Wim Harwig

Category: velomobile

  • Tenax

    I used a Tenax mounting for my windscreen on the velomobile. It takes a few seconds to place or remove it :

  • windshield

    Once I saw a velomobile with a simple home-made windshield. The last few weeks there was lots of stormy winds during my commute. So I decided to make a windshield too. I bought a screen for a crash helmet with fixed visor (the ones which are used by motorcyclists), and adapted it for use in…

  • Shimano sandal with cleat

    Today I bought these sandals. I only heard positive things about these sandals in velomobiles by users.  So now I can find out myself….. I have thought of the simple idea to make something like Gary did…….. ……but when I realized that Rob Thomson already tested the Shimano sandels to the extreme on his travels…

  • new T-shirts

    Our new T-shirts ; When you’re on a recumbent, no one can see the text on the backside……..     So it will be clear that Marjan seldom uses her recumbent, while I use mine daily 😉

  • parler vous francais ?

    There is a nice blog made by this Velomobile enthousiast written in french. I can only read it using the google translation……… He is inspired by “peak oil” and is selling his second car because the velomobile is doing well in the French traffic ! His experience is interesting for me, because he uses his…

  • red rocket

    My neighbour took this photo when I showed him my Quest.  

  • T-shirt

    Just a few day’s waiting and the T-shirts were delivered…….. At first sight, the quality is good. I think it’s made with the same high standard as the stuff from LARGE . But we’ll see, time and a lot of washing will tell………. Cheap T-shirt prints usually perish inside the washing machine ; and when…

  • 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.

  • after 2800 kilometer

    I replaced the HPV tyre of my left front wheel. I was despondent of finding all the small stones and removing them from the soft rubber-surface. The problem of buying other, more protective tyres is not where or how to buy; but………. which tyres ? I’m still searching on all the velomobile blogs for other…

  • sunrider velomobile starts production !

    Sunrider has started their production-line. I think that it’s going to be a handy velomobile for use in crowded city-traffic, where manoeuvrability is more important than speed. See all details on their website………

  • “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…

  • Company magazine

    The magazine is called “Insight”, subtitled ; “The social community of Thermphos and her people”. In this edition there was an article that introduced the concept “Velomobile”. A few weeks earlier I had a short interview, during which I overhanded the well known velomobile- flyer’s. The article shows that the editor used the flyer-info largely.…

  • Quest

    Just a short video………

  • At work

    It’s not the most photogenic place of the factory-site where this photo-session took place, but what the heck…….my colleague isn’t a professional photographer. My new velomobile attracts attention, so lots of photos are being made and questions asked…………….. I mostly refer to this blog, but there isn’t much to see of my velomobile yet. So…