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Sleek velomobiles and 50 riders begin cross country tour in Portland, OR

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    Velomobiles roll across US - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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    Velomobiles roll across US
    Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
    Velomobile riders were beating the best bicycle racers, so the French bicycle racing establishment outlawed the recumbents, he said. Daniel Fredrikson of Virginia is blunter. There's a lot of resistance to recumbents by the traditional bike crowd, ...




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    Cyclists pass through Meeker County on cross-country trip - Litchfield Independent Re

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    Cyclists pass through Meeker County on cross-country trip
    Litchfield Independent Review
    The alien-looking mode of transportation is called a velomobile, essentially a recumbent bike encased in a streamlined shell akin to an airplane fuselage. Most of the riders came from across the Atlantic to get here, and now are undertaking another ...




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    Roll Over America, here come the velos! - National Geographic

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    Roll Over America, here come the velos!
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    Over 50 of them (recumbent human powered vehicles) have crossed the US coast to coast, from Portland, Oregon to Washington DC at an average of 125 miles per day. The riders or velonauts as they call themselves are part of the first transcontinental ...




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