North American Velonaut Map

 Here is a link to the North American Velonaut map that I started a few years ago.  The purpose of the map remains to foster awareness and use of velomobiles in North America by helping those curious about velomobiles, or looking for other folks with whom to ride locate velonauts in their area. For the purpose of this map - to foster the spread and usage of velomobiles- the definition of a velomobile is fairly broad: a vehicle that is primarily human powered, and substantially enclosed.

If you are a North American velomobile rider, please feel free to add yourself:

Add yourself by clicking "Map Access" at the upper right and then type "velonaut" in the field where it asks for admin, member or viewer key. Click "Unlock" and then you should be able to go to Additions (upper left) and add a marker.

UPDATE: It seems that Zeemaps has instituted a new policy that freezes the map after 100 views, and requires payment to make it accessible thereafter.  It is cost prohibitive so for the time being it is down.  I'm not yet sure what I will do to replace it, and am open to suggestions!

Steintrtikes Interceptor here!

Last week the first Steintrikes Interceptor Velomobile in North America arrived here. Looks good - last evening I finally had some time to take the Meerkat chassis out of the shell. This weekend I plan to put on the components with the idea of putting it back in the shell this coming week. It'll be interesting to see how fast it really is. The claim is that it is very fast - possibly as fast as a Quest.

Cheers,
-Ethan
www.wildfirehpv.com
Your New England Source forRecumbent Bikes, Trikes and Velomobiles

Introductory Post

A bit of background: back in 2000 or so, I first started the North American Velomobilists Website at www.velomobiles.net. The purpose of that site was and is to provide information for people and make it easier to obtain one. I figured that there were three main approaches to obtaining a velomobile and this is how I arranged the website. One could:

1. Buy a commercially available one.
2. Buy a commercially built bike or trike and build a fairing or enclosure around it.
3. Build the whole thing from scratch.

I haven't been updating velomobiles.net much lately, but I remain convinced that the velomobile has a role to play in how we move ourselves from place to place now and in the future and am working on redoing the website for velomobiles.net and Wildfire HPV, the cycle shop that I started since creating North American Velomobilist which specializes in recumbent bikes, trikes, and of course, velomobiles.

We are expecting the new Steintrikes Interceptor velomobile to arrive in Boston on Wednesday of this week - first one in North America! The Interceptor is based around the Meerkat (Mungo) full suspension tadpole trike built by Steintrikes. (FMI on the Interceptor please visit the Bike Revolution website)

pedal on!
-Ethan
www.wildfirehpv.com
Your New England Source for recumbent cycles and velomobiles