Many recumbent cyclists are content just cruising along and smelling the flowers. 

But maybe you are a bit of a malcontent. 
A rebel without a cause. 
Maybe you want to ride fast.
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1. The AeroVelo / University of Toronto team members won the $250,000 Sikorsky prize for Human Powered helicopter flight.
2. Maria Leijerstam became the first person to pedal to the South Pole. She rode a custom ICE recumbent trike.
3. Maria Parker won the RAAM in the female recumbent category after making an incredible comeback. She was also fastest female overall.
4. Sebastiaan Bowier of the Delft team set a new WHPSC Battle Mountain 200M world record of 83.13 mph.
5. Team Cieo broke the Tandem One Hour record by riding 51.582 miles at the Dekra track.
6. Wil Baselmans set a 79.18 mph 200M personal best at Battle Mountain in the VeloX3
7. Sebastiaan Bowier set an unofficial unfaired stock one hour distance of 32.023 miles at RDW.
8. Gareth Hanks set a 45.857 mile one hour world record in the single rider trike category.
9. Graeme Obree's prone streamliner 200M record attempts for bringing media attention to the human powered speed championships.
10. Keita Saito of Tokyo Tech's team Meister won the 2013 Japan International Birdman Rally with a flight distance of over 20 kilometers.

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The AeroVelo team, consisting of University of Toronto students and Alumni has won the $250,000 Sikorsky prize for a Human Powered Helicopter that can hover at 10 feet (3 meters) for longer than 1 minute while staying in a 50 foot circle. After many setbacks and a few crashes they accomplishished this goal on June 13th, 2013.  To attain this feat, Todd Reichert had to generate 1200 watts to get the helicopter to up to 3 Meters, hover for a minute at 800 watts, then generate 600 watts to lower the 'copter to the ground. It is an amazing feat both technologically and physically. Both the AeroVelo and U of Maryland team have been very close to this goal for the past year and both were very close to winning. The U of T team has been particpating in HPRA races and the Battle Mountain speed event for several years, and is becoming impressively refined. See more here

In general it seems like manufacturers are raising their prices to keep up with inflation and cutting bike and trike models that do not sell as well. Most manufacturers are now offering e-assist options. Though trikes are selling well, the trike manufacturers are no longer expanding, and most are reducing their model choices. There is a gradual trend toward "big wheel" recumbent bikes. These higher bikes seem to work well for everyone except for the speed hungry recumbent lowracer crowd. 

Full coverage of the Battle Mountain event here