Lee Wakefield's Red Zeppelin

Back in the early 2000's Lee Wakefield in the UK build a coroplast shell around a Trice S that was one of the nicest designs around up to that point. He started developing a kit that was intended to go around a less expensive trike, but abandoned the effort.  There was an extensive set of pictures around that effort, but it seems to have disappeared.
 Here is the original thread from BROL and most of the pictures that went with the post 

Orin Peters - This weeks inspirational coroplast fairing creator

Taking the approach of using a manufactured trike as a chassis and building a fairing around it, Orin Peters has created several velomobiles using coroplast - a readily available and inexpensive material.
He's calling his most recent creation Hidalgo, built around a narrow track  (approx 30" wide) ICE QNT trike, he has done quite well with it, even in races against commercially available machines.  A previous machine consisted of a coroplast fairing around an ICE Sprint.
Here is Orin's website.
Here is a series of pictures of Hidalgo. 
Here is a long thread on Bentrideronline in which he reveals build details.
And here is a Bentrider online thread having to do with some of his racing experiences.

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