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FWD Z frame CF Gravel Bike    
25 June 2021
The highracer recumbent that I built in 2010 has been reincarnated as a Dual 26" FWD bike with disk brakes and fat tires to be better on gravel and rough chip seal roads. Over the years this bike has morphed from the original dual 700C highracer to the Z frame highracer, and now to this FWD Z frame CF gravel-ish highracer.
Remembering David Gordon Wilson    
24 September 2019

David Gordon Wilson, who was one of the creators of the modern recumbent bicycle, co-author of Bicycling Science, and edited the IHPVA’s Human Power technical journal, passed May 2, 2019, at the age of 91. Michael Eliasohn has written an article remembering David and his life-long accomplishments, which is available here
Bacchetta Giro Dual 20    
15 February 2019
Many years ago Mike Kring gave me a Bacchetta Giro frame, front fork and seat. The frame needed some work. This year I decided to fix the frame and build up the bike using as many parts bin parts as possible. I decided to use 20 inch wheels and added a disk brake to the front fork. Here's the bike build blog
WHPSC at Battle Mountain 2018    
19 July 2018

During the week of September 10th through 15th 2018, cyclists, engineers and enthusiasts from around the world will again gather in the Nevada desert to break human powered speed records.  The attempts will be held on State Route 305 outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

In 2016, the overall speed record was set at 89.59 MPH(144.17 KPH), by Todd Reichert of Team Aerovelo.

See more at the WHPSC at Battle Mountain site!
Barracuda Racing Trike 1.0    
25 May 2018
Over the past two years I had been considering building a trike. A carbon fiber racing trike was designed. I decided to build a mostly steel version first using existing parts to get the geometry and steering right before committing it to carbon fiber. 
The trike is now built but will need a summer of testing to see what needs to be tweaked.  Here's the build blog. These two trike pages also explain the whys and hows of trike building.
Battle Mountain 2017    
6 June 2017

During the week of September 11th through September 16th 2017, cyclists, engineers and enthusiasts from around the world gathered in the dry lake beds of the Nevada desert in a quest to break the human-powered land speed record on State Route 305 outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

The In 2016, the overall speed record was set at 89.59 MPH(144.17 KPH), by Todd Reichert of Team Aerovelo.

See more at the WHPSC at Battle Mountain site!
2016 Human Powered Speed Challenge     
9 September 2016

During the week of September 12th through September 17th 2016, cyclists, engineers and enthusiasts from around the world gathered in the dry lake beds of the Nevada desert in a quest to break the human-powered land speed record on State Route 305 outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

During this event the overall speed record was reset to 89.59 MPH (144.17 KPH), by Todd Reichert of Team Aerovelo.

See the full results, pictures and stories at the WHPSC at Battle Mountain site!
Warren on the Laid Back Bike Report    
31 August 2016

Please join us on September 11th at 2 pm Eastern, when Gary Solomon and the Laid Back Bike Report panel will have a live video chat with special guest Warren Beauchamp. Topics will include my quest for human powered recumbent speed, recumbent building projects, what goes into making a racing recumbent bike, a history of the recumbents.com website, and other exciting topics. In the same broadcast Gary will be speaking with Charles Coyne from the Recumbent Cycle-Con 2016 and Julie Keating from the Chicagoland Unconventional Bicycle Expo (CUBE) 2016.

 

You can watch the show on the above viewer or click here to go directly to YouTube to watch and live chat with Warren and the panel.
Carbon Fiber Dual 700C Quasi-Lowracer    
21 July 2016
The D7CFLR is the culmination of several years of design, building and testing a highly aerodynamic front wheel drive lowracer. This bike is the carbon fiber version of the steel bike I built a few years ago.

Click here for more information about this project

Charles Brown Recumbent Design    
3 December 2015
 

Charles Brown has created four great documents detailing many of the fundamentals and esoterica of recumbent vehicle design. 

  • Bicycle frame design explores different types of recumbent bikes and some good criteria to consider when you are designing a frame.
  • Steering and ride details what makes a recumbent bike handle well.
  • Air drag formula provides methods to determine and reduce the air drag of unfaired recumbent vehicles.
  • Putting It All Together takes the concepts discussed in the previous articles and summarizes them

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