Recumbent Tike – Improvements II
Mark Bronkalla If you let an engineer build something and use it, it will get tweaked over time. Now that the new seat is on the trike and I have been riding…
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Recumbent Trike – New Seat & Improvements
I have had the recumbent trike for a few years now. Returning from a ride and cranking up our steep driveway I heard a cracking noise and with each pedal…
3D Printing Nylon
One of my goals when building the printer was to be able to print nylon and other high temp materials. For the trike, I wanted to print some parts for…
Recumbent trike – idlers and longer ride
The trike is now mostly done, but the drive train was giving me grief. The idlers were not working out and I replaced the rear cassette due to the chain…
Recumbent trike – Paint
So now I have striped the trike back down to the frame. There was more touch up welding and grinding going on. The Atomic Zombie website motto seems to be…
Recumbent Trike – Steering pull solved
The steering pulling to the right bothered me. The 1.5 to 2 degree difference in the caster angles was there and it had to be the clue I needed. However,…
Recumbent trike front end work and test rides
The front derailleur needs a tube on which to mount. This ended up being a piece of water pipe that was bored out to a reasonable wall thickness. The pipe…
Recumbent Trike cabling
Hmmm, One brake lever and two front brakes. This needs a bit of work. I considered the dual brake line brake levers, but they don’t look exceptionally well made. I…
Recumbent trike handlebars
Looking at the upturned handlebars in the plans and the comments about twist grip shifters being hard to use, I was not surprised. You would naturally grip these thumbs up.…
Recumbent trike brakes and seat
The trike is set up with disk brakes. The fronts are new Avid BB7 mechanical and the rear is a used Avid Juicy 5 hydraulic. All have 160mm rotors. Mounting…