Recent content by Herrsprocket

Hello Richard! What an amazing surprise to see your name on this forum. A clue,,,,, you still have the Bat bike recumbent? :) Wish I had read this thread as it was happening, I would have liked to have had the opportunity to catch up with you when you were in Portland last week. I live in...

Sorry to have missed some (most, all) of you that attended. Myself and a friend went on Saturday, where we spent 4 hours talking to vendors and trying out several ebikes. I was surprised by the sheer number of models of ebikes there and that were available to test. I honestly can't say I was...

Should be entertaining. My, how the ebike market has grown and matured in the last few years. See you there. Tomas

The fact is, we ALREADY pay for our privilege to be a legal presence on the road. We subsidize motor vehicles with our disproportionate amount of taxes paid to the amount of road damage that is incurred by our bicycles. Bicycles, on average (according to several sources, including DOT...

Hi folks, It may be that the fork is actually intended to go that way, or they put the handlebars and the fork on wrong. Just say'n. A long time ago (about 30 years ago), I noticed an old picture of a recumbent rider riding the Charles Mochet two wheeled version of the velocar and in the...

Way to go Mike and all the other attendees! Nice job on the weather too! Tom

Yeah, insurance companies. They play a lot of games at the expense of the public. The city does own the speedway dnmun. They don't, unfortunately control the insurance for the track, another party does. And they are somewhat not too keenly interested in our "little" event. And the risk of...

The electric assist event in the Human Power Challenge has been cancelled. Due to late responses from the previous insurers informing us of a more than double of the fees involved in having the event, we were forced to delete the event. We tried.

The Human Power Challenge is held annually in Portland Oregon on Memorial Day weekend, this year those dates are May 23rd and 24th. This is our 16th annual Human Power Challenge and this year we are trying something new! In addition to our standard races that we have for our recumbent bicycles...

Were you riding a regular bike or an e-assist type? Tom

Hi, You can get the Sapim stuff at Bike Tools Etc: http://www.biketoolsetc.com/ .

Hey SM, Well, bummer. I had two BPMII's, code 10's, 36V 500 watters, all laced up in Alex DA 16 rims (double walled), using Sapim double butted spokes and Sapim polyax nipples. They were in the for sale section. Both are gone as of a couple of weeks ago. Wish I could have helped you with an...

Hey, nice find Dennis. I bet LFP would have some interesting input on this racing venue, as well as the industrial and cultural overtones. Tomas

You can bet that Boeing has got an economical eye on this venture. Nothing like sharing intra state business deals with helpful friends at the State. It's good for Washington. Moses Lake does have (or did have) other related aviation high tech industry in the near local area. There is an Air...

John, you talk about hoarding stuff. I drew up my first recumbent electric assist trike back in 1984, and bought a Tecumseh riding lawnmower rear differential to use as my drive to the back end. I had that thing "waiting" in the garage for over 20 years before I put it together. It looks just...