Du meinst, mein normales Rad mal mit Klickpedalen ausrüsten, um da ein Gefühl für zu bekommen?
Genau
Ah, jetzt klingt das logisch mit dem Zehnkampf
Tatsächlich ist Bocholt näher, denke, ich werde da mal reinschauen.
Die stabile Reisezeit wundert mich. Kann mir das gar nicht so richtig vorstellen.
Hope you can read English
German is difficult for me so if I don't have time to check my text or translate & check I sometimes use my mother tongue ;-)
Depends a bit on the climate you live in, in Finland it doesn't work:
At first, I didn't really believe it either. Lots of years ago, I fell hard with my racing bike in winter, and decided not to ride when it can be slippery.
Then, just before I bought my Quest, I watched a lot of videos by Clement Pilette - this added to my decision to just go for it:
In the Netherlands, we're not allowed to ride spiked tires on our cars in winter because it damages the roads. A bike however is light enough to not cause serious damage when on spikes and/or nobody ever thought of making rules for this. So you can put a set of
Marathon Winter Plus on your bike: They're a lot slower than for example the Schwalbe G-One, but a lot quicker than this:
The nice thing about a velomobile is that there's always a road to ride. When cars get in a traffic jam, you can ride past them on the road, go on the sidewalk, or (in the Netherlands) find a cycling path off the main road to get where you're going.
The scary thing about our minimal winters is that most drivers have a lack of sense and don't take their responsibility. You'll always find one or two idiots doing 100 km/h when everyone is doing 30 km/h, so whatever you do, if it's slippery, stay away from cars ;-)
This video illustrates the flexibility:
Here, I went to bring my child to kindergarten first: He is behind me in the QuattroVelo+. This is also why there is a two-minute wait on a sidewalk; he is getting out of the bike and going inside - the drop-off was right at the sidewalk because of Corona. I wanted to make this video so I admit I was pushing it a bit on the first cyclepath - wanted to demonstrate it's possible to keep up with the cars, but you really need to have your eyes everywhere then - the design speed of that cyling path is a lot lower than 45-50 km/h.
Once I left kindergarten, I had to cross the road to get on the cycling path (there was a very confused cyclist on my left, it seemed as if he saw an alien and then he had to decide between passing left or right. Which is why I was standing still on the road for a bit). This cycling path runs alongside the metro tracks, while cars need to drive all the way around, but cannot go faster than I can. Next stop is the shop, I had to quickly get some stuff for evening diner and came out with two full bags of groceries :+ Nice thing about a bike is that you can park it right in front of the shop, instead of in the parking garage and then walk inside (carpark = below the square I parked on).
After getting groceries I leave, and anticipated on some traffic and joggers on the cycling paths, so I decided to go to the Hornbach (similar to OBI) using the road. In the last section my speed goes up to close to 60 km/h, because the car behind me was a bit close. Luckily, the car in front of me was also speeding :-D
The road I'm riding on is very, very busy on normal (non-Corona) mornings; when I go to my customer in Leiden, I usually come off the bridge you see right at the end, and then from the roundabout right to the other end of the neighbourhood is basically one big long traffic jam. On those days, I dó ride the cycling path - can't ride 50 km/h there but 25-30 is usually possible. I've had more than one occasion where it took me >20 minutes to get through this 3 kilometer neighbourhood by car.
Haben die meisten Räder nicht an die 10m Wendekreis? Weil die hat man auf dem Parcours leider nicht an Platz
I think the DF, Alpha7 and Strada don't need 10m. the open wheel wells really help here, especially if the bike is running on 28mm tires.
For me, the turning radius is not such a problem, as long as I can make it through turns on the cycling path with some margin. I used to run my Quest on 50-406 GoCycles - really fast tires (also in winter!) but the turning radius is total hell. On the cycling path below (in Leiden), I could just make it through this roundabout by riding the red line (at 2-3 km/h, up the sidewalk with a bump, and off again a little further
):