So how many recumbent riders have we?

[arallsopp]

a Rohloff, sounded like a good idea, but the price and the fact that you had to do the setup with the shifters yourself made me decide to go for the standard, an X9 SRAM. Now I'm glad I did so

I opted to get the SMGTe with SRAM DualDrive rather than a Rohloff. I've been quietly lusting after one since 2008. Its a standard setup on the bike I'm getting next, so should actually be one less thing to worry about. Hopefully.... Time will tell

 

[the-aged-p]

Completely unfit non-cyclist. Age 70. New ICE Adventure FS. Brilliant. Why didn't I do this years ago?*


* 'cos I couldn't afford one then, of course.

 

[Rob Archer]

I ride a StreetMachine GT. Best thing I ever bought! I'm now hankering after an ICE Sprint 26 though - not that I can afford one.

Rob

 

[starhawk]

I ride a StreetMachine GT. Best thing I ever bought! I'm now hankering after an ICE Sprint 26 though - not that I can afford one.

Rob

That is the problem! I couldn't afford my trike either, but then my parents passed away and suddenly I had the means to get both a trike and a bigger flat, but then I was 55, that was the time it took me to get it

 

[Aushiker]

Dropping in from down-under (sorry about the cricket . My main ride is a LoGo "Lightning P-38", a locally built copy of the P-38 and my first recumbent was a Bacchetta Giro 20 ATT which is going to go on the market post Christmas.

Regards
Andrew

 

[Kino451]

I have a few Rainbow recumbent bicycles from Holland ...

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[Kino451]

I have a couple of Rainbow Lyner recumbent bicycles from Holland .

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[Aushiker]

I have a couple of Rainbow Lyner recumbent bicycles from Holland .

They are very nice bikes. Are they still made?

Andrew

 

[Kino451]

They are very nice bikes. Are they still made?

Andrew

Hi Aushiker.
Yes , Rainbow Ligfeitsen (recumbents) are still being made in Aalten , Holland

Vim and Meindert are the founders of Rainbow . Meindert is powder coating Rainbow Longo frame ..

 

[ufkacbln]

Gum Tree for £400......so I now have a pre ICE Trice (as made by Crystal Engineering) It is not immaculate, and at some stage I will give it a good strip down and paint - but it is nice to ride and I can ride it one handed with no balance problems. Maiden voyage was yesterday evening - a short jaunt of 15 miles and once again I am a happy bunny!

My first trike in 1994 was a Crystal Engineering Trice.

It arrived in the first week of June 1994 and I got sent down to RNAS Culdrose the following week on a short notice draft, so rode it down!

Here is the machine outside the Sick Bay at Culdrose

The quality was a little haphazard as the frames wee produced by a Sixth Form metalwork class at a Cromer School (allegedly) - however if you got a good frame they were OK

 

[mrandmrspoves]

My first trike in 1994 was a Crystal Engineering Trice.

It arrived in the first week of June 1994 and I got sent down to RNAS Culdrose the following week on a short notice draft, so rode it down!

Here is the machine outside the Sick Bay at Culdrose

The quality was a little haphazard as the frames wee produced by a Sixth Form metalwork class at a Cromer School (allegedly) - however if you got a good frame they were OK

I am familiar with the picture you posted Cunobelin - as it was one of the first images I found when I did a Google search to find out a bit more about the Trice.
Mine is in the same red and I believe it to be a Circa 1995 model with a slightly different rear end to your one.
Kevin at DTec gave me some information and also informed me of the possibility that my Trice could have been constructed by a Norfolk schoolboy.
I checked the frame carefully when I collected it and all is in good order and the welding is of a good standard.
As my shoulders are getting worse rather than better, I am now pretty much certain that my future cycling will all be on a recumbent trike so I am saving for something more recent and lighter......
One of the main issues is the 20" 451 wheels - which I cannot seem to get any tyres for, that offer the kind of P protection that Schwalbe Marathons do.
Last Sunday was good as I cycled out with a group and they, being on standard bicycles, had to go slowly due to the amount of black ice - whereas I had no fear of falling off (but had great fun sliding round corners!)
Some pics of my old bus below show the weld quality.

 

[ufkacbln]

I had three frames over the 14 years I rode my Trice, including the rear end that you have. IN the end it was a bit like the "broom" it was a 1994 Trice in name only!

I spoke to Peter Ross in the early 2000s about the wheels and had the rims replaced with 406. Did not affect handling and made tyres more available. I also when the frame changed swapped the rear wheel for a 559 mountain bike one to give a bigger tyre

 

[Kino451]

Hi .. I bought two of these lovely DA22 AlexRims 20"451x14 (36 hole) from a nice chap in Holland last year 2013 ..I can remember how hard it was to find anything decent in the past . I wouldn't mind but I haven't a bicycle to put them ?

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[mrandmrspoves]

I had three frames over the 14 years I rode my Trice, including the rear that you have. IN the end it was a bit like the "broom" it was a 1994 Trice in name only!

I spoke to Peter Ross in the early 2000s about the wheels and had the rims replaced with 406. Did not affect handling and made tyres more available. I also when the frame changed swapped the rear wheel for a 559 mountain bike one to give a bigger tyre

Yes - you can see from my picture that I also went the mountain bike rear wheel route - just to give a bit more shock absorption. The Mountain King tyre wss just one I had spare from when I could ride my MTB - but I only used it temporarily until I got a Marathon.
I do keep my eyes open for some cheap later wheels in a different and more common ERTO size .....but so far to no avail

 

[starhawk]

My first trike in 1994 was a Crystal Engineering Trice.

It arrived in the first week of June 1994 and I got sent down to RNAS Culdrose the following week on a short notice draft, so rode it down!

Here is the machine outside the Sick Bay at Culdrose

The quality was a little haphazard as the frames wee produced by a Sixth Form metalwork class at a Cromer School (allegedly) - however if you got a good frame they were OK

Looks scary! that lower backend seems ready to fold at any minute. Interesting however to see how the backend have evolved to my Trice who have the "bow" apperance