When I first saw these videos, I had to laugh ! They show the british bicycle culture as it was way back in 1955. If you’re too old to die young, then you’ll go back in memory when seeing these two vid’s ………
Dave Zabriski out of the Giro Italia !
I like Zabriski just for the fact he wears a mustache ! He fell during the second day in the Giro and had to be treated in a hospital. Hope he gets over it before the TdF starts …….
$4 per gallon
Gasoline in the USA is cheap compared to European prices, but it rises!
I had to remove the rear wheel
I had to remove the rear wheel of my quest, because I had to fix a hole in the wheel-chest. The hole was there because I had done too much stuff inside the quest, therefore the wheelchest was pushing against the bolt of the axle. The soft synthetic material wears out immediately and I hope that a smal aluminium plate will prevent it the next time.
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Fallus symbol
Someone said I was in my fallus-symbol, when he saw me waiting in my velomobile for the red traffic light. 
couch surfers !
We hosted three Belgian couch surfers last week-end.
new brake pad
I had to renew the brake pads. It was necessary !
Left the new and right the old one ……
There was this wonderful engine that came out of a Citoën HY …..
We’ve got him ! (or her ?)
This mouse has lived for a few weeks in our shed, garden, camper and several other places we don’t like him/her to be ….
My daughters forbade me to use a mouse-trap that would kill ……… so I bought this one.
Now I will have to free him/her in a far away forest.
parachute for Quest ?
Can anyone help me to find this parachute ? The Nike-store says they are out of stock 
So maybe it’s better to make a few myself ……
It is mentioned in the blog of Coachlevi . I think this parachute is better centered behind my quest then the home-made ones you can see in the next video. These are invented and made by Allert Jacobs.
Because a Quest velomobile uses drumbrakes which are inside the fairring, the cooling is not enough to slow down from 100 km/h to zero when going downhill. Therefore it is better to use parachutes, to prevent higher speeds than 60 km/h. In case of emergency the drumbrakes will be able to handle that amount of heat (I hope).
New video of LYN !!!!
Tish send me this link of their newest video. It was made during a live performance on 20 March 2008.
“The road that lies ahead”.
I think that it is a very long road that lies ahead …….. But all great travellers started with just one “first step”.
23 seconds !
Only for standard sized bicycles ….. What to do with a recumbent ?
Rob does it again !
Rob is continuing his world-tour of records …. Again he starts a new episode with a new method of travelling .
Wind farm of 4000 MW
T. Boone Pickens is going to invest in a wind farm that will produce 4000 Mega Watts ! Guys like this are giving the U.S. a very fast jump ahead in renewable sources, compared to Europe.
I think this old man is wise …… The price of electricity in the future will be coupled to the cost of solar-powered energy. By that time he can sell his cheaper wind-powered electricity with a good price !
Unless of course, the costs of solar energy will fall because of new inventions or innovations. More about peak-oil here.
Guerrilla movement coming to the Netherlands !
Guerrilla gardeners are coming to the Netherlands, see their blog
Their activities are explained in this short video ;
Kwets
Hayco renamed his Quest into Kwets and is able to do some acrobatic tricks with his velomobile ……….
why be a vegetarian ?
see this video
http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp
