Hi Everybody,
we are two creative and passionate venturesome guys –Gabor Ferenczy and Csaba Enyedi from Budapest, Hungary- who are crazy and determined enough to entirely reimagine a popular leisure time activity on lakes, the water biking.
Gabor has a 10 year advertising background as a copywriter and Csaba has an energetics, marketing and sales background.
Gabor came up one sunny day with an idea of setting up a waterbike race around Hungary’s biggest lake, Balaton.
But recently there are waterbikes mostly with dolphin and swan shapes which are not the most suitable ones for this.
So we teamed up to combine our talents and create something really new. Both of us has a lifelong devotion towards water and to walk the red brick road instead of the good old yellow one.
Project Hydrocumbent
We would like to finish a race water bike that’s breathtaking both in design and drive. We named it the ’Hydrocumbent’ built from the words water and the recumbent bike.
The race water bike takes a well-known but till now technically stagnating leisure time activity to a new level. With our model everyone –from the age of 9 to 99- can spend more time on water, organize comfy excursions, or push the pedal to the max, by reaching an average 15-18 km/h with bare calves.
Why we need you
We have a race water bike prototype planned with the students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and developed with a Hungarian ship manufacturer.
Till this moment we injected only private funds into this project and with our passion for this whole initiative and despite all hardships we managed to have this beautiful prototype designed and developed.
But as most trailblazers we also stepped onto unbeaten track and need financial encouragement to finally succeed.
With your generous help we will be able to get from the prototype to a mass production model, test it and and step into the spotlight be it either international water sports exhibitions or lakeside and beach rentals.
Your generosity our gratitude
As we already raised curiosity within and beyond our borders that’s why we have to get from B to C. in completing our dream.
We calculated to collect 40 000 Euros to be able to finalize a mass production model build another one and take them to a wider audience in order to spread the bike.
How will this amount be spent? What are the milestones?
First we have to put our experiences and learnings gained through the prototype testing into practice by finalizing the technical details of the mass production model.
Then we finalize the mass production model and manufacture another model to be able to present them together everywhere.
If we are ready with that we will have to contact and negotiate with future investors, customers in Hungary and foreign countries, as far as possible appearing at international exhibitions, water sport shows in Europe, Asia and the United States depending on costs.
When we reach our financial goal we will launch a marketing campaign by finalizing our website, producing sales materials and advertising the project first online.
Your unique perks with which we will express our gratitude for believing in our project will range from your personal signature printed on the first mass production model, or named after you to inviting you to Hungary for a free ride on one of the race water bike or discount from the selling-price.
If we reach our goal and succeed in collecting the desired amount of money we will accomplish these milestones and involve you in the whole process because you made it possible!
The bright future
We believe that a new type of fun and competitive water sport can reach everybody who loves and cares for nature, who likes biking on the waves as well and who’s a fan of avant-garde design and speed gained by human power.
We believe that the Hydrocumbent race water bike will entertain as many people as possible who choose active relaxation at lakes and seashores all around the globe. The race track is given it’s up to us how we race on it.
If there’s no money but social capital
You can also jump in to push the pedal together! You can also help us reaching our goal by spreading the word and generate hype around the race water bike to involve girls and guys who believe in this idea as well.
Feel free to use Indiegogo’s share tools!
Thanks very much for your attention!