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Home built recumbents?
I had the chance to test ride a easy racer recumbent while shopping
for a new ride the other day. I had never riden a bent before but I loved it! But my wallet can't afford the price tag of the ones I have seen. But I could afford plans to build one at home. Has anyone ever built a bent at home from plans they got over the net? If so how did it work out? I am fairly mechanically inclined (have rebuilt a couple of cars in the past) and I think that I could handle the "building" of a bent. Ken |
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live-free wrote:
I had the chance to test ride a easy racer recumbent while shopping for a new ride the other day. I had never riden a bent before but I loved it! But my wallet can't afford the price tag of the ones I have seen. But I could afford plans to build one at home. Has anyone ever built a bent at home from plans they got over the net? If so how did it work out? I am fairly mechanically inclined (have rebuilt a couple of cars in the past) and I think that I could handle the "building" of a bent. The least expensive places to find donor tubing and components are bike shop dumpsters, curbside trash, and thrift stores. The greatest challenge may be the seat, as many manufacturers spend as much building the seat as they do for the frame, and homebuilt seat are often less than satisfactory. Links posted on a recent thread: http://www.ihpva.org/Builders/ http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/ http://www.recumbents.com/mars/pages/proj/spol/Tom/projspolTom1.html http://www.mile43.com/peterson/weezlow.htm http://home1.gte.net/kfics/bikes.htm http://www.recumbentcyclistnews.com/pdf/RCN.Homebuilder.pdf. -- Tom Sherman |
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live-free wrote:
I had the chance to test ride a easy racer recumbent while shopping for a new ride the other day. I had never riden a bent before but I loved it! But my wallet can't afford the price tag of the ones I have seen. But I could afford plans to build one at home. Has anyone ever built a bent at home from plans they got over the net? If so how did it work out? I am fairly mechanically inclined (have rebuilt a couple of cars in the past) and I think that I could handle the "building" of a bent. Havent built it yet, but here are the plans. http://members.aol.com/domerie/bentech.htm -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, ca http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 Rule the Empire through force. -- Shogun Tokugawa |
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"Tom Sherman" wrote: (clip) The greatest challenge may be the seat, as many manufacturers spend as much building the seat as they do for the frame, and homebuilt seat are often less than satisfactory.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I ran across a guy a while back with a home-built recumbent. It was obviously home-built--almost on the crude side, but appeared to be very rideable. His seat was an injection molded plastic kitchen chair--the kind that is form-fitting around the butt and back. It appeared to be quite comfortable, and it was certainly very light. |
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I had the chance to test ride a easy racer recumbent while shopping for a new ride the other day. I had never riden a bent before but I loved it! But my wallet can't afford the price tag of the ones I have seen. But I could afford plans to build one at home. Has anyone ever built a bent at home from plans they got over the net? If so how did it work out? I am fairly mechanically inclined (have rebuilt a couple of cars in the past) and I think that I could handle the "building" of a bent. Ken Easy Racer-ish plans are available: http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/plans/plans1.htm Here's a couple more places to look: Bentrideronline hosts a homebuilders forum: http://www.bentrideronline.com/ http://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...splay.php?f=12 Recumbents.com has lots of resources, particularly within the WISIL and MARS club pages: http://www.recumbents.com/home.asp http://www.recumbents.com/wisil.htm http://www.recumbents.com/mars/ And the IHPVA has many random resources and hosts mailing lists: http://www.ihpva.org/ some are he http://www.ihpva.org/Builders/ A couple friends of mine rode from Portland, Oregon to Boston in 27 riding days, averaging 125 miles per day. One was riding a homebuilt Tour Easy clone. Here's his journal: http://www.ohpv.org/mea/intro.htm .. Jeff |
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live-free wrote: I had the chance to test ride a easy racer recumbent while shopping for a new ride the other day. I had never riden a bent before but I loved it! But my wallet can't afford the price tag of the ones I have seen. But I could afford plans to build one at home. Has anyone ever built a bent at home from plans they got over the net? If so how did it work out? I am fairly mechanically inclined (have rebuilt a couple of cars in the past) and I think that I could handle the "building" of a bent. Ken Another set of plans for a tour-easy clone is at http://home.flash.net/~staudt/bike.htm Steve@LongBeachCA |
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Leo Lichtman wrote:
I ran across a guy a while back with a home-built recumbent. Did he sue your pants off?!? Bill "slow night" S. |
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:37:48 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote: (clip) The greatest challenge may be the seat, as many manufacturers spend as much building the seat as they do for the frame, and homebuilt seat are often less than satisfactory.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I ran across a guy a while back with a home-built recumbent. It was obviously home-built--almost on the crude side, but appeared to be very rideable. His seat was an injection molded plastic kitchen chair--the kind that is form-fitting around the butt and back. It appeared to be quite comfortable, and it was certainly very light. Here's my homemade bike ( http://geocities.com/throwaway888/ ) I commute every day with it and have put at least 11,000 kilometres on it since building it. This winter I'll be adding studded snow tires. Should be fun! |
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:37:48 GMT, "Leo Lichtman" wrote: "Tom Sherman" wrote: (clip) The greatest challenge may be the seat, as many manufacturers spend as much building the seat as they do for the frame, and homebuilt seat are often less than satisfactory.(clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I ran across a guy a while back with a home-built recumbent. It was obviously home-built--almost on the crude side, but appeared to be very rideable. His seat was an injection molded plastic kitchen chair--the kind that is form-fitting around the butt and back. It appeared to be quite comfortable, and it was certainly very light. Here's my homemade bike ( http://geocities.com/throwaway888/ ) I commute every day with it and have put at least 11,000 kilometres on it since building it. This winter I'll be adding studded snow tires. Should be fun! One of the probable reason the bike rides well is it has proper weight distribution. Too many SWB designs make the mistake of having a long boom to minimize foot/wheel interference, which results in the front wheel being too heavily loaded, leading to inferior handling and braking. -- Tom Sherman |
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