The Recumbents.com and WISIL HPVers Sites

Published and Maintained by Warren Beauchamp


Warning
: These web sites contains information which may cause addictive behavior.

Yes, it's recumbent bicycles and human powered vehicles that I am referring to. You may think that you can get away with just reading about them. Oh. No. Reading leads to perusing, leads to looking, leads to pondering, leads to buying, leads to building, leads to taking perfectly good upright bicycles and hacking them up to build another recumbent. 

I have been publishing HPV related information, documenting my bike projects, racing, creating web pages for other peoples projects, and publishing HPV race results and pictures on the WISIL site since 1996, and in 2003 took over the care and feeding of the entire www.recumbents.com web site. The web site has grown considerably since it's humble beginnings, and I appreciate the many people who have helped contribute to it's rich content. This site is now the largest and most informative HPV site in the world!

My real job keeps me busy in the Web Support group of a large financial corporation, which means among other things that I create web pages for a job, too.

I've been involved in recumbent bikes and HPVs since 1995, and am working hard to keep it from becoming too much of an obsession. I've been racing streamlined HPVs in the HPRA series of races since 1996, first the WISIL club racer called the "WISIL Missile", then my own streamliner, the "Barracuda", and now the Cuda-W.  

My 'bent transportation:
Below are pictures of some of the vehicle that I have built (and documented!) The bikes I ride a lot, the boat I race once per year.


Built in 2001, the quasi-low Barracuda Street Racer (Street 'Cuda) is my practical, winter and fun ride bike. 

The Cuda-W Streamliner is the bike I race. It is the culmination of work that that I started in 2000.

Built in 2006, the foldracer is an ongoing project. It is a lightweight low racer that can be taken apart and fits into a suitcase.

In 2007 I built an electric assist recumbent. for commuting to work. It's an ongoing project.

In 2005 I built a Kayak based HPB.

Back to the WISIL HPVers site