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Thank you for your visit and we hope you enjoy the waterbiking fun!
Leo

 

BIKING THE OCEAN 2008
A four person waterbike will cross the Atlanic Ocean in summer 2008 from New York to Amsterdam. A great challenge! Look up latest news, technical details about the waterbike and interesting pictures at http://www.bikingtheocean.nl

Watch film 2:19min: BTO Challenger construction and training
Download: BTO techniek A4.pdf
Download: BTO algemene info.pdf
Download: BTO nieuwsbrief nov.pdf
Download: BTO specificaties boot.pdf
Download: voorblad 01.pdf
Download: Quest 2008 januari.pdf

 

Interesting article:  "Hull design approach for Waterbikes" (22-12-05)

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World Championships 2007, August 17-19: This time they were held in Rostock, Germany. Information: www.hpb-championships.org/2007/

European Championships 2006, July 21-23: in Wackersdorf, Germany: www.hpb-championships.org/2006

International Waterbike Regatta XXVII (IWR2006)
The International Waterbike Regatta in 2006 were held in Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.iwr2006.org

Human Powered Boats
World Championships 2005 HPB - 19-21 August 2005

The World Championships 2005 HPB have been held in Wackersdorf/Bavaria Germany on 19-21 August 2005.

There has been a new European 100m record flying start by:
Alexander Gaebler on "Haiflyke" (Hydrofoil) in 14.42 seconds!
Go to the results

Go to the worldchampionships2005 page.
Rest of the HPV World Championships will be held in Denmark.
Aalborg Liggecykel klub (http://www.hpvklub.dk) and PV-Klub Denmark (http://www.hpv-klub.dk)

24 hours World Guinness Record by L' Ordegno!
Bavisela event Trieste - May 2005
On 6th of May 2005, in Trieste, Trieste Waterbike Team made History with their human powered boat l'Ordegno.
With three peddlers on board they made the "24 hours record attempt without changing the crew" and crushed the previous record! They covered a distance of 176,8 km. Go to 24 hours record


L' Ordegno, 24h for a Guinness!

International Waterbike Regatta XXVI (IWR2005)
19-22 May, 2004, the International Waterbike Regatta, Bremen, Germany.
Go to the IWR2004 article. Visit the website of the organising team: www.iwr2005.de.

Kieler Woche waterbike race - 26/27 June 2004 - June 3rd, 2004
The Kieler Woche is a huge yearly event in Kiel. 26th and 27th of June, 2004, the first Kieler Woche waterbike race is planned.
Teams are invited to register as soon as possible.
Go to Kieler Woche race 2004 zone.

Open German Championships  Human Powered Boats
3rd - 4th of July 2004 - June 2004
- June 3rd, 2004
The championships are being held in Eutin, 3rd and 4th of July, 2004 and organised by HPV Germany..
Go to Eutin 2004 zone.

International Waterbike Regatta XXV (IWR2004) - May 11th, 2004
8th and 8th of May, 2004, the International Waterbike Regatta, Berlin, Germany.
Go to the IWR2004 article. Visit the website of the organising team: www.iwr2004.hf-latte-berlin.de.

A German team, from Hamburg sailed 400 km with their waterbike Clementine to Berlin. They started their journey on April 30th and appear at the starting line of the IWR 2004: 


Clementine, Hamburg
(ref: Technischen Universität Hamburg, Harburg team: Heylige Frawe Latte).

http://www.tine-goes-to-berlin.de (in German)

Human powered boats World Championships 2003
Held in Friedrichshafen
- September 7th, 2003
The International Human Powered Vehicle Championships 2003 were held in Friedrichshafen, Germany, between August 28th and 31st, 2003.
Go to: HPV World Championship 2003 zone

International Waterbike Regatta XXIV (IWR2003) - May 1st, 2003
24th to 27th of April, 2003, the International Waterbike Regatta on the Baldeneysee, Essen, Germany, was cancelled because of a tragic accident. Go to the memorial.
Go to the IWR2003 zone. Visit the website of the organising team: www.iwr2003.de

The Ocean Cycling World of Yvon Le Caer - April 17th, 2003
Proudly we present an overview of his marvellous achievements:
Go to the YLC story.

The Phyxius project, Sweden - April 17th, 2003
At the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, 16 students are working on an impressive attempt...establish a new world record:
Go to the Phyxius story.

European Championships 2002 - July 16th, 2002
On July 13th and 14th, 2002 the HPV Deutschland organised the European Championships in Eutin, Germany. Also this year during the big "Eutiner Wasserspektakel" (www.wasserspektakel.de and www.eutin.de.)
Go to European Championships.

IHPVA Championships 2002 in Brantford - February 24th, 2002
The International Human Powered Vehicle Championships 2002 took take place in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, from  August 5th to August 10th, 2002.
The water speed events - Pinehurst Park - took place on Thursday August 8th.
Go to the photos and results
at the International Human Powered Vehicle Association website - IHPVA

At the Articles..
• A stories about the Af Chapman and story about the Flying Colours are presented.
Go to the Articles

At the Design Topics..
Introduction in design topics. If you have plans to build your own human powered boat this might be interesting for deciding what to design. 
Go to the Design Topics

 

   
 
 
This website is a portal to inform the waterbiking society about human powered boat activities by monthly updates.

 

 

 

 

 

More Human Powered  Boats
At www.HumanPoweredBoats.com an impressive collection of photos is available thanks to Ron Drynan.

More about Human Powered  Vehicles
At the International Human Power Vehicle Association www.ihpva.org.
   

 

 

Information at World of Waterbiking.
Our information will come from people who are involved with this great sport themselves. Please feel free to submit articles yourself. Your adventure stories and news are most welcome! Events, Building of your own human powered boat, Teams and everything else that is related to this sport you can send.
If you are interested, send us an e-mail. .

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