Bicycles & Bicycle links

I have always had bicycles... haven't we all? Of late has been an interest in recumbent bicycles. If this page seems biased in favor of recumbents, well, it is! I hope these links are of some use to you. - john

INTERESTING BIKE LINKS (these are here until I have enough of a topic to qualify it for it's own category
• A cheap and bright bike light design
• Making Bike Lights
• Making ultralight Plastazote foam wheel disc - from the MARS group
• Other links for making Wheel Disks
• Articles by Sheldon Brown and Others
• Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Web Ring
• Laundry List 'o links
• Josh Putnam's Cycling Pages
• Bicycle Headlight Links
• Mike Bentley's Mega Bicycle Links
• Myra VanInwegen's Bike Articles
• alex wetmore's bicycle pages
• Bicycling Life
• Tri-County Recumbent riders
• DIY Lighting Rig for a Road Bike
• 20W Home made bike light for under $30 US!
• Hi-po digital bike light controllers
• The Fat Hippy's bike homemadelights
• Trevor Ho's homemade bike lights
• Complete Wheel Building Instructions

BICYCLE FRAMEBUILDING
• Bronze Welding for Lugless Bicycle Frames
• Glossary of Framebuilding Terms
• Framebuilders mailing list (has online archives)
• Fillet Brazing - some great pics!
• Post describing frame building
• The Brazing Book Online
• Steph Monfrey's framebuilding site
• RickValbuena

RECUMBENT BICYCLES
• Recumbent MessageBoard
• Bents FAQ page
• FAQ for Recumbent Bikes from IHPVA site
DIY (HOMEBUILT) LINKS
• Steering Geometry: What is Trail?
• Recumbent Cycle Component Design & Construction - an incredibly long list of links
• Framebuilding & Misc Links Another long (also useful list!)
• Recumbent Links - and yet another!
• MARS Group Projects Page
• Some thoughts & links on building Recumbent Seats - from IHPVA site
• Steve's Recumbent Project - Seat Detail
• Make your own BIG sprockets!
• Making an HPV Jackshaft (Intermediary gear)
• WISIL's R&D (projects) page
• Making a Chain Management Idler (From WISIL)
• Recumbent Builder's Corner, from IHPVA
• Closed Loop Steering
• Under Seat Steering Designs


PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE THEIR OWN
• Beng's 'Bent
• Mike Channon's Homebuilts
• Timothy Lipetz's NoWeldRecumbent
• Ian's Homebuilt
• Gary King's A Home-built recumbent diary from the HUFF newsletter
• Gary King's HomePage
• Timothy Smith's Recumbent Cycle Projects
• Don Boose builds an EconoBent
• Marvin Bender's LWB 'bent
• Richard Hoads' DIY LWB 'bent
• Kent Peterson's "William Burroughs" Recumbent
• Dave Barret's ECONBENT saga
• LWB homebuilt recumbent
• Hugh Currin's
• William F. Dudley Jr's Recumbent
• Paul Keen's Recumbent
• Rickey M. Horwitz's Build Your Own Recumbent Trike
• Jim Gallant's Homebuilt HPV Stuff - great details & pics over many pages
• Barnett Williams' Recumbent Page
• Benthombuilders on MSN


RECUMBENT PLANS
• Benttech Bikes
• Optimild plans by Barnett Williams
• NoWeldRecumbent
• EconBent Plans - available again, from Cyclogical Recumbent Bicycles in MN, USA!
• LWB plans similar to Easy Racers bikes
• More LWB plans


COMMERCIAL (MANUFACTURERS)
• Masa Slingshot (no longer made)
• Lightning Cycle Dynamics, Inc. - make the P38 Lightning


RECUMBENT BICYCLE GROUPS
• Tri-County Recumbent Riders
• MARS - Metro Area Recumbent Society
• WISIL HPVers - WISconsin and ILlinois & Group
• Tasmanian HPV Enthusiast Club


RECUMBENT HUMOR (believe it or not)
• Ride Streamlined - a "Wear Sunscreen" parody