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Recumbents
I love recumbents, me, which is why I bought the Stinger. Here are some of my random thoughts collected thus far.
Optima Stinger 
 At last I have succumbed to the call of the Dark Side
Bent Rider Online 
 Magazine for recumbent riders
VeloVision 
 UK based Magazine for all kinds of unusual cycles - annoying fonts, but loads of content. Trial sub for two issues strongly recommended.
The Stinger Stung 
My Journey to the Dark Side 
 How I stopped being an upright citizen and succumbed to the Dark Side
Padawan 
 Two Padawan experience the lure of the Dark Side
Recumbent Tuning 
 A work in progress on tuning recumbent cycles
Recumbent FAQ 
These are some of the sites I found useful while trying to decide which recumbent to buy:
British Human Power Club 
 Richard Ballantine and Dave "Legs Larry" Larrington. Need I say more?
Challenge Bikes 
 Manufacturer
Future Cycles 
 Ask for Ian or Patrick, there's a test route here, thanks to Andy Welch.
Greenspeed 
 Aussie trikes also available over here. The recumbent tandem looks like a blast but is unfeasibly long.
HP Velotechnik 
 Home of the legendary StreetMachine and SpeedMachine.
Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE) 
 Here be the Trice, and very nice too.
IHPVA 
 International Human Powered Vehicles Association.
LoGo Trikes 
 One I'd never heard of before. As distinct from all the others I'd never heard of before, I suppose.
London Recumbents 
M5 
 M5 - the Shockproof, LowRacer, and other fine examples of the Dark Side.
Optima 
 I liked the Stinger so much I walked out of the shop with the display model.
Recumbents.com - bike models 
 A long and useful list of bike models
recumbents.com 
 Useful place to bookmark
Stein 
 Impressively specified and incredibly cheap trikes imported by West Country Recumbents.
Thorax 
 German made, apparently impressively engineered.
Varna 
 Georgi Georgiev' s record breaking machines - big on handcycles, but makes foot-powered models as well. And they all go fast......
West Country Recumbents 
 Not too close to Reading, but very good (thanks for the Jaffa Cakes, Carol)
Whiz Wheelz 
Windcheetah 
 There is only one Mike Burrows. There is only one Windcheetah. And this is it.
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