RECUMBENT BICYCLE
Rider: Dirk Henschel
Discipline: Recumbent race
Successes:
Overall winner of the European Championship in Lelystad /NL via the following 3 placings: European Championship in the hour long race
Second place European Championship in the 3 hour race
Second place European Championship in the 200m sprint with a flying start
This was obtained with the Rohloff SPEEDHUB 500/14 as drive component.
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Rider: Warren Beauchamp
Discipline: Recumbent race
Successes:
Builds diverse running recumbent bikes in America. Likewise very successful recumbent biker. Owner of some records.
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Rider: Jörg Weigl
Race: Word Solar Cycle Challange
Achievements:
Jörg Weigl equiped his solar powered reccumbent with the SPEEDHUB 500/14 for the Worl Solar Cycle Challenge in November 2001. He managed a first place in one section resulting in an overall 4th place. Above that the team achieved 2nd place in the reccumbent category.
How everything started:
Jörg is always inventing and drilling away in his basement at home. So it's no wonder that he built his first solar vehicle before the age of 11. Later he turned into a devoted cyclist. With the money he received fo rhis 18th bithday he bought himself hist first reccumbent. From then on e eated it above any other type of vehicle. The summer holidays were always taken with his reccumbent, once even from Ulm (Germany) to Turkey. After his compulory German service and before his studies to become a technical engineer the 3 months in between were just enough time to ride with his current reccumbent from Mexico city to Alaska.
How everything went on:
Next to bike riding was his desire to invent (that we spoke about earlier). He invented a bicycle dynamo to be mounted inside of a disk brake. It ran incredibly light and functioned reliably in all weather. This invention won him an award in the German competition "Jugend forscht" in 1999, a competition for talented youths.Unfortunately the dynamo is not (yet) available to purchase. The last project was the H2 Power Scooter. A demonstration of helium fuelled moter technic. With the Power Scooter you can experience the new helium technic.