Velomobile

I have seen the future of healthy, eco-friendly transportion. It's the Velomobile - an encased human-powered, recumbent trike.

Embraced by degrees in Europe since the end of WWII, the Velomobile is enjoying an encouraging growth in EU sales. Small, smart companies with elegant and efficient designs are beginning to get traction in the marketplace. North Americans (often behind EU and Japanese adoption of consumer product innovation) have little awareness of this solution to many of our New World problems.

Here's what Wiki has to say. Also, check out the a thoughtful paper from Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology, 'The Velomobile as a Vehicle for More Sustainable Transportation'.


'Born to Run' by Bruce Springsteen [excerpt]

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
but there's no place left to hide
Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I don't know when
we're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go
and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us
baby we were born to run