The Recumbent Bicycle and Human Powered Vehicle Information Cent My motivation for this project started long ago. I built a Tadpole trike some years back, and I made a full fairing for it with coroplast. It had several problems that kept me from riding it. 1) Since the frame is fixed you can't lean it into a corner. This means you lose speed, eat tires off the front, and you have to have a very wide track to keep all the wheels on the ground in a turn. Please, people with tadpole trikes. O.K. with all the drawbacks of the tadpole trike above the vehicle was disassembled and the remains are still hanging in my garage. Last fall I was surfing the web and came across a web site that featured tilting three wheelers.
Cabine13.com Invention success story: KtraK Which solution method fits your innovation model? [LEARN MORE] Breakthrough: A traction-boosting rear drive assembly that turns a mountain bike into an all terrain vehicle. Inventor: Kyle Reeves, Canada Financial reward: $1 million+ The Story: Adrenalin junkies now have a new toy to play with. Cool Idea Ktrak is a patented wheel system that turns a mountain bike into a pedal-powered snow machine and all terrain vehicle. Eureka Moment The light bulb moment occurred in 2005 during a long ferry ride from Vancouver to Vancouver Island, where Reeves lives with his wife and children. The finished version is a piece of apparatus that attaches to a standard mountain bike – it fits a 26-inch wheel, with 20” and 24” kits coming soon. Financial Burden Reeves took out a second mortgage on his home, and with his business partner and childhood friend Jason Scoffings, has invested no less than $700,000 to get the invention into stores. Entering the Dragons’ Lair No Business Like Snow Business
Software y Oportunidad MLM - Y Oportunidad de Trabajo desde tu PC Easy Racers Recumbent Bicycles | Home Blog | Velocult | Portland Bike Shop, Bar, Cafe, Cultural Hub | Page 3 Cycles J Bryant – Ryan’s 650b Randonneuse Joshua recently completed his first frame built at Velo Cult for Velo Cult customer Ryan. “Ryan came to me when I offered a batch production, semi-custom randonneuse. Introducing the Velo Cult Framebuilding Studio: Cycles J Bryant This has been in our plans for quite some time but finally we pulled it off. Velo Cult Live Music: Hang The Old Year, U sco, Oker, Gaime It was a warm night in the shop, but the live music was pumping. Happy 4th of July from Velo Cult Enjoy these patriotic bicycles! Treo Ranch I just got back from a trip to TREO Ranch just outside of the Hardman Oregon living ghost town. Nelson Vails Visits Velo Cult Last week Olympian and Cycling Hall of Fame inductee Nelson Vails came by the shop to tell his story and do a Q&A with our customers. Portland Afoot Starting and Ending at Velo Cult, the 60+ teams of two or more are taking advantage of public transit options like the bus, MAX, and Streetcar but Continue reading “Portland Afoot” »
Does Google Need to Create a Currency? While many critics have been quick to write off Google+ as a failed social experiment by what has been and inevitably always will be a search company, Google itself continues to deepen the integration of its varied products into the platform without paying these critics much heed. Operating on the same ‘release and iterate’ strategy that drove products such as Android and Chrome to become market leaders after initially underwhelming, Google knows that its social ecosystem may only be one killer application away from mass adoption. A Google currency that powers micropayments may just be the killer app, as such an offering could revolutionize the Internet by democratizing online commerce. Why is now the right time for a revolution in commerce? Though Google, Paypal, Facebook, Amazon and Apple have invested heavily in their efforts to become the trusted party users rely on to manage their transactions, online commerce has not ceased to be awkward and time-consuming.
CF_Bike_home My DIY Carbon Fiber Recumbent Bike Odyssey by Mark Rehorst Update October 2006 - DISASTER STRIKES! Ever since I first saw a recumbent bike (either an article in Scientific American magazine on human powered vehicles, or a TV show with a segment on HPV races) I wanted one. That was almost 30 years ago. I built the Hypercycle with a 26" rear wheel and very high pressure tire. Here it is now! That 75 mile ride felt like walking up stairs. Here's my niece, Jenna, on the Hypercycle in 2004, 20 years after I built it. seen riding around Milwaukee on it. Fast forward to 2004, and there are lots of recumbent bikes available, but now that I can afford one, I am too cheap to buy one. My experience with the Hypercycle helped me decide what I wanted in a bike. The final list of desired features looked like this: Desired features and reasons: After a lot of reading at web sites and some trips to the library, I decided that carbon fiber composite was the way to go. Frame Design Steering - What handlebars?
El modelo escandinavo de bienestar ¿Puede un sistema capitalista hacer gala de un sistema de prestaciones sociales generoso? ¿Puede una sociedad rica aplicar el principio de igualdad? ¿Puede prosperar el colectivismo donde rige el individualismo? Pues sí. ¿Qué hacen los países nórdicos para ir (casi) siempre por delante? El modelo escandinavo de bienestar es un término utilizado para describir la forma que Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia, Finlandia e Islandia han escogido para financiar y organizar sus sistemas de seguridad social, servicios de salud y educación. Diez investigadores nórdicos han analizado la cuestión en un estudio reciente, financiado por el Consejo de Investigación de Noruega. Los investigadores analizaron la riqueza y la igualdad características de los países nórdicos (Dinamarca, Finlandia, Noruega, Suecia e Islandia). ¿Qué caracteriza al modelo social nórdico? Los países nórdicos mantienen un equilibrio entre el colectivismo generalizado y un alto grado de libertad individual.