Pictures of your recumbent

[a.twiddler]

A delta trike can stand on its rear end when parked. It used to be one of Hase trikes' advertising features. Mine is a Sinner, but it can do the same thing, so I suspect most recumbent deltas can. It takes up less floor space than a bike in the garage.

[[XAP]Bob]

And whilst I don't at the moment... I have stored the windcheetah on it's back wheel as well... The seat stuck out a fair way though.

[Stradageek]

Sorry if this has been posted before but there is no competition when it comes to the most beautiful recumbent ever made.

Please can someone give it to me

[Cowsham]

Sorry if this has been posted before but there is no competition when it comes to the most beautiful recumbent ever made.


zockra.jpg

Please can someone give it to me

Aye that's a nice thing -- I'll have one too please.

[[XAP]Bob]

Sorry if this has been posted before but there is no competition when it comes to the most beautiful recumbent ever made.


zockra.jpg

Please can someone give it to me

Lovely - not that much of a fan of superman bars personally, but I might tolerate them there.
I imagine there is is some fierce torque steer to deal with on all the python style designs.

[a.twiddler]

And whilst I don't at the moment... I have stored the windcheetah on it's back wheel as well... The seat stuck out a fair way though.

That's one issue with recumbents. Also, if a near-horizontal surface appears in my garage, it risks items accumulating on it, at least until I decide to go out on it!

[[XAP]Bob]

It's only the bottom of the seat which classifies as an "accumulation zone"...
I'm trying to be more disciplined in my garage.

[pjclinch]

Sorry if this has been posted before but there is no competition when it comes to the most beautiful recumbent ever made.


zockra.jpg

Please can someone give it to me

I'll call your "no competition" and raise you a Varna Diablo, with none of that ugly front wheel drive business on show

[[XAP]Bob]

Could also submit the velotilt...

https://gearjunkie.com/biking/velotilt

[a.twiddler]

Could also submit the velotilt...

https://gearjunkie.com/biking/velotilt

Last heard of in 2015?

While human powered tilting trikes come to the surface of our consciousness from time to time they are actually a thing in the powered 2/3 wheeler world, a production item rather than prototypes or privately funded one offs. We could hope for some spill over of that technology, but it would take a daring producer to take the risk alongside their normal run of trikes to start something off. With the recumbent industry being such a low volume and precarious entity, it wouldn't take much for a manufacturer to over extend themselves and go under in these straightened times. It looks like it's down to men in sheds to come up with the next innovation, though we can't all be Mike Burrows, unfortunately.

[[XAP]Bob]

Oh I agree - I'm intrigued by the concept still, partlly because I wonder how much balance it would need..

[Milfred Cubicle]

Thanks for the replies folks.

A velomobile...I'd love one, but cannot justify the price to myself.
I'm looking more towards the 'stick bike' design as my aesthetic ideal...and yet they seem to be falling out of favour.
I suppose the answer is I should find myself some design software and a brave framebuilder. If the result looks like a dog's breakfast, I can only blame myself!

[Grldtnr]

There are plans readily avalible for self build recumbents,, a "Stick" self build is relatively easy, as a donor frame you could look to many 20" wheeled shopper bikes, attach a boom to the head, and modify the handlebars, fashion a seat out of ply, or any such, and Roberta's your transgender uncle/ Aunt !
Many folders lend themselves to this treatment, and wouldn't be mourned.once you've done that ,then you could get serious.

[a.twiddler]

And now for something a bit more mundane...
A HPV Spirit with cockpit style bars rather than the narrow jobbies it came with. The same pic is on the "Recumbent for Climbing" thread.
Since I already had the memory stick plugged in, I thought I ought to put it on here too.

Just as a change from all the exotica.

[rikwilliams]

A new Pelso Racer for heading into the City.



Here's a parts list and photo gallery for anyone considering a similar high-racer / 'super commuter' build.