Organisations of interest to Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa

• Citizens for Safe Cycling
• Ottawa Re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op
• Recyclore Bicycle Recycling
• MTB Kanata
• FixedIncome Ottawa fixed gear and bike messenger 'zine
• Ottawa Start - Bicycle Guide
• 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
• Share The Road Cycling Coalition
• 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
• Valentines Day Massacre '99Ice-bike racing on Toronto Island
• Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa
• Bike Face, Durham, ON, Canada.
• Scallywags Bike Club, Minneapolic, Minnesota, USA.
• MozBike, Moz, Oz, NZ.
• CRUD (Chopper Riding Urban Dwellers)
• East Van Chopper Fest, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pics from Ian Paterson 2003 2004 2005 2006
• 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

Other interesting links

• Canada Science and Technology Museum bicycle pages
• Another winter HP move: Daniel in Chicago.
• How to portage a Greenspeed GTT tandem trike.
• Unusual Human Powered Vehicles Roger Gilmore's excellent compilation.
• Ross Harrop's UNUSUAL HOMEBUILT RECUMBENT BIKE DESIGNS page
• Minneapolis' Bicycle Recycle folks, featuring the "Cartbike Building Misadventures" page
• 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
• Bicycle pics from Burningman from Marc Merlin:
  • 2006 (highlights, Critical Dicks, Critical Tits)
  • 2005 (Critical Dicks, Critical Tits)
  • 2004 (Critical Dicks, Critical Tits)
  • 2003 (Critical Tits)
  • 2002
• 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

Suppliers of HPVs

• 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.
• 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
• 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" ;-) 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
• 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
• Quantum Quadracycle, Ottawa, Rhoads Car agent
• Cycle Horizon SWB OSS Recumbent dealer, Laval, QC
• Bullitt Fast Cargobikes from Larry vs. Harry

Resources

• Yellow pages listings for Machine Shops in Ottawa
• John Forester, author of "Effective Cycling"
• Peter Eland's Ackermann steering design spreadsheet
• Handy and Harmon The Brazing Book
• 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