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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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!

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.
• 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:
  • 2007
  • 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
• 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

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

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