Greg Gross participates in the Texas Time Trials |
October 10th, 2007 |  |
M5 Titanium Carbon Low Racer beats records | ||
 Last week Greg Gross participated in a 4-man recumbent only team in the Texas Time Trials, an event that draws riders from all over the country. It is a tough course: 20 mile loops done 25 times for a distance of 500 miles total. The course has 1000 feet of climbing for each loop. Greg rode the M5 TiCa Low Racer that he purchased from Garrie Hill. On his first lap, he beated the standing lap time record by 1m15s, beating the previous record of 51:30. He was also told he had an unofficial record of most consecutive loops completed in under an hour, with 5 of his 6 laps. Lap times were 50:15, 52, 57, 55, 57, and 1:03.Below the a link to the internet site of The Texas Time Trials. | ||
Paris-Brest-Paris time by Tijmen Hoeve |
October 9th, 2007 | |
| Tijmen Hoeve passed the finish in 57 hours and 52 minutes. 76th place overall, first unfaired recumbent. Only two fully faired Quests were faster. | ||
M5 at Salon du Cycle in Paris |
September 24th, 2007 | |
From September 29th to October 2nd | ||
 Lots of visitors at our stand. Not only attention for our recumbents, but also for the presentation of the M5 Light Weight products. Also check the internetsite of Salon du Cycle 2005 | ||
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M5 crank sets in every day use |
August 19th, 2007 | |
) After the extensive tests in the laboratory, we're now doing the testing "in the field". Several M5 recumbent riders are testing the cranks during a long time and a lot of kilometres. First report from users: Really stiff and light weight and I feel in my feet that it's much lighter... | ||
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New M5 clothing |
August 18th, 2007 | |
) Now available: new M5 clothing. Discreet, yet bright in traffic. Available are Bermuda's, shirts with 3/4 sleeve and bike jacks long sleeve. Our M5 teamshirts are now also available in this colour setting. | ||
Paris-Brest-Paris with M5 Recumbents! |
August 14th, 2007 | |
 During the upcoming Paris-Brest-Paris race from August 20 to 24 2007 a large number of people will participate on an M5 recumbent. During this non-stop monster trip quite a lot of riders will use our latest model, the M5 Carbon High Racer.Participants from our region (Zeeland, the south west of the Netherlands) are Mr. J. Bouman from Goes (age 65 plus) with an M5 City Cruiser/Tail Bag, Perry Stoel from Grijpskerke with an M5 Carbon High Racer/Tail Fairing and Rob Stricker from Zoutelande with an M5 CrMo Shock Proof 559 and Tijmen Hoeven, at the moment living in Zaandam, with an M5 Carbon High Racer/Tail Bag combination. Also worth mentioning is the Australian participant Andrew Heard, who already was preparing for this PBP for three years. During his holiday in England M5 Titanium Shock Proof 451 was stolen ... To compensate his loss a little, we decided to offer him an identical replacement to enable him to participate after all. Other participants are also supported with things like fast wheels and/or Tailfairing to reach a better placement. | ||
Vikingtour 2007 |
August 9th, 2007 | |
Stefan Vanlerberghe on behalf of M5 on a High Racer | ||
) Stefan Vanlerberghe from Belgium did participate for M5 in the Viking Tour 2007 in Norway and did also very good going up the mountains. During the Vikingtour not the whole trip is timed, but only certain parts of it. Unfortunately the parts which are most suitable for recumbents weren't... Nevertheless Stefan managed to get the best out of it, also during steep climbing.Also check Vikingtour.no | ||
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Recent test data confirm that the M5 cranksets are of outstanding quality. |
May 29th, 2007 | |
) A professional racer is able to produce 800 Newton over a period of ten seconds. The cranks have been tested during 6,700,000 cycles with a power of 800 Newton, increased to a full 5,400 Newton! The cranks endured this extreme test superb!Two measurements have been implemented with stretch strips. The positions of them can be seen on the small pictures at the bottom.
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New version carbon tubular rims |
April 13th, 2007 | |
) The T38 and T50 version now have an embedded reinforcement, made from an aluminium extrusion profile. Every spoke has an extra support by an elliptical aluminium bowl shape, entirely embedded in the carbon rim. | ||
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Brake shoe casings further optimized |
March 27th, 2007 | |
) 4.5 grammes, that's the weight of the latest version of our brake shoe casings. Established by lowering the casings. | ||
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