Wim Harwig

Categorie: velomobile

  • busy all day

    While the Lady of the House was busy restoring lamp shades…………. I was busy with my bikes, because I recieved the aliminium box and honey board for the Bullitt. And I also decided to install the new Jag Wire cables for the drumbrakes in my Quest. I ordered the cables together with 15 spokes by…

  • cv 2010

    Hello good readers who just keep on reading this blog; I went to Sloten, near Amsterdam. Cycle Vision was organised at the Velodrome in Sloten. It was an excellent day to stay at the beach, not for racing in a velodrome. Because there were no races in the open air after noon, I decided to…

  • Cycle Vision

    Hello good readers who read this blog, I’ll visit Cycle Vision tomorrow. It’s all happening in Sloten, near Amsterdam. A sneak preview ; A couple of years ago (2007) I myself made a video during Cycle Vision. It’s had more than 50.000 viewers !

  • Ride with GPS

    Just a nice tool to play with when you have a GPS;   Ridewithgps.com click on the image for my first upload.….. And you can find my commute here .

  • Bicycle Speed & Power Calculator

    David Hembrow did something great ! He renewed and updated the Kreuzotter calculator. You can find it here.

  • video Easter-meeting

    I edited a 10 minute video of the “Easter-meeting”.  The first 5 minutes is an impression of the route I took to get there, because it is an important aspect of the phenomenon “paastreffen” for me.

  • Easter-meeting 2010

    Hello, good people who read this blog ! Last weekend I went to the Easter-meeting for recumbents at Camping Harskamperdennen. It was a 230 km. ride on Friday with lots of clouds, but no rain. On Sunday I had several rain-showers on the same route back home. For people with GPS who are curious what…

  • reflections

    I had trouble with reflections on the screen of my GPS. The light body-colour of my Quest gave a disturbing reflection. My wife advised me to iron some black material on the body. The same material she uses as a lining for the clothes she sews. It’s called “vlies” in Dutch. So I took some…

  • weight ?

    My velomobile had trouble with winter-obesity. Because temperatures are rising, I took all the winter-stuff out. 2 pair of gloves, caps, sweaters, etcetera. Now it’s about 3 kilo’s lighter and what I like even more ……. I have much more freedom of movement for my elbows !

  • maintenance work on the brakes

    I had to do some maintenance work because one of the brakes on my Quest velomobile was not set free again after use. I hoped they would keep working properly till Spring, but unfortunately I had to do some service earlier. I found out that two of the spokes were broken , so I renewed…

  • 450 t

    It took a long time, but I own a new GPS now. I choose for the Oregon 450t, a new model made by Garmin. together with the City Navigator Europe NT and the Routable Topographical Map Benelux. The Garmin manuals are bad, very bad. They remind me of the days I was too young to…

  • Goofy

    I own a car as well as a velomobile and the effect of a “wheeler” is happening in both……. I can understand why “Mister Walkers” don’t like “Mister Wheelers”, because I’m a “Mister Walker” too. I experience this “schizophrenic” alteration every day when I use my velomobile. Maybe the difference between “Mister Cyclist” and “Mister…

  • cyclocomputer

    The thin cable for my cyclocomputer touched the tyre and because of that, the signal to the computer interrupted. I tried to fix it and used another cable, but without success. So I made a phone-call to velomobiel.nl ; they advised me to buy a new cable. The hole in the wheelbox is 8 mm…

  • The solution is not the problem !

    Now there’s no problem anymore with the drive-train in my velomobile. I ordered a new chain, cassette, and freewheel and Ymte did as usual; it was here two days later! I renewed all the things as soon as the weather allowed me to. And since then I had no problems at all. So when I…

  • Happy New Year

    Gaston made this photo just a moment ago. I’ve got problems with all the white light reflecting in the snow. It’s one of the triggers for a strong migraine . So I always use sunglasses when there is snow. Normally I’m very content with the Serengeti sunglasses that I use for a few years now.…