To share experiences by Søren Flensted Möller, Denmark, Velostrada.dk
You can share your experiences in a split second on various social media, but nothing surpasses to meet someone with similar interests in real life. However, this is not always easy if your interest is not so widespread that there are no others right in your immediate area who share the same interest. In my younger days, I had a motorcycle that was not produceinlarge numbers, which meant that to meet others I had to drive long distances to attend meetings where this motorcycle model and owner participated.Some years later I found out that there was something called velomobile, or the truth was that I searched the web for a 3-wheel bike with a faring. The word Cabin Bikes appeared. This word led me to the well-known person-inside velomobile, Carl-George Rasmussen, back then I didn't know who he was. A mail was written, a weekend I took off on my two wheel ‘upright bicycle’ to ride 250 kilometers to see what a Leitra was. To make the story shorter, a Leitra velomobile was ordered. It took about nine months before I could get it. It then meant that in those nine months, I could look for information on what velomobiles were and where they were. Back then, in 2009–2010 there was not so much online information about who owned a velomobile, luckily, I found the Danish club for recumbents. While waiting for my Leitra, I bought a used recumbent that my local bicycle dealer had and would like to sell this one. Then I could train to be a ‘recumbent cyclist’ and participate in reclining bicycle events here in Denmark. Back then, there were about 200 members of this club. Meetings, championships were organized, the club even before I joined organized world championships for recumbent bikes. When I got my Leitra, I participated in the Danish championships for recumbents, maybe not with
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My Leitra with C.G. Rasmussen.
The totally damaged Leitra.
On my way home from Danish championships for recumbent bikes.
So for me, it was Christmas Eve already November 24, 2012, when I got my Strada.
