Building a recumbent trike

[rtz]

Was looking at these. Sure they are nice. Expensive too.

Recumbent Trikes

Recumbent trikes are 3-wheel adult bikes with laid-back seats. Riding a recumbent with three wheels alleviates many pain points that many riders have while riding a regular 2-wheel bicycle including balance, fatigue, joint pain, and more. Laid Back Cycles is the top recumbent tricycle dealer on...

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That got me looking at these. Has anyone here built one? I want to put an ebike kit on it.

ChopZone / AtomicZombie DIY Recumbent Trike Plans

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[amberwolf]

I haven't built one of the AZ trikes, but I have built the SB Cruiser (not from plans, but by experiment; see signature link) and am designing another based on what I learned from SBC.

Which type of trike and design you should build will depend on what you want to use it for, under what conditions, at what speeds, etc. The more detail you post about that the more useful the advice we can give will be.

You may find that a "kit" doesn't do what you want, or won't work on a specific design, so you may have to pick and choose specific components to do the job you want and have the specific features and functions you want. So...here also, the more detail you post about that the more useful the advice we can give will be.

 

[PaPaSteve]

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