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Thanks! M9 is an awesome machine! I'm about to upgrade to a SnoekL, so the globe-trotting Quest will be for sale next year :)

Finland looks to be a great place for cycling...at least from Saukki's videos! Good luck with your travel plan!

I finally bought a cheap, small exercise chute and I hope to test it out this summer.

@@quest818velomobile6 post the results here...

Yep, the Quest is definitely tippy...mostly because of the high center of gravity made worse by a narrow track width. I've had it on 2 wheels about 6 or 7 times...never rolled it thankfully. I have ordered a SnoekL which has a similar track width but it sits much lower and the handling is NIGHT & DAY! The SnoekL seemed glued to the road compared to the Quest.

I always just booked a bicycle ticket and nobody ever asked any questions. The worst difficulty I had was on the Wall Street Ferry Terminal. It was very difficult to get the bike onto that ferry, but it barely fit.

Where are you from,if i can ask? Iam from central europe.

Thanks! I'm living in Germany again so maybe it will be possible someday!

It was also really great to finally meet you Casper! Thanks for the great conversation, and I hope to see you again in December.

Hello! I do remember you, always nice to see a beautiful Quest...and yours was in great shape. My only regret was not picking a different color for my Quest, and I really like the blue color that you selected. Hope to see you again in Utrecht in December!

I wish I had more time to talk with him. Quite an incredible story which he was pretty modest about. Riding to the OBT from Sweden in 4 days is just bonkers! Even if this was southern Sweden. When I hear about the incredible distances others ride with their velos I am really impressed. More than 20,000 km per year is not unheard of.

I believe he lives not to far away from the event. Somewhere in Germany if I am correct. But he’s American for sure :)

I haven't spoke on the channel about it any...but I actually moved BACK to Germany 2 years ago (again). Complicated story, but it seems I'll have to do the Ride-back-to-the-USA once again in the future. Perhaps I head south this time ;)

@@quest818velomobile6 That all sounds very interesting, John. I didn't realize it has been two years since your trip to the U.S. When you returned to Germany, which shipping method did you employ for your Quest?

@@Brian-bp5pe When I accepted the job offer in Germany my new employer paid to move over all of our household goods in a 20' shipping container...and this included the velo. The moving company built a very substantial crate for the Quest and it was well protected. So I always have a way to get it back to the USA when the time comes (if I choose to not ride it back again)

@@quest818velomobile6 John, that island-hopping thing was a very creative solution to the shipping problem. I know that ferries have always gone back-and-forth between Ireland and Britain. Would you happen to know if there is any kind of maritime ferry service between Ireland and destinations further to the west? I don't think any such service (scheduled, or unscheduled) exists. If one has the time, travelling this way has a certain appeal to it. Ditto for ferry service between Newfoundland and points further east. It's like living in that (Shel Silverstein) children's poem about reaching the place where the sidewalk ends!

Hi there! I only worried about theft in Brooklyn!! The entire trip, I left the bike next to my tent at night and never had anybody try to mess with it.

The solar panel was used to recharge a cellphone, rear LED light, and a 5v backup battery bank.

The Alleweder looked good when I saw it. It seems to fare quite a bit better with the NYC streets than his Mango does.

Your European trip was great to watch a great achievement!

I bought another Alleweader just recently the bigger A4

Awesome. I'm glad you found my channel and got to see your old bike. That's pretty awesome!

Hi Dave, I pre-planned the entire trip over the course of a year. Initially, I had planned to travel from Iceland over to Nova Scotia, Bar Harbor Maine, then down through Boston and NYC...but the grounding of the 737-MAX skewered those plans as I couldn't get the bike shipped to Nova Scotia from Iceland.

Jules, Congrats on the QV order! I live in Germany right over the Dutch border near Sittard...I moved back over to Europe in 2020. Once you get your velo let me know and we can meet up! I'm glad you enjoy the videos...I need to make more of them but I have too many interests and making videos is very time intensive for me. Anyway, all the best!

@@quest818velomobile6 thanks. Take it easy. It’s not that I expect videos and you need to make more ;). It’s ok like it is right now! I certainly gonna try it to make videos too. I find it very relaxing to watch :). Now….if I find a way to send you a private message somehow or a way you can send me one, I can send you some details about how to meet up then. The folks at velomobiel.nl told me it will take about half a year from now till I can retrieve the bike from their shop. I’m at their order list at their site.

Hello Birgir! Thanks so much for the nice comments about my trip! Those folks at the campground were not Icelandic...and I have no hard feelings now about the interaction, in fact I feel a bit silly about it now but I did want to record my impressions exactly as they were at the time. I had mostly a very positive experience in Iceland with fellow drivers. Primarily the east end of the country was very quiet and I didn't encounter a large amount of traffic until passing west of Hofn. I had one driver near Starmýri almost hit me head-on. I didn't get it on video but he was using his cellphone to record me as he drove toward me. He drifted left over the centerline and was about 1-2 seconds from hitting me head-on when he veered back into his lane. I really had nowhere to go either as there was a huge drop-off on my right. I was pretty shook up from it and stopped on the side of the road for a while. I'm not sure why I never mentioned it until now. The only other really close call was in Denmark. I found cycling on the road too uncomfortable as I got to Selfoss as there were too many big trucks and cars and it was too dangerous for them to all be passing me. It was a good choice to go south from there. I noted that there is no suitable bike path from Keflavik to Reykjavik, and had to ride on the shoulder of the main road (highway?). Cycling in downtown Reykjavik was excellent and a lot of fun. Some decent bike paths to be found, but I always felt comfortable on the smaller streets. Other than the coarse road surface and winds, I found the trip across your country to be the most amazing cycling experience of my life. I only wish I could have met you or someone from your organization. I didn't really make a big deal about the trip at the time, and I wish now I would have used it as a means to spread acceptance for cycling. Anyway all the best!!

Hi Sander, The truth is that I don't lock the bike very often. During that trip 2 years ago I never really left the bike unattended for very long. It is a large, bulky thing not easily carted away. When I am camping I park it right next to my tent so I can keep an ear on it.

Thanks John! Iceland was the best part of the trip! Hope to see you again at Spezi someday.

@@quest818velomobile6 your vlog transported me there, I will follow in your footsteps one day #inspired :🙂

@@velo-ads4206 If you ever get to Iceland to ride your velo, let me know and I will help out with some local knowledge.

It would be tough on a Quest because of the wheel only being bolted to the right side of the hub. The Rohloff also has a substantial energy loss in some gears (8th gear is 1:1 I think). I used to have one on another bike. Since the 2019 trip I have replaced my front derailleur with a Schlumpf Mountain Drive. This is useful as I am in a 1:1 gear ratio 99% of the time, then down to a 2.5:1 reduction only when I need to climb (with a slight energy loss). Swapped the front ring out for a 57T chainring. I think it would be a much better velo now on a trip like that. Since I live in Germany again now, it may happen again someday ;)

Hi Marcel! Thanks for the good words! Another fun fact...since last year the velomobile is back on base here at GK! Maybe we can meet up sometime. 👍

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Kirk, Thanks for the tip! I just got new Alex Rims for the velo and am getting them laced onto the hubs this week. We will see if that solves my issue. Apparently, the tubeless rims that I was originally sold had the spokes not properly aligned perpendicular to the rim edge and created stress on the spoke nipple.

@@quest818velomobile6 I hope you got the Alex Downhill rims. Actually I don't know their current line up but the Downhill rim, was the best for our use they put out, last I checked. The Velocity Dyad rim that I use on the front now, has proven to be the best for the front so far. I use the Velocity Cliffhanger on the back. I lost a few tires and rims from hitting pot holes at speed, that were hidden by water. Which can be bad, when in the back of beyond on Hwy 12 on the Colombia Plateau. You can replace spokes, tires or tubes from your spares stash but a rim? I almost went the tubeless route since it has worked so well for Saukki, over in Western Siberia but realized he doesn't run the mountain roads I do, or across the high plateau. I tend to stick to between SD and the Pacific these days. So I picked the tuffist, light rims I could find, laced them up two cross on the outer and radial on the inside. So far no briken spokes or other problems. Although going down the East side of Lolo Pass at warp speed, had me thinking something, was going to break fer sure. Good luck to you and all who sail in you.

@@kirkjones9639 "Good luck to you and all who sail in you" XD

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Glad you enjoyed it! I only have 16,000 kms on it after 3 years of ownership. It should be much more!! In what part of the world are you riding your Quest??

@@quest818velomobile6 I ride my Quest QB 027 in the sunny windy SW Texas NM El Paso Texas.

It really is! I need to go back and explore a bit more. Rotterdam is a really great city and only 2 hours from my house currently. Australia seems like it would be nice for velomobiling in the right weather. Are there good bike path networks in the big cities?