How to Make Your Velomobile Faster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Here is 5 tips on how to make your velomobile faster by improving the efficiency and aerodynamics. If you have more ideas, please write them to the comment section below the video.
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If your roads are in good conditions, there are Schwalbe One evolution 20" tires that are very, VERY fast. Essentially a roadbike tire but in 20". Thin, light, narrow and excellent rolling resistance.
Wax your chain. A mixture of 50% wax and 50% parafin oil is the perfect lubricant for your chain. Strip the chain completely of any dirt and grease, then bath it in the hot wax/oil mixture. Friction facts states that this saves up to 10 watts of power compared to normal chain lube for bicycles.
Try latex inner tubes(if they are available in the needed size). Yes, you have to pump them up every day, but latex creates a lot less friction than regular butly tubes.
Avoid internal gear hubs. They might be less maintenance, but a chain on a cassette can be up to 98-99% effective. planetary gears are at most only 95% effective.
Play around with tire pressure. go with the highest tire pressure where you are still comfortable
Excellent tips and a very informative video. Also, it's important that the wheels are properly aligned to reduce rolling resistance from tire scrub. Thanks, Saukki and Happy Velomobiling!
I watched a past video of yours about alarms for velomobiles. One item that I have seen is the Oxford Max-D U lock with alarm.
Since I wasn't able to find that video again, I decided to put my comment here.
Thank you very much Saukki for sharing your experience.
Hi Saukki, nice one! I love how you cloned yourself. Go on, man!
Excellent and useful content as always, Saukki. Keep the great videos coming!
Thanks, Saukki. Great tips and fantastic T's.
Cheers Saukki that was very informative, I enjoyed it.
Been waiting on this video for a while,😀 thanks for the tips .
Sweet t-shirt.
And you can get one for yourself from www.saukki.com/shop 😉
and lots of stickers of course makes it a lot faster ..
Especially if they are Mint Sauce stickers...!
Stickers add horsepower! This is known!
Wheel pants are another possible addition, if you ride an open-wheel arc model unlike Saukki.
Cool video, and thanks for the tips. I especially like how you cloned your self; neat trick.
Do Velo wheels have bearings in the hubs, made from metal? Not sure if Velos have an option for ceramic bearings?
Good tips. i think my heels stick out when I am pedaling, so probably need more than those covers
Actually those silocone rubber thingy covers allow the heel to stick out a little bit
Hi, can you make a V shaped pieces to cover the front wheel openings, maybe like soft zote foam that's held by velcro inside and trimmed to fit the wheel with scissors at extreme steering positions?
perfeckt tryes when needed and lower drag
You need the wheel covers to seal to the rim both sides or all you have is an impeller air pump
I’ve made a separate video about wheel covers. I tested weather they actually helps or not. And I couldn’t measure any difference. th-cam.com/video/FGg8pffukNE/w-d-xo.html
Saukki - The Velomobile Channel put covers on both sides an seal to rim have a hole for valve and tape it and you will have a different result, 50kph is 5watts approximately each wheel
wie wäre es mit Haifischhautfolie? für die Aerodynamik
Great!!!
Using a schlumpfdrive instead of chainrings should enhance your speed and power aswell...!
Taitaa tulla intervalleja velolla? paino kun tuntuu mäissä.. vaikka kuorma keskimäärin on pystypyörää alempi. Katselin velokisaa ja nakut veteli hyvin mukana katuradalla.
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Aerodynamic skull also helps.
I just got a sinner mango.
Ride it 500 km in 2 weeks, but it's no faster than the road bike I've ever ridden.
Do I have to spend how time with it?
Can you show us how to make a velomobile more safe on the street?
Hmm.. good idea. Let’s see if I come up with something. 🤔
Saukki You can clean the visor, protect the visor from rain, add extra lights and reflective tape and replace the front shock absorbers with harder ones. This guy even installed a seat belt in his evo r:
th-cam.com/video/Q6-a6_rWFq8/w-d-xo.html
Improve visibility!
Eye-catching colours etc and good lighting
you have to send me his measurements to put together a template to try to make a fiber here
Saukki do you ever think road bike gears would be a good idea for a velomobile? I feel like mountain bike gears are very heavy and relatively slow because they are overbuilt to withstand heavy abuse and terrible conditions, plus the gaps between the gears are usually fairly large even when the system is designed to use multiple chainrings. Plus there is some (possibly placebo) 'slowness' I feel to the whole shimano MTB system vs my campagnolo road system. It might be partly to do with how smooth the shifting is on the campag system. I don't have a velo but it seems to me like a two chainring road drivetrain with a 10 speed 12-29t cassette like my road bike would be lighter and more efficient and well suited for the roads in your part of Finland.
I do actually have Sram 12-28 casette which I believe is road casette. It works well around here. I usually only use the largest chainring at the front, but on more hilly area you really need all the gear range you have. So I don’t see any reason to upgrade to road bike drivetrain. Besides in a velomobile you can’t use road bike sifter levers anyway, so you still need mtb levers.
And by the way I have 3x10 speed gears. If you buy new Quest, it has 3x11. My upcoming Quattrovelo will have 1x11 + mountaindrive.
@@TheVelomobileChannel all good points, plus I guess weight doesn't matter too much. I'd love to see a video where we can see the shifts and the type of hills that require you to use different chainrings. You could take off the cover for the derailleur and put a camera there and talk through what it's like to ride. Also I'm sure I've commented this before but I'd love to see you ride somewhere as far away as possible, camp and then ride back the next day, would be a really interesting subject to go further than you can on a regular bike. It didn't seem too hard for you to do your long ride back to Kalvia. Love the recent videos.
@@TheVelomobileChannel I actually can't wait to see the QV on your channel
Hi Saukki. Can you tell me the brand of the light you have on the top of your hood? I think the white and red light are on the same.
Thank you.
It's Topeak HeadLux
Saukki, can you install an electrical assistance kit in the velomobile?
Yes you can. But a leagal e-assist doesn’t make your velomobile any faster. Exept when climbing hills.
@@TheVelomobileChannel Thanks, Saukki :) I was just wondering because I would rather have this type of velomobile than a Pebl but I would still like to rig it out with an electric motor for daily commuting.
This thing is bacically built like an sailplane and we wax our planes so we can get an 100% even and smoth surface wich actually makes an hell of an difrenze
Where can you get the wheel covers? Thanks
At least velomobile manufacturers should have those on stock. Try asking velomobiel.nl. en.velomobiel.nl/onderdelen/
Hey, Saukki, I really have enjoyed your videos. I would really like to try a velomobile some day. I am in NW Louisiana USA and our summer temperatures regularly get to high 90 range and humidity 60-80%. That’s probably too hot for a velomobile then. I got an Azub trike last June and really have enjoyed it. Would a faring help on a regular trike.?
Alatko joskus tekee tälläkin kielellä videoita?😊
Tuskin tälle omalle kanavalle. Katsojista alle 10% on suomenkielisiä. Mutta jotain yhteistyövideoita vois joskus tehdä lisää suomenkielisten kanavien kanssa.
Oikei.
@@TheVelomobileChannel tee yhteistyövideo Tapio T:n kanssa
what is the price
Price for what? Some of the things mentioned on the video are completely free.
Does those velomobiles got parking brake or something?
Yes they do. This one doesn't have a separate parking brake. This one got a lever with you can lock the front brakes.
A body actually isn't optimal in terms of aero, the dimpled surface of a golfball would be the best formula for the velomobile.
Wheelcovers: A guy in the german velomobilforum testet wheelcovers and he find out that a wheelcover only at one side is a little more inefficient than no wheelcovers at all. But you can´t put wheelcover at both sides because of the cooling of the brakes. So no wheelcovers at all.
Hmm.. interesting 🤔
Rear wheel has covers both side. So that should be more efficient, right?
Yes. Look here: www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/radabdeckungen-radkappen-stoff-oder-carbon-oder.38422/page-5#post-713162 He measured the time that a spinning wheel needs from 50 kph to 10 kph. "Offen" means "without wheelcovers" "verkl." = "with whellcovers at both sides". Two posts further: "Bei der Messung mit nur einseitiger Folie muss irgend was schief gelaufen sein, die Werte sind mit etwa 80 s extrem schlecht?" = "Measuring the one-side-coverd wheel there must have gone something wrong. Values are extremely bad (80 s vs approx. 100 s)"
And wheelcovers made of textile are useless as well.
you only need air cooling for drum brakes, because they tend to overheat on long downhill descents.
About wheels, from the road bicycling world, the more important is that the tires are just a little bit wider than the rims, and the tire+rim ensemble have a water drop shape to be more aerodynamic, the rim also should be a little elongated.
But i don't know how this would work inside a covered wheel because the airflow is different from a normal bike.
I would add a electric bicycle motor kit with many batteries...
Send a Velomobile here to Brazil so I do not have any
The engine makes it faster. Eat better , and work out