Well, pretty busy lately, but here’s what I’ve done so far:
My recumbent build. This is just an Atomic Zombie.com copy, so I won’t act like I came up with it myself. I set the seat a bit higher than it could be, to trade some aero for handling/stability. Current frame is light enough to lift with one hand.
This one isn’t a huge update, really. I stripped the frame down to bare aluminum, and I’ve bought a fibreglass kit. You’ll notice the bike has a tail: I didn’t have any special clamps for mounting a rack nor were there any proper holes on the frame so I just welded a piece of scrap to a seatpost I had. The tail fairing will mix poorly with the rear brake placement, so I’m going to make a bracket that lets me mount my brake where the kickstand was previously. From there, I can make a support strut to connect the “tail” to where the brake bolted in previously. This rear rack is suboptimal from a load-bearing standpoint, but I’m not gonna be loading it down too much anyway.
Here’s some doodles. I’m trying to lay out some ideas towards paint jobs/fairing shapes. The lowracer looks good, but the tailbox on the road bike is kinda bloated looking. I’d like to use black accents on a yellow base, as the tail reminds me of a wasp.