Two weeks ago I found out that the 11 and 12 teeth sprockets of my cassette needed to be renewed. But I was not able to find any bike shop where they just had the small sprockets with 11 and 12 teeth. There was only a small shop who had a complete cassette…

  • Just in time …

    I changed a few wheels on my sprocket today, and while doing that ……….. I discovered that the inner cable was still working with only ONE tread !!!!! So, just in time ……  pfew !

  • 11T

    My Quest has done 22.600 kilometers. My derailleur wasn’t working quite well. So I took a look …… Because my commute contains long and flat bicycle paths and my leg-rhythm is about 60 per minute, I use the smallest sprocket wheel during 95 % of the ride. I had to visit a few bikeshops in…

  • commuting

    Yesterday I tried to get home between the rainshowers ……….. .

  • Marathon plus

    The blue coloured “anti-flat” stuff came peeping through, so I decided to buy a new set for my front wheels. They did 10,000 kilometers and since a marathon is 42 km, the “plus” must be standing for about 19,958 kilometers 😉 Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres are made in Indonesia; so must be good stuff, because…

  • a ride through Zeeland

  • bluevelo

    It’s nice to see how the first North American Quest are being build by bluevelo. See ;  http://www.bluevelo.com/BUILDING_A_QUEST.html All info about why and how is in news-item http://www.velomobiel.nl/nieuws/#item21 at http://www.velomobiel.nl/ . Unfortunately only in Dutch .

  • Jes birthday party BBQ

    We had a BBQ-party. Jes had her birthday. One of the guys wanted to make a short ride with my Quest.  I thought it would be OK.  But in the last corner he didn’t follow the ideal line and tumbled on it’s right side. He was frightened a lot and was worried for any damage.…

  • 20.000 kilometers !

    My Quest passed 20.000 km since 25 October 2007. I think I’m an experienced velomobilist now ……   It took me a lot of kilometers, scratches and even a crash-accident with a car. But thanks to the Quest my physical condition is better and my commute is a lot more comfortable !

  • inside information ….

    There was a request to give some views of the Quest’s inside. Well, I made a short video. That’s how people give info these days 😉 You can see that I bought two velomobile-bags. I use them for only 2 days now, but nevertheless I am already impressed by the perfect design. They fit perfectly…

  • Cycle Vision 2009

    Some hate velomobiles …… Cycle Vision 2009, originally uploaded by wim harwig.

  • Cycle Vision !

    I went to Tilburg to visit Cycle Vision. I visited a lecture given by Daniël N Lang, about his 40.000 kilometers cycling trip around the world ! I was glad he is alive and kicking. I will upload some more photos to my Flickr-page soon. I didn’t see the new model made by velomobile.nl ;…