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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Bicycle Machines


Pedal-powered machines


Bicycle Machines

Pedal Plow

Pedal Power isn't just good for going places.  You can grind corn, light your workspace, wash clothes, and mix cement with bicycle machines.  We don't have any of our own photos of this, but check out the YouTube videos from David Butcher, who builds pedal-powered generators that can run a chain-saw or a television -- or perhaps a toy train:

Or go to this discussion of a generator for a bicycle.  

Maya Pedal builds bicycle-powered machines (bicimaquinas) for use in areas without electricity.  Water pumps, blenders, metal sharpeners, nut shellers, and wood-saws are among their products or prototypes.  

Another nut-sheller, with illustrated building instructions, is found on the Instructables website.

The Jhai Foundation brings pedal-powered computing and internet-based communications to remote villages.  

A popular website showing a pedal-powered washing machine has generated a lot of interest on the web.  

Other machines, such as a drill press, sander, blender, grinder, and saws are illustrated, sometimes with plans available.  

Finally --- there is an excellent collection of links at www.green-trust.org, which covers even more than I was able to find on my own.

Pedal-powered machines are not new:

The American Precision website shows a pedal-powered lathe, and there is information on patents and an antique catalogue of pedal-powered machinery on Richard Van Vleck's page.  


Mary Arneson


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