
Sports - Cycling - Human Powered Vehicles


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UC Berkeley Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Team
- Site dedicated to human powered vehicles and the assault on the human powered vehicle land speed record.
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Workbikes
- The industry portal for workbikes. Find out who makes them, who rides them and the latest news.
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BikeCartage - Bike Trailers
- Modular BikeCart technology is the fast, cost-effective and environmentally sound solution to modern urban delivery.
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Bikefix: human power solutions
- The centre for human powered vehicles of every description.
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Jack's Recumbent Website
- Describes how to fully fair a Linear Sonic. Photographs and descriptions of modifications made by other Linear owners.
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Recumbent Bicycles
- How to choose a recumbent, manufacturer websites, and information.
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Zsling Compressed Air Trike
- Plans and instructions for building a human-powered or hybrid human/motor-powered vehicles using common bicycle and auto parts.
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World Solar Cycle Challenge
- Annual event for participants to design and build a pedal-powered car capable of crossing the vast Australian continent, but with only daylight as fuel.
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Killer Tomato
- Kinetic Sculpture Races. Learn how to build human-powered, all-terrain vehicles. Find out where these races take place. Combining art, science, and technology can be fun.
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Bike Design for Engineers
- Bike design at CALPOLY San Luis Obispo. Includes background on the first Human powered helicopter, As well as student bicycle designs.
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Human Powered Equipment and Transportation
- The discussion of any type of equipment or transportation using human muscles, usually leg muscles with cranks and chains. This includes generators, mills, drills, presses, boats, planes, and land vehicles.
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Get Bent
- Information on recumbent biking and heathly lifestyles. The site offers a listing of south Florida recumbent biking events and a message board.
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Human Powered Race America
- The only racing series in the United States for recumbent and Human Powered Vehicles (HPVs). Includes events calendar, overview and history, along with information regarding the .deciMach Prize For Human Powered Speed.
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Quadcycles
- Focused on the proliferation and improvement of the "4 wheeled bike." Features links to manufacturers and related resources to earth conscious types of transportation.
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Recumbent Cycling Across America
- While touring America's backroads on a Lightning Stealth, Charles DiBella is available to speak at schools, churches, civic clubs, and with individuals.
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Team Y-knot's Kinetic Sculpture Site
- This site contains pictures, movies and commentary of Team Y-knot's Kinetic Sculptures. The first sculpture, Chips N Dips, ran in the 2002 Arcata to Ferndale Kinetic Sculpture Race.
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Dan Speas' Variable Exercise Bicycle
- Offers overview and photo gallery of a cable-driven bike with independent pedals and an infinite array of gear ratios. It is useful as a rehabilitation tool. Features videos on the bike and riding.
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MozBike.com
- Moz describes his bikes, how he builds them, what he uses them for. Mostly load bikes and silly bikes, some are both.
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HydroCycles
- A pedal-driven watercraft built for fun, speed, and stability. Features information on performance, available accessories, pricing, links and contacts.
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Meyers Boat Company
- Makers of Seacycle and WaterBike brand pedal watercraft. Features online installation and user manuals, parts and accessories information, along with distributer links and contacts.
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MicroMarine, Ltd.
- Makers of the MicroCAT brand rigid hull and inflatable type pedal watercraft. Offers standard bike-like seating and recumbent models. Information on models, propulsion, safety, testimonials, and contacts. Based in Medway, Massachusetts.
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Nauticraft
- An adult focused pedal craft with a form-fitted, padded seat. Features information on safety features, specifications, maneuverability, propulsion, options and pricing.
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Nomadic Research Labs
- The story and evolution from Behemoth to Microship, water-type HPVs.
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ShuttlebikeUSA
- Product developers of a kit to convert bicycles to ride on water with an inflatable Shuttle-Bike Kit.
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Watercycling fun
- Its a inflatable bicycle boat in a backpack; a kit that turns your bicycle into a bicycle boat with its own rudder and propellor. It is stable and has crossed the English Channel.
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WaveBike
- Combines the cycling with kayaking. Designed similiar to a road bike and offers upright riding on the water. Features overview, press releases, and contacts.
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International Water Cycling Organization
- A trade organization comprised of water cycling craft manufacturers and distributors. The associations goal is to promote water cycling as a fun, safe, healthy, and environmentally-friendly activity.
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Suncatcher
- Manufacturer that features a universal, catamaran-type platform of two fiberglass hulls that is used to convert a standard bicycle into a water cycle. Features overview of available models, including two-person and handcycling options.
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World of Waterbiking
- A non-profit portal for the Human Powered Vehicle Society provided by Delft Waterbike Technology, The Netherlands. Features racing events calendar, press releases and articles, design information, teams and boats, and links.
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Bycoo Challenge
- An event intended to set the first mainland to mainland cycle crossing of the English Channel. Features information on rules, launch dates, history, contacts and a photo gallery.
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Human Powered Boats
- Features numerous photo galleries of categorized watercycles, along with a competition and events calendar, classified ads, and a link gallery to resources for rowboats, paddleboats, canoes, kayaks, and rowing shells.
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University of Washington Human Powered Submarine Team
- Features news, photos and competition information on the school's bid to compete and set the world speed record.
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Virginia Tech Human Powered Submarine Team
- Features overview of the team, design, competition calendar and results, and corporate sponsors.
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Millersville University Human Powered Submarine Team
- Features information and news on the team's progress, competition schedule, photo gallery, links and contacts.
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ISR - International Submarine Races
- Annual competition on engineering design featuring university teams. Offers press release archive, newsletters, sponsors and links.
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Decavitator
- History, specifications, manufacturing methods, version, video and image galleries, and a general overview of this human-powered hydrofoil project.
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International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA)
- An association of national associations and organizations, dedicated to promoting improvement, innovation and creativity in the use of human power, especially in the design and development of human-powered vehicles.
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Human Powered Vehicles of Southern Ontario
- Membership organization of human-powered vehicle enthusiasts. Site provides photos, articles, record attempts and general information.
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HPV Club Denmark
- Promotes interest in human powered vehicles in Denmark. Events and results, history and general information. [Dansk, Deutsch, English]
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HPV Belgium
- HPV Belgium is a member of the Royal Belgium Cycling Association, whose goal is to promote human powered vehicles (land, water and air).
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OzHPV
- To organise and co-ordinate Human Powered Vehicle events in Australia.
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HPV Canterbury
- A group of people in and around Christchurch, New Zealand, with a common interest in making and using human powered vehicles.
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HPV Germany
- HPV Deutschland is the club for innovative transportation. Members are technicians and hobby mechanics, commuters nd touring cyclists, athletes, and would-be record-breakers.
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Human Powered Vehicle Association (HPVA)
- The United States sanctioning body for races and other sporting events and for new records in human powered land, water and air vehicles.
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Oregon Human Powered Vehicles
- Recumbent riding club serving Oregon and Southwest Washington. Provides links to other recumbent sites and FAQs.
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British Human Power Club
- Fosters all aspects of human-powered vehicles for competitive, recreational and utility activities, stimulates innovation in design and development, and promotes the use of HPV's in a wide range of activities.
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Michigan Human Powered Vehicle Association
- Features information on the group, its activities, and related resources and links.
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Minnesota Human Powered Vehicle Association (MnHPV)
- Features support and networking for HPVers and 'bent riders. Includes homegrown recumbent photos, events calendar, and contact details.
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WISIL HPVers Human Powered Vehicles
- Wisconsin and Illinois based HPV riders and racers gather and learn to build racing recumbent bicycles and human powered vehicles.
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LaBent by LaDue
- Plans and kits to build a recumbent bike.
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Recumbent Rides and Clubs by Cycle America
- Directory listing of recumbent bicycle rides and clubs in the US by Cycle America the NBG in action.
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ManyTracks
- Steve's home-made wooden recumbent bicycles.
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Natalia-Florence
- Designed to be the finest recumbent cycle in the world, the Natalia-Florence Model J11 Trike provides heart pounding performance on a stable comfortable platform.
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Build a No Weld Recumbent Bike
- Complete Plans to Build a SWB Recumbent Bicycle from two bikes.
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Recumbent Bike Riders
- For recumbent bicycles or bents, by the people who love riding them. Stories, images provided.
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Power On Cycling
- Specializing in Recumbent and Bicycle components and accessories.
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Penninger Machine and Recumbents
- Precision machining, design, build, fabrication and welding, Pro-Cut, Traveler Trike
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1st Recumbent Wing
- Devoted to designing and building recumbent bikes. 3D CAD graphics of various recumbent designs. Links to builder resources.
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Trek Bikes - Recumbents
- Information on featured bikes, real trails, cycling clubs, and dealers.
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The National Bicycle Greenway - Recumbent Encyclopedia
- Cycle America resource site featuring adult tricycles, three and four wheelers, dealers, streamliners, fairings, windscreens, recliners, laid back bicycles
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My BikeE Recumbent Bike
- A page about my BikeE recumbent bicycle, with many BikeE and Santa Cruz (California) bicycling links.
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SmartGroups.com: Recline and Glide
- Message board and chat forum offering photos, links and events calendar.
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SmartGroups.com: Rans Owners Group
- For fans and owners of Rans recumbents. Photos, a message board, links page, calendar, and rider of the week.
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The Termite Taxi
- Plans to build a quality homebuilt recumbent without welding. Features brief overview, specifications and contact information.
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Tim Gets Bent
- About a recumbent for sale. Contains pictures and links.
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Joel's Recumbent Page
- Site devoted to recumbent cycling. Recumbent projects, and links to other pages. Proud member of MARS, Metro Area Recumbent Society.
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TyRus HPVs
- Offering advertising space and sponsorship opportunities in the Year 2000 Race Brochure (Rocky Mountain Human Powered Speed Championships). Builders and designers since 1989.
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Recumbents and Technomadics
- Offers an extensive list of home pages of recumbent riders around the globe. Also, features articles and views of the author, along with videos of various 'bents.
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U.S. Handcycling Federation
- National governing body of American handcycling.
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Himalayan Hand-Cycling Expedition
- Learn from the accounts of the first hand-powered traversal of the Karakoram.
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Faszination Handbike
- European handcycling web site. Events, results, dates, and pictures. [German and English]
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Paul's Handcyle Diary
- A place to explore the sport of handcycling. Message board, handcycling news, photos, links.
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www.Handcycling.com
- Formally Handcycle Home Planet. Updated and Expanded. A handcycle resource site for new riders and veteran rider alike.
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Northeast Passage
- Recources for Handcycling and Handbiking.
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Handbike-Team - Rad3 Handbike
- Rad 3 Handcycle.
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Quinn's Handcycling Page
- Handcycling information and stories from the views of an avid handcyclist. Gear up or gear down for an insightful look at the world of handcycling!
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Handcycling Newsgroup provided by E-groups
- Join this handcycling newsgroup. Started and Maintained by Challenge Cycling
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ASF Mulhouse
- It's a web site about handcycling from France in French and English.
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National Ability Center
- Hosts handcycle rides as well as other adapted sports and recreational programs. Located in Park City, Utah.
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Challenge Cycling
- A site for handcycling, adapted cycling, and bicycling in the New England region of the United States.
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Bentrider Online Magazine
- Dedicated to promoting recumbent cycling. Contains reviews of new bikes, editorials, recumbent events, industry rumors.
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E-Bent Recumbent Biking E-Zine
- Focus on people. Interviews, articles, trip reports, rides, equipment, bike tours, community, and fun.
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Recumbent and Tandem Rider Magazine
- Serves as a forum of communication for riders and enthusiasts of recumbent and tandem bicycles. The magazine includes reviews, editorials, how-to's and other related material.
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Human Power
- The Journal of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA). Order form available in PDF.
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Recumbent Cyclist News
- Written and produced by and for recumbent bicyclists.