See also: Phantom

A two seat open top Fantom.

Fantom is a velomobile with three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. A velomobile or bicycle car is a Human-powered vehicle, enclosed for protection from weather and collisions It has no front suspension, but has suspension in the rear.

Fantom was never sold as a finished product. Instead it was sold as a set of drawings. The drawings are not exact and should be used as a guide. Hobbex bought the rights to the drawings and have sold it continuously since the 1940s apart from a short break in the 1990s. Over 100,000 copies of the drawing were sold, but few appears to have been completed.

In the 1980s the Fantom was rediscovered by Carl-Georg Rasmussen who built a redesigned version called Leitra. The Leitra is the name of a company and the Velomobile it makes a speedy shielded recumbent Bicycle (or in this case tricycle for use in diverse weather conditions

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• Fantom