bicyclos
Part time Anorak
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Been busy again as usual. On a past thread I built my own SWB recumbent a while back and was using it to commute to work and tackled the 75 mile Gt Yorkshire Bike Ride on it. On the longer distance I found a few quirks with the bike; seat angle, steering geometry was out in some way plus the bmx brakes were rubbish. So the bike got stripped and the angle grinder was out again and spent a few months re-structuring a few bits of the bike.
I bought some more steel tube, Pr of pivot brakes, new headset, lightweight motorcycle mirror (better than the plastic bicycle ones),new adjustable stem, aluminium seat post rack, 9 tins of trade paint (primer,gloss and laquer) and some more inner and outer cables. I made a list of all the materials I have bought to build the bike and it came to just under £500 includes all postages of £53.60.
I made a new seat and bracket assembly and adjusted the steering geometry by 20deg. Its more laid back now and the steering and the braking system are tons better and I even re-vamped the decals.
Heres a few photo's
I bought some more steel tube, Pr of pivot brakes, new headset, lightweight motorcycle mirror (better than the plastic bicycle ones),new adjustable stem, aluminium seat post rack, 9 tins of trade paint (primer,gloss and laquer) and some more inner and outer cables. I made a list of all the materials I have bought to build the bike and it came to just under £500 includes all postages of £53.60.
I made a new seat and bracket assembly and adjusted the steering geometry by 20deg. Its more laid back now and the steering and the braking system are tons better and I even re-vamped the decals.

Heres a few photo's