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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · 5d

A few photos from today's ride around the countryside. It was an extra ride as @TheoZw found we both had time and the weather was so nice.
#velomobile #drenthe #cycling #biketooter #regel17

Bicycle Road - Fietsstraat. The sign tells drivers that they are guests on this bicycle road. This one is not in a city but in the countryside. I'm not entirely convinced that through roads in the countryside are really a suitable place for this arrangement, but it's not bad.

Further along on the bicycle road. We're going downhill a bit here. There are several locks on the canal to our left between Assen and Groningen, and each time we get to go downhill for a few metres and enjoy the extra speed that results.

A road mostly used by cyclists a bit further north. Racing cyclist coming in the opposite direction and two ships under construction in the distance are also visible.

As well as the nice concrete and asphalt cycle-paths we also went along a few narrow countryside paths with gravel surfaces, just for the novelty of it on a nice day. These do nothing for your average speed, of course, but that's not the point.

**Saukki** @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com · Mar 30

Mar 30

Saukki @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com

Quatrevelo #velomobile #regel17 #cycling #pyöräily #kinneri #quatrevelo

#quatrevelo

**Saukki** @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com · Mar 30

Mar 30

Saukki @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com

Summer tyres

#velomobile #regel17 #cycling #pyöräily #kinneri

#kinneri

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 27

Mar 27

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

A few more photos from last Sunday.
#regel17 #cycling #velomobile #biketooter

We swerve around horse excrement on the cycle-path. This is one of the reasons why they really should try to stick to their own paths (there are quite a lot of them).

Cycling past a garage selling fuel for cars. We're not buying.

A colourful apartment block in Groningen, next to a river and a cyclepath which we're going along.

My velomobile perfectly parked under a sign which says it's forbidden to park a bicycle here. The shop's closed and my bike is not in anyone's way, so I'm really not doing anyone any harm. These signs amuse me.

**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 27

Mar 27

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

A few photos from recent cycling trips through the countryside.
#regel17 #velomobile #cycling #biketooter #netherlands

Three velomobiles parked next to a sign which says that the maximum speed allowed is 4 km/h. We will definitely be exceeding that speed (it actually only applies to boats).

Cycling through the countryside towards a village on a cycle-path next to a main road. Coming towards us, two pensioners side by side on their bikes, followed by someone with an electric mobility scooter. There's plenty of space on a 4 m wide cyclepath for us as well going in the opposite direction.

In Zuidhorn there are a pair of life-sized statues of men and women reaching to the sky, on top of not quite vertical poles which are several meters tall. I don't know what they represent. My velomobile is parked in front of one of them.

My bike computer and a mobile phone pretending to be a calculator sitting on my bike this afternoon. My age in miles works out as 94.99 km. However I didn't quite stop in time for the photo, so the computer is displaying 95.00. After this I cycled back home.

**joerg** @joerg@machteburch.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

joerg @joerg@machteburch.social

Die erste km Runde mit dem #velomobile. GP5000 statt Marathon und 10° wärmer waren spürbar leichter.

Die Grundschule in der Burg Ummendorf.Coole Nutzungsidee

Ein Velomobil steht vor dem lost place Schloss Sommerschenburg.

Ein Velomobil bei der Gedenkstätte Marienborn an der Zollstation. Bitte öffnen sie die Motorhaube, Kofferraum und heben sie die hintere Sitzbank ab.

#regel17

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

And a few more photos on the way home.
Six hours and 42 minutes of cycling to cover 181 km. A nice day out.
#regel17 #velomobile #cycling #biketooter

Another German cycle-path. Much too narrow and bumpy. We stay on the road.

Crazy Dutch car addicts queuing to buy ever so slightly cheaper fuel for their cars from a German petrol station.

I don't understand the economics of Dutch drivers driving really quite long distances to buy ever so slightly cheaper German fuel for their cars. Is their time worth nothing ? Don't they burn off so much fuel on the trip that it's wipes out any savings ?

A sign telling us we're about to re-enter the Netherlands.

My last photo, on a really wonderful cycle-path as I enter Assen. Dharm (also from Assen) is visible in the rear view mirror. We'll both be back at our homes shortly. Just a few more km to go.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

Between towns in Germany there are cycle-paths which would seem like a dream to many in the world, but they're not really adequate, due to being narrow and having dreadful junction design, so we mostly rode on the road so we could keep up a decent speed (mostly above 35 km/h).
#regel17 #velomobile #cycling #biketooter

The narrow cycle-path is barely wide enough for two normal cyclists side by side. It's certainly not wide enough for bidirectional use, with our group going quite quickly in the other direction. Germany could do this MUCH better.

We did try the cycle-paths sometimes, but we'd soon catch up with people going slowly and have to either slow right down to pass very carefully or go back on the road again. This infrastructure isn't conducive to efficient cycling.

Back on the road. Friendly racer going in the other direction.

Overtaking a couple on the cyclepath without any problems because we're on the road. If we'd been on the cycle-path we'd have had to half our speed, ring our bells, hope they actually could hear us, wait for one of them to move aside etc. This infrastructure is not good enough. Luckily, the road is nice and wide and very well surfaced.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

A German town. The architecture is quite different from NL.
#cycling #velomobile #biketooter #regel17

Church tower ahead. It looks quite different from most Dutch churches. Also the bakery underneath it in the photo.

But this view could make you wonder: there's a windmill ahead. But this is Germany and we're not using that very narrow and bumpy cycle-path.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

We joined with a group of German cyclists just before the German border. So now there are eight of us in total.
#regel17 #cycling #biketooter #velomobile #radfahren

Paused at the point where we met the German cyclists. Several cyclists and several velomobiles (not all of them) in the photo.

Avoiding the German customs inspectors ! They seemed to have picked on someone in a car for some reason.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

Dutch street furniture
#regel17 #cycling #biketooter #velomobile #netherlands #streetfurniture

Sign near a school to remind people of the 30 km speed limit. It's a brightly coloured pole with a red hand on top.

For some reason there's half a bicycle permanently connected to a light pole on this street.

A "bridge", but not over water. It's just to look nice, I think.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

The "world's longest cycle bridge" is in Blauwestad. The worst thing about it is that it's almost a kilometre of horrible bumpy surface. The best thing about it is that when it comes to an end there's some nice smooth concrete to cycle on.
We like it so much that we used in in both directions...
#regel17 #cycling #biketooter #velomobile #blauwestad #pietersmitbrug

The start of the Pieter Smitbrug on the journey out. You can see the bumpy surface ahead.

Half way over. Some of the fillings in my teeth are still where they were earlier this morning.

Almost at the end. I can see concrete. Hooray !

On the return journey we're just about to go over the bridge again. It is quite long - you can see it stretching into the distance. I wish they'd done a better job of the bridge, though.

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**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9

Mar 9

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

The journey began quite early in the morning, I cycled to Rolde and joined @twilwel and two others.
#regel17 #velomobile #assenliggers #cycling #biketooter

Heading east out of Rolde, four velomobiles on a cycle-path beside a main road.

A nice bridge over a canal. We're going straight on, though, towards another group in Muntendam.

We had to overtake this annoying slow tractor on a minor road.

At one of the "comfort stops". A "solar generator" which makes diesel engine sounds and which seems to emit diesel fumes. Greenwash much ?

**David Hembrow** @hembrow@todon.eu · Mar 9 *

Mar 9 *

David Hembrow @hembrow@todon.eu

No Sunday ride today. Instead, a group of us cycled to Leer in Germany yesterday to go to the opening event of Velowerk Nord West - a new shop selling recumbent bicycles and velomobiles.
#regel17 #velomobile #velomobiel #biketooter #cycling #recumbent #leer #radfahren #assenliggers

A large group of cyclists outside Velowerk Nord West in Leer, lots of velomobiles and recumbent bicycles.

The three people who run the company posing for a photo

A view from inside of several recumbent bicycles and tricycles with people enjoying refreshments.

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**NUeB.net** @NUeB@mstdn.social · Mar 8

Mar 8

NUeB.net @NUeB@mstdn.social

@kevinrns
Yes. To be precise, it is a #Velomobile, see
https://nueb.net/VM/W9/

nueb.netNUeB.net

**Frostpendeln** @frostpendeln@mastodon.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

Frostpendeln @frostpendeln@mastodon.social

Hopp hopp - nur noch heute könnt ihr eure Kilometer aus der vergangenen #frostpendeln Saison auf der frostpendeln.de eintragen. Nach 23:59 Uhr ist Schluss!

Wir freuen uns auf ein tolles Endergebnis

@fedibikes @fedibikes_de #adfc #winterradeln #winterbiketoworkday #fahrrad #fahrradpendler #pedelec #spedelec #speedpedelecs #mdrza #mitdemradzurarbeit #stadtradeln #velomobile #velomobil #gravelbike #rennrad #biketowork

Blick aus Sicht eines Fahrradfahrenden auf einer Landstraße. Text: "Jetzt aber schnell! Frostpendeln-Kilometer noch eintragen bis 07. März - 23:59 Uhr"

**FolksVelo** @FolksVelo@mas.to · Mar 4

Mar 4

FolksVelo @FolksVelo@mas.to

We had an amazing time at SPEZI 2024.

Very happy to confirm that we'll be back for SPEZI 2025. So excited to see how much has changed in a year.

You too can come to perhaps the most important/best #velomobile & #cargobike event of the year. Tickets available at https://en.spezialradmesse.de/

#micromobility
#velomobiles
climate change is real and your transportation choices matter

**Saukki** @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com · Mar 3

Mar 3

Saukki @saukki@pxlfd.saukki.com

From yestarday’s #velomobile ride. It was a mistake to not wait for the snow plow. At the end of the ride the steering was starting to be difficult, because of all the slush and snow in the wheel well

#cycling #winter #wintercycling #pyöräily #kinneri #quatrevelo #talvipyöräily #regel17

#regel17

**Frostpendeln** @frostpendeln@mastodon.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

Frostpendeln @frostpendeln@mastodon.social

Mit der #frostpendeln Saison endet auch bald unsere Spendenaktion für "Kilometer für Kinder". Über 600€ sind hier bereits gesammelt worden geht da noch was bis Freitag?

Infos: frostpendeln.de/frostpendeln-spendenaktion-2024/

@fedibikes @fedibikes_de #adfc #winterradeln #winterbiketoworkday #fahrrad #fahrradpendler #pedelec #spedelec #speedpedelecs #mdrza #mitdemradzurarbeit #stadtradeln #velomobile #velomobil #gravelbike #rennrad #biketowork

**NUeB.net** @NUeB@mstdn.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

NUeB.net @NUeB@mstdn.social

#Velomobil Fahrer:innen aufgepasst!

Endlich sind die neuen #CLIK Ventile auch in Deutschland erhältlich. Ich habe mir einen Umrüstsatz plus ein paar Ventilkerne gekauft und getestet. Gerade bei den engen Platzverhältnissen am Velomobil sind die SCV Ventile ein Traum! Mehr Bilder und Bericht im Forum:
https://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/schwalbe-clik-valve-neues-ventilsystem.74039/page-21#post-1762291

Schwalbe CLIK (SCV) Ventil im Vorderrad meines Alpha W9 Velomobils

#Regel17 #velomobile #velomobiel

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