I decided to completely rebuild my corovelo. I liked the way the Australians put the wheel inside to fairing. I have to go and get some heady duty velcro, the sew on kind, for the hood closure. The hood is attached to a tube via zip ties so I can open and close it. Works rather well. I am using nylon twine to hold the hood down until I get my velcro. Haven't tested it with the new hood yet as I just finished it and it is 112f. I'll wait until dark to try it and give it a good test very early tomorrow. It was already faster without the hood than the old design. This will be my touring ride. Come winter time I'll add the bubble to the hood with a sliding window on each side of it.
 
 

Quote from jrob_bent on Jul 28^th, 2018, 12:41pm:

 
Velo Ver. 2 looks good Jerry. How did you form the rounded nose?

I have a lot of extra attention to my corovelo this past few days. A Bicycle Inc. van followed me and when I pulled into Green Valley Park, they did also. Told me how cool it looked and did I know I was going around 30 mph. Hundreds of questions and pictures taken. A woman this morning was driving the opposite direction and slammed on her brakes to take a picture and the car behind her almost rear ended her, then got their cell out and took pictures also. A woman flags me down and then tells me to wait and she comes back out with several people. Now she is arranging for me to bring the corovelo to her son's 8th grade science class. I was headed back home and about 30 high school kids flag me down and wanted pictures and all the usual questions. I let several of the kids sit in the corovelo while their friends took pictures of them. See a huge pickup go by the other direction and I hear tires squealing and big motor revving up. He had done a u-turn and came back to see what the hell that thing was. Sometimes it is hard to ride with people trying to take pictures, wanting to ask questions, and doing some really dangerous things in a motor vehicle. I can imagine the attention a commercially made velo gets. The number one comment besides that is so cool, is, it looks like the space shuttle. I guess I'll name it the Cool Voyager then!

I don't have the money they want for a nice vinyl wrap, so I drew and painted this. The Texas Road Runner.
 

Quote from Tom Nuchols on Aug 7^th, 2018, 5:05pm:

 
He is with the roadies trying to catch the Road Runner!

Quote from jrob_bent on Aug 11^th, 2018, 9:52pm:

Who makes these reflectors?  I have been looking for super bright ones, all colors, especially black ones that reflect brightly white at night.
 

I get mine at Home Depot and Lowe's.
 
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-2-25-in-Safety-Tape/3057237
 
 
Quote from Action Lad on Aug 12^th, 2018, 7:12am:

Rode the corovelo to Lowe's yesterday. While inside some yahoo cut the zip tie holding my PVC vertical deck support. I hope he fells good about it. I fixed that, closed off the foot holes, fixed a bulge in the right side, and installed the summer skirt this morning. I decide to cut the back off the shirt that was touching the turtle deck. Works better. These mods really helped the speed. I took it for a 6 mile test ride and caught and passed a roadie at 26 mph just north of Starnes on Smithfield Rd. About a block after I passed the roadie i got caught at a traffic light at Starnes. The roadie rides up all excited saying, darn, that thing is fast. He thought I might have an electric motor in it. Nope, just me.
 
The old head sticking out the top of the corovelo is mine in the picute.