RubeRad

I had a couple times seen a bright blue, fully-faired, recumbent tricycle riding around my neighborhood, this morning I discovered that he lives on my commuting route, because he was backing out of his driveway as I was coming by. I chatted with him a bit (rather pestered him with questions!), he was just starting his commute, and it's about 32 miles r/t.

He's totally "our" kind of guy, but I couldn't find any evidence of his presence on bikeforums.net, but he does have a website:


I'm sure everybody here would enjoy taking a look (except the site's pretty slow). He also has a pretty tricked out LHT, as well as a tandem which is recumbent in the front, upright in the back.

Leisesturm

There is another more recumbent specific website, which also has a forum on which velorambler does have a presence. However, a quibble, if I might: the trike in question is actually called a velomobile. It is not a fully faired trike. There isn't very much trike at all in there really. The bodyshell (monocoque) does all the work of supporting the wheels, seat and drive-train). Fully faired recumbent trikes exist but are usually much heavier because of the redundancy (weight) of both a non-structural bodyshell and structural trike frame. There is a recumbent sub-forum here on bikeforums and sometimes velomobiles get discussed there but it is usually recumbent bikes and trikes.

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RubeRad

Interesting, from the top I had no idea. His website says his velo is about 70lb unloaded, so if faired recumbent trikes get even heavier than that, seems like this thing is a really good design.