Velomobiling Guide

The Velomobiling site Gallery features Velomobile Albums including Aerorider, Alligt Alleweder, Aurora, Berkut, Birk Butterfly, Cab-Bike, C-Alleweder, Flevo Alleweder (FAW), Go-one, Leiba, Leitra, Limit, Mango, Quest, Sunrider, Versatile, and WAW, with a miscellaneous album for limited-edition and home-built velomobiles, including La Fleche. "Building a Velomobile" showcases velomobile construction projects. Velomobile Circus celebrates wild and colorful velomobile designs.

The quick velomobile overview page is up again in English en in het nederlands.

They're still incomplete, but the Velomobile Comparison Tables are far enough along to mention here.

We've assembled some links to 2-person velomobiles, 2-wheel velomobiles, tandem recumbents, side-by-side and back-to-back tandem bikes and trikes. Whether you want two-person, two-wheel, multi-rider, or some other variation on the human-powered vehicle, we've tried to include it.

From any page on the site, just click the header photo of the velomobile in the tulips to return to the home page. On the "book" pages, it looks like this:

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Original site

The original Velomobiling.net site will be closed down and merged with this site some time in 2007. (If that link brings you back here, it's already happened). We are creating archives of the articles and "blocks." Velomobile information, articles, event announcements, and links related to human-powered vehicles will be appearing on this Drupal version of the velomobiling site.

For articles and reviews on velomobiles, velomobile-building, and velomobiling (in English and Dutch), from the original site see the Archives list. paginas in het nederlands

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Brommobiel

Brommobiel What's that tiny car?

In Europe, small cars with a maximum speed of 45 kilometers/hour (about 28 mph) are used for commuting and in cities.  They don't require a driver's license, and they are allowed into some car-free zones.  

These tiny vehicles fit into small parking spots.  Many of them are set up to be operated from a wheelchair that enters via a ramp in the rear.  

They are used by people who are disabled, are too young to drive, have lost their licenses, or who want to avoid the high costs of a regular car.

To the right is a Canta, found in the Netherlands.

Canta
Three-wheeled truck
We saw this little 3-wheeled truck in Spain...		 3-wheeled delivery van
...and this very similar one in Austria.  
Electric vehicle This electric vehicle (a Gizmo) is one of a fleet driven by Galactic Pizza's delivery superheros in Minneapolis.  "Neighborhood Electric Vehicles" traveling at 25 mph or less are increasingly being allowed on the streets in the U.S.  
The Twike, a small 2-person Swiss/German car that is available in either a pedal/electric or an all-electric version, has recently been allowed to be sold in the U.S. and was offered in the 2006 Neiman-Marcus Christmas Catalog.     Twike
Aerorider The Aerorider is a single-person vehicle that combines pedal and electric propulsion.  In the transportation matrix, velomobiles are followed by electric-assist velomobiles, then the pedal-electric hybrid Aerorider, then the pedal-assisted electric Twike, the all-electric Twike, and on into the cars.  
Going the other way, the "smart" is a car small enough to park nose-in along the street.  This one is also a "car-sharing" vehicle, allowing drivers to enjoy the advantages of driving a car without all of the expenses and inconveniences of owning one.  

Visit Bruce Weiner's Micro Car Museum on-line or in person to see the world's greatest collection of tiny cars.

Smart Car

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