Florida is great for us Northerners in February. Even more fun is some recumbent racing in Florida in February. This February I went to the Florida Challenge HPRA HPV races, and actually won some events. Recumbent races are always a good opportunity to talk about riding and see new bikes. This race was no different, as Florida based Catrike brought their new Catbike to the event. I had the good fortune to ride it, and wrote up a mini-review.

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Warren went to Interbike 2009, which this year was held September 21st - 25th, and has post daily updates of recumbent related products and information. Daily updates here

On the weekend of 4/12/2009, a contigent of Australian speedbikers descended onto the Lang Lang, Australia race track expressly to break records. And they did just that, setting a new low-altitude single rider tricycle one-hour world record, as well as a host of Australian records.

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I updated the recumbent buyers guide. In doing so,  I found the following:

• Manufacturers have raised their prices in general.
• Volae has dropped it's prices.
• Price of a Velokraft NoCom is through the roof, at almost $10,000 !
• Sun has an interesting new trike, the M3 UAX.
• Rans has quietly dropped their triangulated F5 Enduro highracer in favor of the stick bike format for the Enduro and models. Also bowing out are the Rocket and Tailwind models.
• Route-X has no bikes no sell. Hmm.
• MITE is gone.
• Several small trike manufacturers in Australia, including Hotmover appear to be gone.
• Greenspeed must be Reeeally popular, because all I got on their website was "bandwidth exceeded"...
• Challenge now has a trike, and it looks... Fantastic!
• Bacchetta has dropped the Agio and the Cafe,

The first HPRA recumbent bicycle races of 2009.  Gas prices are cheap. No excuses!



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