Recumbent News

<p>This bike lingered in my memories for almost 20 years, and I just found pictures of it again <a href="http://oli-roadworks.blogspot.com/2012/01/old-days-part-five.html">here</a>. Canadian rider Steve Bauer rode this bike in the 1993 Ghent-Wevelgem and Paris-Roubaix. The extremely laid-back seat tube angle and correspondingly long chain stays were meant to give an almost recumbent position for muscling the gears against the saddle&#8217;s backrest, with less weight being supported by the rider&#8217;s back and arms. Apparently Bauer finished 21st at Roubaix, but in the end he decided that the bike design was a net negative. I&#8217;d bet money that this bike wouldn&#8217;t pass a UCI inspection nowadays. I remember reading in a magazine at the time that Eddy Merckx was nonplussed, simply explaining that his company built the bike as requested by the Motorola team.</p> <p>The following year Andre Tchmil won Paris-Roubaix with a Rock Shox fork bolted onto an otherwise standard Merckx frame.</p> <p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eLIzFsL_AH4/TwjqNX43iFI/AAAAAAAAMBw/dP5RSi8wc8Y/s1600/318607_10150486074453035_224451888034_10590648_13656084_n.jpg" width="400" alt="318607_10150486074453035_224451888034_10590648_13656084_n.jpg"></p> <p>Above at Ghent-Wevelgem; below at Paris-Roubaix with a Rock Shox fork.</p> <p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ec-ujr3zKsk/TwjrHJCarjI/AAAAAAAAMB8/LX5L4-0aU4I/s1600/375329_10150486075498035_224451888034_10590653_1857294450_n.jpg" width="400" alt="375329_10150486075498035_224451888034_10590653_1857294450_n.jpg"></p>

by Larry Varney Co-Editor Have you ever looked at something, a car, a house, a person, and thought: no, that’s not for me. That’s not my style, that’s out of my league, that’s more than I want or need, and so on. And yet, when you get closer, when you drive it, when you walk [...]

Another Sebring 24 Hour Challenge… Another record smashing performance. Or in this case… SEVERAL! Jim Verheul piloted a Bacchetta Carbon Aero 2.0 to a course record 523.9 miles in the 24 hour drafting category. Jacquie Hafner (also on a Carbon Aero 2.0) set the women’s 24 hour drafting record with a 516 mile run that [...]

by Larry Varney Co-Editor On most of my bikes and trikes I’ll have a rear rack mounted – on one I have an underseat rack, too – so you would be justified in thinking that I just have to have a way of carrying lots of things when I ride. Yes, I could cut back, [...]

I was pretty much amazed when I found this tutorial of how to build a recumbent trike from bamboo poles. As same as when I saw another tutorial about making a recumbent seat from plywood, which was not onlyabout the seat itself but also about how to make a steam machine at home. Quite impressive. [...]

This trike was made by a famous Czech recumbent homebuilder Jirka Hebeda who has built several recumbent bikes already and is working on some others. You can read more about the process of building it and how it rides here under. SnowZombie is a 20/26 delta trike with a 2-wheel drive. It was created to [...]

I have found this picture of a very old recumbent trike on the blog called: Tricycle Fetish Blog. It is not a blog about trikes as we know them (or better, which are so normal for us) but a blog about tricycles for children use or for use as a toy. One reader is asking [...]

by Larry Varney Co-Editor I have some interests that border on fetishes – lights, folding, and carrying things. Seldom have I actually ridden in the dark, but there’s always the thought that I might, which somewhat explains why I am always on the lookout for some new head and tail lights. I have a couple [...]

By Margaret Loose Staff Writer Now before you feel the need to point out that this is a cycling website, where people talk to each other about recumbent bikes and trikes, let me make you a promise: I’m getting there. But to start let us consider why I suspect that my car is actually a [...]

By BRYAN J. BALL Managing Editor It’s been a few months since we reviewed the Linear Roadster short wheelbase and just a few weeks since we awarded it our 2011 Bike of the Year award. So why the heck are we talking about it again? Because they went and made another version! Linear has always [...]