velomobiles

i had arranged to buy a velomobile from fietser.be in gent but such was not to be. They delivered it to ostend but when i tried to get in it my hips wouldn't quite fit! Johan goossens had arranged a 120 km trip for us the next day, all the way to gent via diksmerde, so i got in his velomobile, which is wider, and he rode mine. Velomobiles have a number of advantages - they are very streamlined and so can go fast (the record is 113kph I think!), and they are also weatherproof - they all have farings over the body, and some even have a removable roof so you can keep completely dry.