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Bill Irvine's Creations    
25 June 2010

By Michael Eliasohn
When it comes to building human powered vehicles, Bill "Yoda" Irvine likes to keep them simple. They also are unique, and although a home-builder, he's probably built more than some supposed manufacturers. 

The Phoenix, Ariz. resident, during this writer's visit in early October 2009, guessed he had built at least 75 HPVs, and more since, and that he had built his first one about four years earlier. What he builds, he sells. And despite the number, he said, "It is a hobby." Most of the bikes he has built were recumbents.

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2010 Indy Fest HPRA HPV races    
3 May 2010

Tim Hicks takes a corner on his leaning trike during the April 24 & 25th 2010 Indy Fest HPRA HPV races.  Saturday races included the twisty trike race, and on the veoldrome, 200 meter sprints, and a 50 lap race. Sunday's race was a wet 20 lap race at Pioneer park. Click here for results and here for the pictures. 

Florida in February    
1 March 2010

Florida is great for us Northerners in February. Even more fun is some recumbent racing in Florida in February. This February I went to the Florida Challenge HPRA HPV races, and actually won some events. Recumbent races are always a good opportunity to talk about riding and see new bikes. This race was no different, as Florida based Catrike brought their new Catbike to the event. I had the good fortune to ride it, and wrote up a mini-review.

Another huge month at recumbents.com     
1 December 2009
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Interbike 2009    
21 September 2009

Warren went to Interbike 2009, which this year was held September 21st - 25th, and has post daily updates of recumbent related products and information. Daily updates here

New Recumbent Records for 2009    
21 September 2009
World record holdingVarna speedbikes Recumbents.com is the web host for the worlds fastest bikes!
In addition to HPRA recumbent racing events and the WRRA records site, in the past year we have hosted the Michigan One Hour event, where new IHPVA mens (56.295 mph) and womens (52.208 mph) records for one hour were set.
For over 10 years recumbents.com has hosted the WHPSC at Battle Mountain. This year new IHPVA mens (82.819 mph) , womens (75.458 mph) and hand powered (43.673  mph) 200 meter records were set. In addition, we are hosting the web site for the Apeldoorn Recumbent Record Weekend.  At this event in October, the fastest stock class recumbent racers in the world will gather to set new one hour WRRA stock class records.
Performer Goal Build and Review    
26 July 2009

Performer Goal

Performer recumbents have been around for since 1999, and until now they have been content to build recumbent bikes to be sold in the US by distributors like Actionbent and Performance XPR. They are now offering semi-custom bikes directly from the factory.

Performance will paint the bike to your specifications, and you can spec higher or lower end components and accessories.      
Read the full review...

New WRRA one hour unfaired world record    
19 May 2009
 On May 15th, 2009, 26 year old Aurélien Bonneteau set a new WRRA one hour unfaired world record in Bordeaux-Lax, France at the Guy Lapebie indoor velodrome by pedaling 50.529 kilometers (31.32 miles) in one hour. Aurélien was racing an M5 lowracer set up with single speed gearing, both front and rear wheel disks, and a very elliptical chainring. More WRRA Records
Australians set trike speed records    
19 April 2009

On the weekend of 4/12/2009, a contigent of Australian speedbikers descended onto the Lang Lang, Australia race track expressly to break records. And they did just that, setting a new low-altitude single rider tricycle one-hour world record, as well as a host of Australian records.

Read more here...

State of the recumbent industry 2009    
27 February 2009

I updated the recumbent buyers guide. In doing so,  I found the following:

  • Manufacturers have raised their prices in general.
  • Volae has dropped it's prices.
  • Price of a Velokraft NoCom is through the roof, at almost $10,000 !
  • Sun has an interesting new trike, the M3 UAX.
  • Rans has quietly dropped their triangulated F5 Enduro highracer in favor of the stick bike format for the Enduro and models. Also bowing out are the Rocket and Tailwind models.
  • Route-X has no bikes no sell. Hmm.
  • MITE is gone.
  • Several small trike manufacturers in Australia, including Hotmover appear to be gone.
  • Greenspeed must be Reeeally popular, because all I got on their website was "bandwidth exceeded"...
  • Challenge now has a trike, and it looks... Fantastic!
  • Bacchetta has dropped the Agio and the Cafe,

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