Matthias sets a new 6h world record with his Snoek from velomobiel.nl. Beside the perfect aerodynamic of his velomobile the tailor made Schwalbe tires played a key role of his success. More Information and Pictures on droplimits.de
Hans has finished the first prototype of the new record bike. So Ellen was able to do the first test run on the DEKRA test oval during the record attempt of Nici. It turned out, that the camera Quality was not good enough. After installing a new camera a second test run was done on […]
This year like previous year the Speed week organized by WHPSC at Battle Mountain has been cancelled. As a reaction the team Policumbent (Lucrezia) organized in the weekend of 23 and 24 Oktober the European speedbattle. It took place in Italy on the circuit Stellantis Proving Ground at Balocco.Four teams have been invited. A French team, An […]
The fairing including the new cutting line is ready. Addtionally Hans prepared a tailor made rear hub. Here some impressions:
Hans and Ellen has finished the first half of the bike. The weight is about 5 kg and super stiff. The high stiffness is due to in total four layers of carbon and a core media. As shown on the pictures below, they worked with vacuum infusion during hardening.
Ellen and Hans worked on our new bike. They could finish the mold for the outer shell. Beside this big step forward Hans also started to build the fork for the front wheel. As you can see not so easy to put all carbon layers in the right place.
Dez 2020: We are also suffering from the corona pandamic, but finally we started to build the moulds for the new bike. Here some impressions…
After finding a good position for Ellen in the new bike, also Matthias tested how he can fit into the bike. Due to the fact, that the bike a about 10 cm longer than the old one, there were more or less no problems to find a good position. But one the other hand the bike is […]
Yes, she does fit in. It suits well, just like a second skin. There is not much space left and only 20 inch wheels will fit into this super small bike.
Here some more impressions of how the new bike is built up. Next steps for march: smoothing surface painting possitive mold