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er tracks than tricycles 20 more wheels introduce more weight and more complexity namely required wheel suspension on uneven surfaces the fourth wheel is of most benefit when going off road 21 when two and sometimes four riders want to ride together in a sociable configuration the four wheel recumbent cycle is a viable option 22 homebuilts edit an example of a home built recumbent trike made from two 24 mtbs as with upright bikes there is a subculture of recumbent builders who design and build home built recumbents 23 often these are assembled of parts from other bikes particularly mountain bikes the frame designs may be as simple as a long steel tube bent into the appropriate shape or as elaborate as hand built carbon fiber frames for many builders the engineering and construction of the bikes is as much of a challenge as riding them folding edit several manufacturers offer folding recumbents to facilitate packing and travelling 24 couplers edit it is possible to add couplers either during manufacturing or as a retrofit so that the frame can be disassembled into smaller pieces to facilitate packing and travel stationary recumbents edit as well as road going recumbent bicycles with wheels stationary versions also exist these are often found in gyms but are also available for home use like a regular stationary exercise bike these stay in one place and the user pedals against some kind of resistance mechanism such as a fan or alternator but in a recumbent position these have the same comfort advantages as road going recumbents stationary recumbents almost always have a fairly upright seat and the pedal crank is lower than the level of the seat the seat is normally adjustable and is adjusted by sliding it along a rail citation needed history edit recumbent bicycle designs date back to the middle of the 19th century several designs were patented around 1900 but these early designs were unsuccessful early recumbents edit recumbents from the 1920s in the velorama recumbent designs of both prone and supine varieties can be traced back to the earliest days of the bicycle before the shape of the bicycle settled down following starley s safety bicycle there was a good deal of experimentation with various arrangements and this included designs which might be considered recumbent although these dated back to the 1860s the first recorded illustration of a recumbent considered as a separate class of bicycle is considered to be in the magazine fliegende blätter of 10 september 1893 this year also saw what is considered the first genuine recumbent the fautenil vélociped patent applications for a number of recumbent designs exist in the late years of the 19th century and there were discussions in the cycling press of the relative merits of different layouts the challand designs of 1897 and the american brown of 1901 are both recognisable as forerunners of today s recumbents the mochet vélo velocar and vélorizontal edit 1945 mochet velocar a four wheeled two seater pedal propelled car called the velocar was built in the 1930s by french inventor and light car builder charles mochet velocars sold well to french buyers who could not afford a motor car possibly because of a poor economy during the great depression the four wheeled velocars were fast but didn t corner well at high speed mochet then experimented with a three wheel design and finally a mould breaking two wheel design based on the vélocar technology the early models of mochet s la bicyclette de l avenir the bicycle of the future the vélo vélocar or v v as the factory referred to them used a 40 mm 1 6 in steel tube single beam frame and 450 x 55 wheels with handlebars over the rider and steering torque transmitted by bevel gears various types of mochet designed derailleur gears were fitted with a single gear for the track models gears were mid mounted using primary and secondary chains the back rest was adjustable on more sporting models to demonstrate the speed of his recumbent bicycle mochet had the design ratified by the uci and uvf and enlisted cyclist francis faure a category 2 racer to ride it in races faure was highly successful defeating many of europe s top cyclists both on the track and in road races and setting new world records at short distances another cyclist paul morand won the paris limoges race in 1933 on one of mochet s recumbents on 7 july 1933 at a paris velodrome faure rode a modified vélo velocar 45 055 km 27 996 mi in one hour beating an almost 20 year old hour record held by oscar egg and attracting a great deal of attention when the union cycliste internationale uci met in february 1934 manufacturers of upright bicycles lobbied to have faure s one hour record declared invalid on 1 april 1934 the uci published a new definition of a racing bicycle that specified how high the bottom bracket could be above the ground how far it could be in front of the seat and how close it could be to the front wheel the new definition effectively banned recumbents from uci events for a combination of tradition safety and economic reasons 25 charles mochet died a short time after the ban was enacted still protesting against the uci decision and the firm continued to make recumbents under his widow and later georges mochet until at least 1941 for a limited number of customers their final versions were a single chain design named the vélorizontal the final model using a cyclo four speed gear francis faure in his record setting velocar in 1938 after the uci decision faure continued to race and consistently beat upright bicycles with the velocar in 1938 faure and mochet s son georges began adding fairings to the velocar in hopes of bettering the world record of one hour for a bicycle with aerodynamic components on 5 march 1938 faure rode a faired velocar 50 537 kilometers in an hour and became the first cyclist to travel more than 50 kilometers in an hour without the aid of a pace vehicle 26 the uci ban on recumbent bicycles and other aerodynamic improvements virtually stopped development of recumbents for four decades and remains in force citation needed although recumbent designs continued to crop up over the years they were mainly the work of lone enthusiasts and numbers remained insignificant until the 1970s citation needed georges mochet died in 2008 1970s resurgence and the ihpva edit while developments had been made in this fallow period by paul rinkowski and others the modern recumbent movement was given a boost in 1969 when the ground hugger by robert riley was featured in popular mechanics 27 there was also the work of chester kyle and particularly david gordon wilson of mit two americans who opposed the uci restrictions and continued to work on fairings and recumbents in 1974 they also nucleated the international human power speed championship in long beach california from which the ihpva grew kyle and his students had been experimenting with fairings for upright bicycles also banned by the uci in 1975 the brothers john and randy schlitter started producing recumbents at their company rans and became the first u s company to do so 27 in 1978 the vélérique is the very first commercialized recumbent bicycle fully faired by the belgian erik abergen in 1979 the hpv white lightning broke the us 55 mph national speed limit winning the abbot prize eventual top speed of white lightning was 62 mph the avatar 2000 a lwb bike very much like the current easy racers products arrived in 1979 it was featured in the 1983 film brainstorm 28 ridden by christopher walken and in the popular cycling reference richard s bicycle book by richard ballantine from 1983 to 1991 steven roberts toured the u s in a modified avatar pulling a trailer with solar panels and a laptop gaining press coverage and writing the book computing across america 27 a faired avatar 2000 was the first two wheeler to beat the european vector three wheeler in the streamliner races for about ten years afterward speed records were exchanged between easy racers with freddy markham in the cockpit and the lightning team so america s strength became the flying 200 meter sprint in the streamliner division the oil crises of the 1970s sparked a resurgence in cycling coincident with the arrival of these new designs citation needed a parallel but somewhat separate scene grew up in europe with the first european human power championships being held in 1983 the european scene was more dominated by competition than was the us with the result that european bikes are more likely to be low swb machines while lwb are much more popular in the us although there have been some notable european lwb bikes such as the peer gynt citation needed in the 1980s edit in 1984 linear recumbents of iowa began producing bicycles in 2002 linear manufacturing s assets were bought by bicycle man llc and moved to new york since then owner peter stull has been working with senior engineering students at alfred university local engineers and machinists using available technology including computer fea testing to improve their recumbent bikes lightning x 2 record setting hpv also in 1984 lightning x 2 became the first 2 wheel recumbent to pass 55 mph all previous records had been set by three wheel faired recumbents since 1986 the absolute hpv top speed records have been set by two wheel recumbents bike e two medium wheelbase recumbents in an amateur hpv race in the uk in the 1980s the most publicised recumbent cycle in the uk was the delta configuration sometime electrically powered sinclair c5 although sold as an electric car the c5 could be characterised as a recumbent tricycle with electrical assistance a study by bussolari and nadel 1989 led them to pick a recumbent riding position for the daedalus flight even though the english channel crossing was accomplished in the gossamer albatross with an upright position drela in 1998 confirmed that there was no significant difference in power output between recumbent and conventional bicycling 29 next in 1989 the partly faired lightning f 40 recumbent bike set the four man race across america raam record travelling 3000 miles from los angeles to new york in 5 days 1 hour in the 2000s edit three of the largest recumbent manufacturers in the us went out of business after the 1990s including bikee august 2002 atp vision early 2004 and burley design cooperative september 2006 performance edit main article bicycle performance over distances recumbent bicycles outperform upright bicycles as evidenced by their dominance in ultra distance events like 24 hours at sebring 30 official speed records for recumbents are governed by the rules of the international human powered vehicle association a number of records are recognised the fastest of which is the flying 200 m a distance of 200 m on level ground from a flying start with a maximum allowable tailwind of 1 66 m s the current record is 144 17 km h 89 58 mph set by todd reichert of canada in a fully faired front wheel drive recumbent lowracer bicycle 31 the official record for an upright bicycle under ihpva legal conditions but at sea level not high altitude is 82 53 km h 51 28 mph set by jim glover in 1986 with an english made moulton bicycle with a usa made hardshell fairing around him and the bike the ihpva hour record is 90 60 km 56 30 mi set by sam whittingham on 19 july 2009 the latest known hour record is 92 432 km kilometers 57 434 miles set by francesco russo of switzerland using metastretto on the dekra test oval track in klettwitz germany 26 06 2016 32 the equivalent record for an upright bicycle is 55 089 km 34 231 mi set by victor campenaerts in 2019 the uci no longer considers the bike chris boardman rode for his 1996 record to be in compliance with its definition of an upright bicycle boardman s monocoque bike was designed by mike burrows whose windcheetah recumbent trike see above also holds the record from land s end to john o groats 861 miles 1 386 km in 41 h 4 min 22 s with andy wilkinson riding in 2003 rob english took on and beat the uk 4 man pursuit champions vc st raphael in a 4000 m challenge race at reading beating them by a margin of 4 min 55 5 s to 5 min 6 87 s and dropping one of the st raphael riders along the way faired lightning recumbents ridden by pete penseyres lightning f 40 cross us record holder set the los angeles to new york 5 days 1 hour san francisco to los angeles 18 hours and seattle to portland 7 hours 31 minutes records in 2009 team rans won the race across america raam four person division on unfaired recumbents in 6 days 3 hours 33 see also edit bicycle and motorcycle dynamics bicycle and motorcycle geometry bicycle performance bicycle seat bicycle suspension feet forwards motorcycle recumbent motorbike equivalent fastest speed on a bicycle handcycles international human powered vehicle association prone bicycle quadracycle human powered vehicle tricycle unicycle velomobile x seam world human powered vehicle 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