Eric Whiting is an architect in Saratoga Springs, NY who designed and built this recumbent trike. I am certainly no expert on recumbents, but the trike looks nice and features a pretty slick carbon fiber seat/ fender. In addition to the renderings and prototype photos, Eric sent me a 19-page pdf document that included his research, concept sketches, and development renderings. It also chronicled the construction of the prototype and showed images of the finished trike in use. I wish I could share the entire pdf with you, because it is a great example of a well documented design process. Unfortunately I can’t do so on the blog, so I have picked out just a few images.
Eric has a few pictures of the completed trike on a geocities page. He says he plans to put more images of his trike project on the web in the near future. When he does, I will update this post to point to the new site.
Hi James, thanks for the kind words… just one small point if I may – Velo Vision magazine content IS available online, in full, just not for free (sorry, gotta pay those bills)! See:
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/magazine/399/442
All the best,
Peter – Velo Vision
Couldn’t the aero wheels be obviated with some minor changes to the seat/fender mould to make it even more of a fairing?
Gas prices at this time in Lexington, KY are around $2.00 a gal. However, the oil companies hook us and then have us pay more for gas inn cycles. I don’t trust them and I will continue to ride my electric bike as much as possible.
By the way, these are the most incredible bikes I have ever seen. Thanks for an incredible blog!
Thanks for that correction Peter. The online content is here for those of you who can’t click through to the link.