Originally Posted by fmw
North Central Indiana. I'm near South Bend - not the world's hot bed of bike shops. Thanks for the comment about my bikes. I love to build them almost as much as I like to ride them. I'm working on a steel Italian Basso Gap at the moment. The frame is at the shop now getting faced and chased. It will be 100% Italian if I can manage it.
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Bachetta has some shops about two hours drive of you. One in Chicago, one in St Charles, IL, and one in Holt, Mi (near Lansing). Do you ever get out to New York? There's a shop in western NY called The Bicycle Man. They carry bents in stock to test ride. It's one of the sponsors listed across the top of Bentrider Online.
http://www.bicycleman.com/recumbents/recumbents.htm
http://www.bentrideronline.com/
If you wanted to take a week's vacation, or a long weekend, and test out rides, you could go to the Hostell Shoppe near Oshkosh, Wi, or to Minneapolis to Calhoun Cycles.