Thank you for answering my question!

You make exceptional videos!

😂 vastasit! Vitsiksi oli nämä tarkoitettu. Mutta kiitos maininnasta. 😂😂😂

Hello Saukki, Thanks for answer my question. I ride my longest trips on my, 2 wheeler recumbent 80km, recumbent trike 55km and my green Quattrovelo 185km(And doing an 200km in may.)

Haha, maybe a hand activated rear vent is needed for when you offgas. Could help with intermittently cooling the velomobile too.

Täähän oli hyvä setti - kannattaa tehdä toistekin! Kääntösäde oli kyllä tuossa vehkeessä suurin järkytys kun silloin kokeilin!

The Velotilt was a nice ride and pretty fast too. I don't think they are still being made. Love your videos.

Nice vid, cheers

Kiitos vastauksesta :)

Very informative vid, thanx Saukki. Still, I have another question: What new feature would you like to have in the next velomobile design?

Dude your awesome

Saukki, please do more Q&A because I would love to ask you several questions and regret not doing so this time. Also you could talk for an hour about velomobiles and I wouldn't mind, I can't possibly have one because I don't have a garage here in the city so I must enjoy it through your channel and stick to my upright bikes :). Do you ever think you would go out and just ride all day and see how far you can go in a loop? I have done just over 250k in a day once before on my road bike at 26kph average, Strava estimates 165w average effort but I have no power meter, about ten hours moving time and 14 hours real time. I think you could do something like that but get 300-400km based on some of the data on your videos, and it would be really interesting to see. Loved this video by the way.

Allow late question please Saauki? Now that you have both QTV and Quest, which do you find you use most and why? Congratulations on the 29,500km. Excellent, exemplary HPV effort.

Wim Schermer's velotilt project is for sale. It's ready for production now. I still think there is room for improvement. But for now it would be good if we'll see 100 of those on the roads everywhere and than with the feedback of the riders work on better models. It's the best tilting project by my knowledge.

i like the scene about farting :-) saukki at it's best (when laughing )

Thanks! Are there any good resources if you want to build your own velomobile? I have this idea of building a boat (~5 meter) that is also a pedal electric velomobile and also wide enough to use as a micro camper to sleep in for camping. So you could go from your boat at anchor, drive from water onto land seamlessly, go shopping and go back. Or explore the nature of some island. Where do I start? Or should I stop haha. Is there a community that could help me once I have sketched and designed this idea a bit further?

Portnoy - yeah, my man! 🥰 You know Carter Beauford @Dave Matthews Band? Should take a look... Thanks for answering my questions. Really appreciated that!

Kiitos juttutuokiosta. Se oli justiin sopivan mittanen, kun vielä ehdin lasten kanssa hiekkalaatikolle.

Very interesting. My DFXL is yellow top and lime green bottom. I've been told it is a very eyecatching color combo. I live in Texas and my friend here, who got me interested in velomobiles, has the red and white colors - all his velos are that color combo. I agree, though - orange does show very well!

one piece of advice regarding color. Yellow is cool but make sure the top(which youre facing during the ride) isnt painted in yellow because thats not pleasant and not necessary . Rest of the body may be painted in yellow because thats what others drivers notice

What is the typical weight limit for riders? Can a Pedal Assist also feature Full Throttle? What would be the safest speed for use with PAS and Full Throttle on a Velomobile? I noticed there are two elongated openings in the front floor of your Quest. Is there a reason those are there? Can they be sealed to keep out the elements and poor weather?

00:52 - hilarious!

@saukki Congratulations on the 29,500km. Excellent, exemplary HPV effort. Now that you have both QTV and Quest, which do you find you use most and why?

For your next Q&A: how to set the foot lenght in a velomobile (compared to an upright bicycle). I'm not really sure about my Leitra setting (I have a huge length possibily for people from 1m70 to 1m90)

another ? What hardware/gearing did u order in your new quattrovelo? U said 1x10 with mountain drive?

What do you think about a f1/motogp style race for velomobiles. do you think it will catch on? and get existing bike manufacturers interested in velomobiles.

Thanks for all the replies!!! And be careful with farthing! LOL good one 👍🏻

I don't have any questions about it, just like you video Saukki..love from Malaysia

Hehe... Maybe I can answer some of those questions too: 1. Why don't velomobil riders wear helmets - I tried a bike helmet, but with it I could not rest my head on the foam pad at the front of the hatch. 2. For what road conditions are velomobiles: Clean streets with lower traffic and clean bikeways with no narrow turns. Flat areas. Uphill is the hell. Unfortunatly I found out, that the city where I live is not suited for velomobiles, that's why I most likely will sell my Quattrovelo XL again. If your living area does not provide the conditions of the area where I live, then you can buy one. :D Now I will describe what my experiences with my velomobil were: 1. ride - after 500m I had a flat tyre. Not far away from my place there is a soccer arena - lots of smashed glass bottles on the bikeways. It was not my first flat tyre because of glass. Bought some Schwalbe tyres with more puncture protection. In my town they equipped the bikeways with special bike traffic lights. You need to hit a switch to get the traffic light to turn green - but at most lights you can not reach the switch from the low seat position of the velomobil because the switches are too high. Next to many switch poles they put large stones with sharp edges - you can not drive next to the pole without hitting these stones as the velomobil is wider. Most bike ways here have a poor quality - a lot of pot holes and bumpes. When the bikeways cross streets there a deep street gutters. If there is construction work on the streets or on the sidewalks, they often close the bikeways to put construction material on them or transform them into sideway substitutes where you have to push your bike. There is a special bikeway and to prevent cars to enter it, they always put a pole right in the middle of them where there is a street - but you can not enter the special bikeway from the streets parallel bikeways because the turning radius of velomobiles, trikes and long carrier bikes can not turn right into this way because they would hit the pole. We have to push the bike or velomobil around the corner. The worse the bikeways, the more traffic is on the streets. Those streets have 2 lane in every direction and are full of trucks. For many drivers a red traffic light is only a recommandation. Even with my upright bike I was nearly hit by cars which wanted to turn right into a driveway. Not to mention my broken hand from a bike accident when a car driver violated my priority of traffic. Then I tought: hey, just take the QV for long distant rides on the countryside like Saukki does it - it partially worked. On small country roads with only a few cars, it works. But bigger country roads? Much to dangerous! An insane fast amount of cars and trucks. Luckily there are bikeways next to them - but only in ONE direction! My experience was that there were a lot of branchlets on the bikeway. With 3 or 4 wheels difficult not to hit them and when I managed not to overroll them with my wheels and maybe get a flat tyre, then they hit the bottom of my QV because it is too low above the ground. Then I made a longer tour and when I had to go home it was dark. I already mentioned that there often is only 1 bikeway next to these country roads - and I had to ride into the "wrong" direction in the dark - guess what happened!? The car drivers where annoyed of my QVs front light and turned on their car's full beam! Then I could not see a thing. To prevent this I had to set the QVs front light to low position, but then I could not see a thing. I was forced to ride the whole route with 10km per hour.Took me 2 hours longer. I tried the speed of 15km/h but then I nearly crashed into a tree when the bikeway took a turn and once I left the bikeway and nearly turned over. My head and my eyes are exactly on the height of the car front lights. Especially the bright white lights were a pain. On that road there was one car after the next one - and endless line of cars. Then the bikeway had to cross the exit of the expressway in a right angle and no sign, no reflectors. I had to get out and search for the other side of the bikeway with a torch. The bikeway then ended at one side of the road and went on on the other side - hard to find where in the dark - but much to dangerous to ride on this type of road. I was really happy when I finnally was home... In my area I can only use the velomobil in daylight on not very many streets and the bikeways are so bad, that I can only ride 15km/h on most ways. With my upright I can ride 25 km/h on those ways. The plan was to go at least that fast on the countryside, but I could only reach 25 to 35km/h on one or two occasions - good weather, daylight, sunday with only a handfull of cars on the streets and no trucks. For this few occasions was the Quattovelo much too expensive. The street and traffic conditions at the place where I live are totally different than the test ride conditions on a bike show in a far away part of the country. So if you want to buy a velomobile, analyze the traffic conditions of your living area first, before you spend a lot of money - even though it is pretty convenient to sit in a velomobil - you don't get the usual "bike" pain in hand or back. I prolly will switch to something with a higher seat position to get my eyes higher than the car lights; to something with a smaller turning radius; to something with higher ground clearance and tyres with maximum puncture protection because of all the glass and branch crap on the bikeways. And maybe electric assist - as I forgot to mention the hills here which are much more evil with a heavy velomobil than with a light HP trike. Let's look forward for this year's SPEZI.

4:27 didn't expect this 🤣

HA!! The worst thing...... yes, it's amazing how long that smell can continue; it sure does in my WAW and Milan! :) I would think it would disappear quickly, but NO!!!!........

The velomobile with the best turning radius and braking that I have ever seen was the Pterovelo. I don't think it is in production anymore. Although Franz might build them to order.

I have an update on your Quattrovelo: I'm five spots below you on the list 😉

How does it work on pot holes and bumps/humps on the road.

the worst thing about is saving money and than waiting to its ready.

Saludos desde chile

Hi Saukki I was thinking about the question "Do you think a velomobile without suspension is a bad idea?" When you made your "Upgrading my Quest velomobile"-series, the conclusion seemed to be that the tire-choice made more difference then the suspension upgrade. Also it seems like many velomobile-riders change to stiffer suspension in the front to make the velomobile more stable, but at the same time the suspension-travel gets reduced. There are many recumbent trikes that works fine without suspension even in quite high speed. Would not a velomobile without suspension actually work quite fine if fitted with good tires? Is the suspension most important for comfort or for safety reasons(traction and agility)? Love your videos! Greetings from Sweden :)

Hi! I saw that you had a Challange recumbent. How does it compare to the Azub. I think the engineering department was a little bit lazy at Challange (they are out of business now). My Challange Mistral has a couple of flaws. The rear suspension is very basic, it is prone to flex a lot when you pedal, so it consumes a lot of energy. The rear rack is not a good design, I can not fit my Ortlieb paniers to it :(. And it has only two tubes to guide the chain, no rollers, I am not sure about the exact numbers, but I think it has a lot of drag. Other topic. Unfortunately I live 40km away from my workplace. When I lived 18km away, I rode every day to work, it was good. Now I only ride 1km to the train, I took the train, and I ride my folding bike 4km to my workplace. And I hate the the train ride :D. So I am thinking about en E-bike setup, like a Velomobil with electric assist. But I am not sure about the possibility. My ride is 40km in one way with 280m uphill and 230m downhill. It can take 2:30-3:00 hours in regular bike. But maybe with a speed pedelec it can be possible to do it in one hour. What is your average speed on a terrain like this on your Azub vs. the Velo?

Carbon fiber is lighter but fiberglass is stronger and you can get aero grade fiberglass that is much more lighter than regular. and then there is carbon and glass combo fiber fabrics

Please add subtitles!

The fart part 😂😂😂

Hi Saukki, may I ask how much does a velomobile like yours cost

For off road you would just go with a trials bicycle.

My reason for not using the helmet anymore is that my head needs to go forward too much. It causes neck and upper back problems for me. Looking to find a thinner helmet (possible custom) to fix this, because I'm a bit afraid of falling over sideways.

Mike Portnoy! My choice as well.

I'm gonna learn Finnish and visit.

Streamliners will get in problems I think when it's slippery. But in the summer it would be a great bike also on the normal road. Here is the most beautiful project of that:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJpioNSaxti8p2Q.html

and as we all know, orange Velomobiles are way faster. ;-)

I forgot to ask last week, But where can i buy a second hand Velomobiles In england?

ha! they all sent cheater youtubes with young people. Maybe they can find youtubes with seniors exiting. when i was 40 or even 50 l could exit like these vids. When u get 67 it will be different.

Saukki: they all cheated, showing youtubes of young people:)

My favorite youtuber from Finland is @supermoniveto besides yourself!

Thanks! Are there any good resources if you want to build your own velomobile? I have this idea of building a boat (~5 meter) that is also a pedal electric velomobile and also wide enough to use as a micro camper to sleep in for camping. So you could go from your boat at anchor, drive from water onto land seamlessly, go shopping and go back. Or explore the nature of some island. Where do I start? Or should I stop haha. Is there a community that could help me once I have sketched and designed this idea a bit further?