You should try to make this bike.
 Organize a few tools, scrape up a couple of yard sale bikes, clear a little garage space. Give it a try! If you are not a welder or brazier (sp?), take your hacksaw-cut and carefully filed parts to a friend who is. The mechanical details of assembly are very accessible and take only a few specialty tools. Bike mechanics work too cheap, and are usually susceptible to Mountain Dew bribery.
Write to me -
Especially if I have confused you anywhere on this site. Half my joy in this enterprise is discussing my odd passion with you. I am most interested in your progress, and in your improvement on these pages. Somewhere in the website is a feedback page (I still hope to put one in). I always check my Email at mailto:adcarson@recycledrecumbent.com and I want to hear from you. You can find my phone number on the contact page here - sometimes I am in the house (and not in the toy shoppe) and I'd like to hear from you.
If I can help you with advice, I am paid enough. If you can help me with a better idea, I am blessed! Last and least – if the process scares you, let me help.
It shouldn’t – I believe anyone can build this bike. It takes desire, time, ingenuity, and often helpful friends, but you can do it. But if the project does give you the heebies, or if YOU scare you off, yet you still want a modest but great riding entry into recumbent bicycling, get in touch. I’ll meet you anywhere along this road you want to start. Need a frame? I’ll sell you a frame for next to nothing and you can build it up and paint it as your own. Got a bike you like, but my seat seems comfortable? I’ll send you a seat frame, and we can work on inventing the hardware to get it attached to your ride. Want a whole kit – frame, fork, seat frame, and special parts? We can do that and you can do the rest. I build around 30 complete bikes a year – a few of those not on commission are looking for good homes. It is a hobby and labor of love – I do not make a living from this. I fantasize about it, but you and I are a pretty small niche market.
If there are any parts, portions, or assemblies I can help you with, I will be glad to. A rough idea of costs, not including shipping, are: First - The plans are not for sale - they are free. Every drawing on this site is a down load-able PDF file - look here - DRAWINGS Plans are yours for downloading! SALES - My Parts – ************************************************ Matched donor fork with a brake bridge $ 50 Bare Mach 2 frame $220 Matched fork with rake and bridge $ 60 Bare Mach 3 frame $300 Matched fork with rake (no bridge required) $ 75 Seat frame (I make 16"wide as stock, what can we alter
to fit your needs?) $ 70
Seat finished with stitched in web (black is 'stock') $ 115 Set (top & bottom) of seat mounts $ 50 A steering stem (comes with 1 quill) $ 30 Diagonal frame brace $ 40 Brake studs front or rear, each pair $ 25 Upgrade bottom rails/Diagonal to Cromolly $ 90 Jockey wheel/washer idler $ 10
Terracycle guide tube $ 19
Terracycle Sport Idler Kit (needs a tab) $ 62
RANS Chopper Bar (reduced width) $100 (Add a black 1" stem - $15)
Mirrycle MTB Bar End Mirror (installed) $ 20
************************************************** Bike parts – your salvage is probably as good as I have – what I have you are welcome to at salvage prices. Let’s talk. Whole bikes. I build about 30-50 a year. Want one? Let’s talk. Generally priced here starting at $800 with donor stock components and a powder coat paint job. There is a often a spare bike or two discounted in the showroom. The whole point of building your comissioned bike at this price is to pbuild YOUR bike - your size, your color, your components as far as you want to specify the bike. I’d be tickled to make a custom fit bike for you – either the 18-21 speed version I have sold on Ebay, or an upgraded version tailored to your specific needs and components. Seats! We have adapted the Barnett Williams sling seat to a number of different bikes. I have patterns to make adapters to the Tour Easy and other Easy Racers bikes:   Price for a finished seat is $110, for the typical base adapter is $25. You can use the existing struts from the Koolback seat, or order my rear seat brace for $30. Pick a color and let me know your needs. PARTS BY TERRACYCLE - It's true! Terracycle has made an adapter for the Mach 2 and EZ Clone frames for mounting their Sport Return Idler. This is generally a little quieter and one has to guess more efficient than the jockey wheel idler above. The double clamp mounting bracket fits the 3/4 inch conduit bottom rail of our bikes securely, no drilling needed. You can see Terracycle's description of the idler at http://www.terracycle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=T&Product_Code=idlersportrtn&Category_Code=IdlersALL  Sport Idler kit priced through Recycled Recumbents at $62.00 Note on Feb. 12, 2011. Pat Franz at Terracycle has let me know he won't be making this set up any more for me. There is only one of these left to adapt back to the Recycled Recumbent Frames. Speak now to secure one for your Mach 2! However, we do have a way to adapt the standard Terracycle Tour Easy Idler kit to the Mach 2. You can buy that from Pat and put it together with a drill and a bolt, or buy it from me for your custom built (with the right tab) frame. $62
*********************************** Terracycle also offers a chain tube for managing your return idler. This chain tube is silent and very passive in retaining the chain (as in keeping it off the road) - it is held in place (see that shroud?) by a short length of bike chain - this allows complete side to side movement, yet it won't allow the tube to move forward or back with the chain.  Chain Tube priced through Recycled Recumbents at $19, a considerably less expensive option to the Sport Return Idler. *************************************************** PARTS BY RANS -
RANS Chopper Bar - I've put this on my Mach 2 and I like it a lot. A lightweight alloy handlebar, a sleek look in black, and almost infinitely adjustable - length, sweep, hand position - bar width. It's great. It's expensive, too. I can sell it as pictured for the same price RANS does for $76. However, I find the 12" wide of the base piece uncomfortably wide on a Mach 2. I've altered the handlebar on my bike from 12" wide to 9 1/4" wide - it works a lot better. I can offer the handlebar as pictured for $100 - it's the bees knees in LWB recumbent handlebars - everyone should have something this slick. I mount it using a black 1" stem, which I can add to yours for $15.
The RANS catalog picture -
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Thanks for looking. I wish you all the best with your bike project. Let me know if I can help with anything here! A.D. Carson
414-616-0307
5428 N. Dexter Ave.
Glendale, WI 53209
CURRENT BIKES AND FRAMES FOR SALE: Bare frames, my finished bikes, and occasional used bikes (from the manufacturers) are for sale here on the website. Visit the 'Showroom' page for the latest on what is available right now. Or contact me, and we can build a custom bike (even at the base price level) for you.  |
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