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The last I heard Aerovelo made 89.59mph. The speeds I was referring to were what were accomplished at the 1980 event.

As I recall the Univ of Delaware “Laminar 448” topped out at 58 +/- mph. The USC/General Dynamics team ran a two-person (pedaling sitting back to back) called the “Vector” that you can see in the video I linked, with a sleek polycarbonate shell. They were the top speed that year at 62.9mph !!

Human Powered Vehicle 1980

With guidance from myself and my chief mechanics at the bike shop I owned they built the frame and mounted the components. We built the wheels for them, as they were mostly book-learned engineers and not very mechanically-adept. That’s the main reason I went with them: to provide the practical...

Sad about Iohan. Apparently he suffered severe insomnia related to Sleep Apnea. Watched some of his videos.

I have a friend in Berlin; last time I rode with him we did about an 80km jaunt all around Potsdam and Berlin followed the routes he usually takes tourists on for his summer 'history tours' (He is a social studies/history teacher during the school year). At about 50km his eBike was running low...

Being on a bike is the closest thing I feel to being free. Little noise, no fuel tank (other than my stamina and endurance) and just free to feel the air passing by, and going off to explore. The first American Eagle I saw on the east coast was under Rod Brice, who when he got out of the service...

Nice Paul!! How long are you there for? What area are you in? Need a contact for real estate?

The World Traveler was a nice all-around bike. That was the "Kool Lemon" color, cost $113.95 back in 1973. A later bike that Schwinn developed out of that was the World Voyageur, with a 4130 Cro-Moly frame, relaxed parallel angle frame, triple chainwheel aluminum crankset, and took a loaded set...

Welcome Howard. This morning I was just walking down the street to place a throwline in a neighbor's, mostly-dead, hollow maple in preparation for pulling it over. Two cyclists came rolling down the street, and one yelled my name. They turned around, and it was a prior customer of mine (I went...

That's a nice Bianchi! Our youngest daughter has a Celeste-colored, classic Bianchi. I rode an old steel Trek 520 across the country. After doing pro-bono hospice support for the mother of the friend I started cycling with when Iwas 11 years old, he sent me a Blue Competition Cycle's NX-7 as a...

I ride to the farmers market on Sunday, and some errands around town. But I really have not done any distance since the cross country trip in 2007... embarrassing! We ought to organize a GTG/Bike Trip...