swb recumbent plans

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:19:38 -0000, "Gary Teale" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi

I posted this on a recumbent ng but there are obviously recumbent cyclists
here.

Can anyone direct me to design plans for a tried and tested swb recumbent, i
have found a few promising ones but i want to try and get it right first
time.

heh..interesting line of thinking there, I can appreciate where you're
coming from. After about a year from the first hack bike being ripped
apart I finally finished my swb. I looked, listened, test rode, read
internet homebuild sites[pays homage to those over the pond] and did
all that again, with a view to getting it right first time. And I did
get it right to a degree, within the limitations of the materials and
tools I was working with. It looks a bit of a mess [exposed welds,
brazing and plywood seat] but It's rideable, but I'm already looking
at a Mk11 frame. Reading what others have written and done, it almost
seems like par for the course - you build then you build again, and if
you're really psychologically unstable you keep on building. There are
always imporvements, and some of those you won't know until you get
the thing out on the road. But hopefully such improvements won't
involve any major new/re-welding.

I didn't go by plans btw, just had an idea of the basic style and went
from there. I was always going to use donor frames and not new
material.

Good luck anyway, hope you do it.

Garry

Quoted message said:

thanks

Gary

Gary Teale said:

Can anyone direct me to design plans for a tried and tested swb recumbent, i
have found a few promising ones but i want to try and get it right first
time.

I don't have links to any specific plans, but I recommend getting a copy
of "So You Want to Build a Recumbent" from the BHPC:
<URL:http://bhpc.org.uk/>

You might also benefit from going along to a few BHPC events and
chatting to people who've already built bikes and made mistakes that you
can learn from.

And finally I recommend reading "The Recumbent Bicycle" by Gunnar Fehlau
before you start:
<URL:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1892590581/qid=1111178271/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-7384604-2060640>
<http://tinyurl.com/4rpq9>

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Couldn't find the link at first, but you might like to check out this
guy, Mark Stonich, from the United States, who's an interesting bloke
in the area of recumbent design, particularly in relation to steering
and 'handling'. He prefers lwb/mwb recumbents, but his ideas are also
applicable to swb. He put me right on why my original steering system
was causing the bike to dangerously unstable.

http://bikesmithdesign.com/

And you also might to check out this web-based forum, that has a small
homebuilders section. It's good.

http://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/

Garry

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:19:38 -0000, "Gary Teale" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Hi

I posted this on a recumbent ng but there are obviously recumbent cyclists
here.

Can anyone direct me to design plans for a tried and tested swb recumbent, i
have found a few promising ones but i want to try and get it right first
time.

heh..interesting line of thinking there, I can appreciate where you're
coming from. After about a year from the first hack bike being ripped
apart I finally finished my swb. I looked, listened, test rode, read
internet homebuild sites[pays homage to those over the pond] and did
all that again, with a view to getting it right first time. And I did
get it right to a degree, within the limitations of the materials and
tools I was working with. It looks a bit of a mess [exposed welds,
brazing and plywood seat] but It's rideable, but I'm already looking
at a Mk11 frame. Reading what others have written and done, it almost
seems like par for the course - you build then you build again, and if
you're really psychologically unstable you keep on building. There are
always imporvements, and some of those you won't know until you get
the thing out on the road. But hopefully such improvements won't
involve any major new/re-welding.

I didn't go by plans btw, just had an idea of the basic style and went
from there. I was always going to use donor frames and not new
material.

Good luck anyway, hope you do it.

Garry

Quoted message said:

thanks

Gary

in message <[email hidden]>, Gary Teale

(') said:

I posted this on a recumbent ng but there are obviously recumbent
cyclists here.

Can anyone direct me to design plans for a tried and tested swb
recumbent, i have found a few promising ones but i want to try and get
it right first time.

The Atomic Zombie book has (typically) rather ratty plans for one, but
it has an engagingly low-tech attitude to bike building which makes
anything seem feasible. Or the Dutch Speed Bike people make a kit.

<URL:http://www.atomiczombie.com/!koolkat.htm>
<URL:http://www.dutchbikes.nl/uk.htm>

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;; For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth
;; knowledge increaseth sorrow.." - Ecclesiastes 1:18

Gary Teale said:

Hi

I posted this on a recumbent ng but there are obviously recumbent cyclists
here.

Can anyone direct me to design plans for a tried and tested swb recumbent, i
have found a few promising ones but i want to try and get it right first
time.

Try http://hpvklub.dk/pdf/hhs_One.pdf. I never got round to building
one, I went for the Dutch Speedbike kit instead. Looks interesting though.

Peter