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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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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Velomobile Visibility

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Introduction - Road Test - Visibility - Gearing and Hills - Practicality - Maintenance & Accident Record - Production & "Commercials"


Visibility Versatile Mango Quest velomobile WAW velomobile Cab-Bike velomobile
Lighting - Is lighting 'future proof'? Yes - lights mounted on bar shining through front window allow any choice of lighting units New Mangos have lights mounted on bar shining through front 'window' New Quests have lights mounted on bar shining through front 'window' Yes - lights mounted on bar shining through front window allow any type of lighting to be fitted. The tested example had many lights
Would LED main front be possible (steady and flash)? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Is it possible to have second front light(s) elsewhere (e.g. on mirror)? No, but not required Yes, if required Yes, if required No, but not required
Rear: Is it possible to fit a cluster of powerful LED lights? (forgot to ask) Yes - plenty of space to bolt on all manner of lighting Yes - plenty of space to bolt on all manner of lighting Yes Yes
Other aids Versatile Mango Quest WAW Cab-Bike
Horn/Bell - Is one fitted? Yes - electric horn Yes 'ping' type bell Yes 'ping' type bell No --- (ping type bell is standard on new Cab-Bikes)
Flag - Is one fitted?
What drag is estimated from small flag?
Mast, flag or towing bracket possible behind rider's head
Indicating Direction to other road users. Versatile Mango Quest velomobile WAW velomobile Cab-Bike velomobile
Is indicating by hand possible? Yes Yes Yes Yes - this is easy (without 'head-in' option) Yes - through openings in side windows
Are indicators fitted? yes - operated by buttons Optionally - four very small indicators should not disturb the airflow appreciably Optionally - four very small indicators should not disturb the airflow appreciably No Yes - the tested example has very large powerful indicators.  May increase drag: indicators are really massive


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