Organisations of interest to Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa
- Citizens for Safe Cycling
- re-Cycles community bike shop, Ottawa
- Recyclore Bicycle Recycling
- Ottawa Custom Cycle Society article: Custom bike riders putting the cool back into bike riding
- MTB Kanata
- FixedIncome Ottawa fixed gear and bike messenger 'zine
- West of Quebec Wheelers, in particular, their rollers
- Ottawa Start - Bicycle Guide
- Cycling Ottawa-Gatineau En vélo! Meetup group
- City of Ottawa pothole reporting online
- Human Powered Transportation Association, based in Brantford, but open memberhip from outside Brantford.
- Human Powered Transportation Association, new page, based in Brantford, but open memberhip from outside Brantford.
- Recumbent Cycling Ontario
- Association des Véhicules à Propulsion Humaine du Québec
- Velo Ontario Cycling Alliance "Greg's Law"
- Transport Myette Micro Déménagement human powered movers in Montreal (Globe and Mail article)
- Share The Road Cycling Coalition
- Canada Trails
- Warren Beauchamp's "Recumbents.com"
- WHIRL Washington's Happily Independent Recumbent Lovers
- Minnesota Human Powered Vehicle Association Members have built approx. 300 HPVs including Ice Racing machines.
- International Human Powered Vehicle Association
- Chunk 666 Humour as expressed in the art of building (not necessarily practical) human powered vehicles.
- BikeROD & Kustom
- The Company of Cyclists Suppliers of Bicycle Culture Quarterly and EnCycleOpedia
- Auto-Free Ottawa
- Subversive Choppers Urban Legion(SCUL) "The Counterculture to Americas Love for the Automobile"
- Atomic ZombieA creative HPV/robot builder in Thunder Bay...
- Chop Zone Another Brad Graham site
- VeloVision HPV magazine, started by Peter Eland, editor of BCQ
- WorkBike world-wide information on carrying loads and people by human power.
- The Complete Ottawa Cycling Guide 2002 Cycling information published by the City of Ottawa
- BentRider Online Magazine "BROL"
- Recumbent Cyclist News Magazine -- Defunct (archive)
- Valentines Day Massacre '99Ice-bike racing on Toronto Island
- Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa
- Bike Face, Durham, ON, Canada.
- Bicycles & les vélos, Collection of bicycles from the Canada Science and Technology Museum
- Scallywags Bike Club, Minneapolic, Minnesota, USA.
- MozBike, Moz, Oz, NZ.
- CRUD (Chopper Riding Urban Dwellers)
- Rat Patrol HQ Chicago
- East Van Chopper Fest, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pics from Ian Paterson
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- Tallbike construction in the Andes
- Chicago Freak Bike
- The Couch, Courier videos, Boston.
- The Junkers, Bangor Maine.
- Ghetto Fied Bikes
- Kinetic Sculpture Race (California)
- Kinetic Sculpture Race (Ferndale, CA, USA and Port Townsend, WA, USA)
- HPV builders forum on Yahoo
- Velomutations bike art by Pedal Play
- Green Hummer Project, Georgia, USA
- 1998 Freight Bike World Championship
- Momentum Magazine free magazine for "self-propelled people" published in Vancouver.
- Metz Bicycle Museum, New Jersey
- Recyclore Bicycle Recycling, Ottawa
- Street Films
- Kid bike portraits
- Human pedal-powered tank: 1 2(a, b, c, d, e) 3 4 5, kid's from 1950s
- Cycling in Ottawa blog
- Montana Transit Authority Custom, Sculptural Velocipedes
- Move By Bike in Portland, Oregon
- The Recycler, Artwork and Furniture from recycled bicycle parts
- Carolina Fontoura Alzaga, chandeliers from bike parts
- Cyclorama Bike Culture on-line exhibition.
- San Francisco Bike Party, and note: How We Ride-Details
- Recumbent P-rn
- We are replacing conventional delivery trucks in downtown Vancouver using our sustainable, heavy-duty cargo trikes. Our trikes can haul a substantial capacity - up to 500lbs!
- Applied Impractical Bicycle Dynamics
- The Ottawa Cyclist Bike Route Conditions
Other interesting links
- From the 1981 archives: Inventor scoots around Ottawa on a 38-kilometre-an-hour tricycle
- Zone 12 Project Gang's Child-sized recumbent trike
- Canada Science and Technology Museum bicycle pages
- Another winter HP move: Daniel in Chicago.
- Cargo Bikes article in the Sightline Daily "Northwest News that Matters"
- How to portage a Greenspeed GTT tandem trike.
- Unusual Human Powered Vehicles Roger Gilmore's excellent compilation. (archive.today site)
- Ross Harrop's UNUSUAL HOMEBUILT RECUMBENT BIKE DESIGNS page
- Recumbent Porn
- Kevin Atkins' Greenspeed Resources page.
- Humam Powered Bus, 32 cranks
- Joe Mitrovic's recumbent herd
- Brantford 2003 ice bike event
- carrying a couch by bike...
- The Couch Bike and other tales...
- Fastest Human Powered Voyage Across Canada Greg Kolodziejzyk
- The BikeCode
- Gordon Creelman recumbent rider from Ottawa, going around the world
- 1980s vintage Human Powered Vehicle Documentary with Peter Graves
- Bicycle pics from Burningman from Marc Merlin:
- Sydney Body Art Ride Blog (pics pics pics pics pics pics)
- Funny Bicycles
- Swing Bike
- YouTube: HPVOoO, 'bents, Recumbents, Tallbikes, Choppers, Freakbike, Bicycle
- Wikipedia: Human Powered Vehicle Rebumbent Bicycle
- Mental Speed Bumps new book from David Engwich
- Deliver anything by bike trailer blog
- HP Snow Plough
- Bunny on a Bike Ride
- Ottawa Outdoors article about recumbents
- Piano Bike Move
- Tim Hicks links page
- 'bent rider species identifier
- Odd Bikes
- Bicycle lawn mowers
- Joe Kochanowski's Homebuilt Bents
- Pedalled Sweeper
- Quadracycling in Ottawa
- Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery, cartoon
- Scott and Becky Go East, Ottawa couple rides around world on recumbents
- Cargo Cycling blog
- The People of Recumbent Cycling
- Cargo-Bike blog
- 13 Quadracycles: Four Wheeled Bike Round-Up
- Industrial Bikes that Get the Job Done
- "Big Bikes: The DogSled/The Pup/The BigDog
- Troy BikeRescue's Cargo Bikes
- Cargo Bike Gallery
- Jose Castrellon's Priti Baiks, some with fire-extinguisher-powered air horns
- Riding High: 30 Outrageous Bike Mods
- Xtracycle Gallery 538: Tipsy Bike Productions' AV Xtracycle
- The TINY MITY Pedal Pickup
- The Whimsical Circus of China?s Bike Peddlers
- sociable tandem velomobile
- 8rad, the Eight-Wheeler Cargo Cycle flatbed of bamboo
Suppliers of HPVs
- local:
- McCrank's Cycles at 889 Bank Street (613) 563-2200, carries the HPVeloteknic line of recumbent bikes and trikes
- Bicyclettes de Hull, 675 St-Joseph, Gatineau, (819) 770-6355, carry the Rans and Catrike recumbents
- Ergo Cycle, Ottawa-based online recumbent store, deals in TW-Bents and MetaBikes
- Southend Cycle and Sport in Greely, south of Ottawa, carries Quetzal
- Apax terrain-adapting suspension delta trike, Ottawa
- Dave's Bike Dump, Ottawa, builder of the "Brike" delta trike.
- Quantum Quadracycle, Ottawa, Rhoads Car agent
regional:
- Carey's Bikes from the Outlands, Toronto
- The Urbane Cyclist, A Worker's Co-op, Toronto
- TrikeTrails in Oshawa/Whitby, Ontario, Canada, carrying Greenspeed and Optima.
- Murray Cleland's Recumbent Trikes, in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, carrying MR Swift
- Cycle Quetzal, Montreal, Email, +1-888-783-8025
- Eco-Cycle Greenspeed clone manufacturer in Windsor, Ontario.
- VPA Stephane Peevers, 475 Bridge, Montreal, H3K 3G2, +1.514.969-7086
- 1 hp cycles, Montreal
- Cycle Horizon SWB OSS Recumbent dealer, Laval, QC
The Bicycle Family Cargo Bicycles, Precious Cargo Bicycles and Trailers, Vancouver, BC
- BlueVelo Velomobile manufacturer/shop in Toronto
- Velomobiles.ca Velomobile shop (Steve Schleicher) in British Columbia
- Mark Mueller's trailer page
- Dan Kavanagh's Organic Engines 'bent bikes, trikes and cargo vehicles, Florida, USA
- Mobility Engineering and their "SnowPod" hand-cranked human powered snowmobile.
- Crank-It "ultimate off-road machine.
- Mike's recumbent trike links photo catalogue
- Greenspeed 'bent trikes, Victoria State, Australia
- Tri-Sled and their "Flying Trike" also Flatbed quad, Victoria State, Australia
- MR Recumbent Trikes, "Swift", Victoria State, Australia
- BikeBox bicycle cargo trailers
- BikeCartAge bicycle cargo trailers
- Bikes At Work Inc.
- lodrag
- Human Powered Machines, Eugene, Oregon. Home of the Tri-hauler
- Lightfoot Cycles, Montana, recumbent bikes and trikes, quads, cargo, tandem, hand-cycles, velomobiles
- Where to Find A Four-Wheeled Bike or Tricycle resource page of the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
- EsimeXdesign wheel dynamic utilitarian HPVs.
- Long-John transport bike.
- AutoCanoe "Roadable Canoe for Seamless Transitions between Land and Water".
- HellBent Cycles, Inc Home of the Spitfire tadpole (with plans)
- Alternative Needs Transportation: function and style
- Ricksycle trike made by farm equipment people.
- Bike Trailer Shop
- Pedal RV
- Bullitt Fast Cargobikes from Larry vs. Harry
- Midget Bicycle Campers
- WeeHoo i-Go recumbent kid/child's trail-a-bike
- CykelTrafik Bike Trailers, Uppsala, Sweden
- TerraCycle Cargo Monster
- VeloNautix, Mick Sims new velomobile company
- Alfred's All-Weather-Solutions for Recumbent Bicycles
- Human Powered Machines, Eugene, Oregon, cargo bikes
- Onya Cycles, home of the "front-end loader"
- Surly Bill the Trailer
- Cycles Maximus Cargo Trikes
- Wandertec Tuba bicycle cargo trailer
- Kickstarter ELF by Durham, NC's Organic Transit: "fun and efficient personal electric vehicle powered by you and the sun".
- Toxy TRIMOBIL adaptable multi-purpose recumbent trike base.
- Ti-Trikes
- How to get a cargo bike in Canada
Resources
- Yellow pages listings for Machine Shops in Ottawa
- Cargo bike Resources in Canada
- Johnson Welding Works (Ottawa) Ltd. 70 Beech Street just east of the Prescott Hotel on Preston Street. 613-233-6336
- Kunstadt Sports 680 Bank Street (613) 233-4820 hosts Mike Plummer, a very "weird-bike-friendly" bike mechanic
- John Forester, author of "Effective Cycling"
- Peter Eland's Ackermann steering design spreadsheet
- Handy and Harmon The Brazing Book
- Handy and Harmon The Brazing Book (updated, requires registration)
- Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Winter Riding page, including a section on studding tires.
- Metal Supermarkets chain, of which there is a store in Ottawa: 2900 Sheffield Road, Unit 1, Ottawa, ON, K1B 1A4, 747-7511, F:747-07148 email
- WISIL's Trail calculators
- WISIL's R&D resource pages
- MARS' Project resource page
- Scot Nicol's Metallurgy for Cyclists series of articles
- Hellbent Cycles' Recumbent Trike Design Primer
- Manual for XYZ SPACEFRAME VEHICLES
- Flying with a trike
- These Aren' t Tykes on Little Bikes: A Mature Market Adopts the Tricycle
- Slip Not Traction bicycle tire chains
- Handcar Regatta
- Obtainium Works
- PennyFakeThing
- Steampunk cargo bike
- Victus Mortus a skeleton penny fake-bike
- PennyFakeThing
- Stoopidtall
- Progression of Top Speed Record (200m) (source)
Page last updated by
Richard Guy Briggs
Tue Feb 24 22:07:51 EST 2015