Recumbent - have you seen this trike?

i saw a trike today with all three wheels in a line horizontal to the axis of the bike

how much are these kinds of trikes
?

also any protips for beards
?

thanks guys!

Priceless! Like on this page (#4)
http://members.westnet.com.au/rjharrop/recumbents/page1/page1.htm

countersTrike

OK.... what's the point of that arrangement?

SP

or #2 here?
http://members.westnet.com.au/rjharrop/recumbents/page3/page3.htm

OK.... what's the point of that arrangement?
Kinetic sculpture? ;)

oops i meant perpendicular to the bikes axis

90 degrees from the bikes pictured!!!

oh and how bout them beard tips
?

oh and how bout them beard tips
?

Don't shave.

What th' heck do you mean, the wheels are perpendicular to the axis of the trike? You ride it sideways?

They've made a unicycle-type thing with 2 wheels side by side, called a Dicycle, I believe. Sounds like you're describing a 3-wheel version, which makes 50% more sense.

Scroll down to the third picture here:
http://www.unicycling.com/garage/multi.htm

Okay, found a 3-wheel version is commercially available, called a Pedalo. Note that this is wheels and axle only, not a "tricycle" as such, so it may or may not be what you were thinking of. Also note these folks sell all manner of variants of it, but mostly a kid thing:
http://www.sport-thieme.de/rl/R=2106776992/-398320989/art=1296307/-?intcmp=Smart

A movie of one of these, although a 2-wheel version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQFsO6L3LZ4

"Pedalo" is also used to refer to pedal boats and maybe pedicabs, but 99% of the google hits for it are for the pedal boats.

I have always been intrigued by these 'offbeat' ideas that never, almost never, make it into the mainstream. Guess that is cause they are ideas that do not fill a void.

Okay, found a 3-wheel version is commercially available, called a Pedalo. Note that this is wheels and axle only, not a "tricycle" as such, so it may or may not be what you were thinking of. Also note these folks sell all manner of variants of it, but mostly a kid thing:
http://www.sport-thieme.de/rl/R=2106776992/-398320989/art=1296307/-?intcmp=Smart

A movie of one of these, although a 2-wheel version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQFsO6L3LZ4

"Pedalo" is also used to refer to pedal boats and maybe pedicabs, but 99% of the google hits for it are for the pedal boats.

That sort of fits the OP's description, but neither model is a recumbent. Is the OP's hidden message that we should know all about weird, useless variants of bicycles since we already know about 'bents?

You might not have seen this but then again it might be the one you are talking about. Made by Turner of Arizona. Called a T-4-2

http://www.turnerrecumbents.com/products.htm

GaryB

Made by Turner of Arizona. Called a T-4-2

WOW!!

The first 'bent on the page is a hypercycle! My friend had one of those yeeeears ago.
We called it his "love me" bike...:rolleyes: Couldn't ride 10 feet without someone asking ...XXX?

Thanks for that link Gary, I'm sending it to him.

Would reeally like to try that T-4-2, too! :D

"oops i meant perpendicular to the bikes axis...90 degrees from the bikes pictured!!! "

The first bike shown with 3 wheels was inline just like the bottom picture on that last link. So 90 degrees from that puts them side by side. If that's a recumbent, it's an awfully funky one akin to the recumbent unicycle.

WHY????......it sounds like over kill to me, and I'd say it would be harder to make a turn??