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1 December 2009
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Interbike 2009    
21 September 2009
Warren is going to Interbike 2009, which this year wil be held September 21st - 25th, and will 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,
Indy Fest HPRA racing weekend - April 25-26    
4 February 2009

The first HPRA recumbent bicycle races of 2009.  Gas prices are cheap. No excuses!



Indy Fest HPRA racing weekend brochure

English Cycles Lowracer    
1 February 2009
Rob English has started his own company called English Cycles, and is now building lowracers and other custom bicycles. His FWD lowracer is partially based on his hatchi design, and has a 700C rear wheel, and 26" front wheel.
Ford Human Powered Challenge    
31 January 2009
Friday July 17, Saturday July 18,  Sunday July 19, 2009

World's fastest streamlined recumbent bicycles try for One-Hour and Six Hour world records on 5-mile (8 km) oval.  General competition for all cyclists including 200-meter sprints, One-Hour time trials, 1/4 mile drag races, Kilometer Race, Hill Climb, Coast-Down and Road races.  This event is open to all racers.

See the Official Event web site for more information

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