{"id":49,"date":"2006-09-21T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-03-02T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:21:50","slug":"visit-to-m5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Visit to M5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Friday before the Rowingbike Championships, I visited Bram\u00a0and\u00a0Ronald\u00a0at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m5-ligfietsen.nl\/site\/EN\" title=\"M5 Recumbents\">M5 Ligfietsen<\/a> (M5 Recumbents) in Middelburg. \u00a0The M5 headquarters is in a beautiful building with a large display area out front. Many of their legendary designs are either hanging on the wall or standing on display tables. Below is the M5 Carbon Low Racer, owner of 8 world records. Details of these records are found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m5-ligfietsen.nl\/site\/EN\/Races_and_records\/Records\" title=\"Records\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/m5_carbon_lowracer.jpg\" alt=\"Carbon Low Racer\" title=\"Carbon Low Racer\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is a fully faired Low Racer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/m5_full_fairing.jpg\" alt=\"Fully faired low racer\" title=\"Fully faired low racer\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M5 had some interesting statistics about these bikes. Pedaling at 250 Watts, one could expect to achieve the following speeds using these various setups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32 km\/h Racing bike (upright)<\/li>\n<li>35 km\/h Racing bike (in the drops)<\/li>\n<li>37 km\/h Time trial bike (aerobars)<\/li>\n<li>43 km\/h Low Racer<\/li>\n<li>47 km\/h Low Racer (with tail fairing)<\/li>\n<li>54 km\/h Low Racer (with full carbon fairing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also on display was this carbon tandem called the Double D. Bram Moens and Bj\u00f6rn Frank rode this bike 52.3 km in one hour at the 2004 Cycle Vision and World Championships event in Lelystad, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/m5_carbon_tandem.jpg\" alt=\"Double D Tandem\" title=\"Double D Tandem\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M5 also produces bicycle components for recumbents and conventional bikes. These M5\u00a0brakes\u00a0are CNC cut from 7075-T6 aluminium. Without brake shoes, they weigh 72 grams. The hubs are also very innovative. By using straight pull spokes, they have entirely done away with the flange.<\/p>\n<table cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/m5_brakes.jpg\" alt=\"M5 Brake\" title=\"M5 Brake\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 2%\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/m5_hubs.jpg\" alt=\"M5 Hub\" title=\"M5 Hub\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I was so impressed with everything I saw at M5 that I arranged to bring back one of their used Cromoly Low Racers for the Bicycle Forest rental collection. You can try it yourself <a href=\"\/m5.php\" title=\"M5 Low Racer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ronald for meeting up with me Sunday night to box up the bike. It made it home safe and sound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Friday before the Rowingbike Championships, I visited Bram\u00a0and\u00a0Ronald\u00a0at\u00a0M5 Ligfietsen (M5 Recumbents) in Middelburg. \u00a0The M5 headquarters is in a beautiful building with a large display area out front. Many of their legendary designs are either hanging on the wall or standing on display tables. Below is the M5 Carbon Low Racer, owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}