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Originally Posted by elhigh

Try this: http://www.manytracks.com/Recumbent/treebike.htm

The guy uses lots of metal to get things done, but evidently doesn't have a welder. So his 'bent's backbone is a hollow box truss made of spruce and plywood.

I love seeing this do-it-yourself stuff.

As Thoreau said:
"There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?"