A Little History Lesson

"Wow! What the heck is that?" That's what I was thinking when I saw this image on the cover of Popular Science way back in October of 1993. The article was about a team of college students that made a fairing around this strange bicycle called a recumbent and it went really fast. It was like a human powered car!



I immediately began designing my own human powered vehicle with all of my bad maths and guesses about how things work mechanically. I came up with an easy way to make a recumbent from two bicycles. If I had a welder. If I knew how to weld. I didn't have either. Eventually the idea faded into the back of my mind where it has been simmering for all these years. Surfacing every few years to receive some front of the mind time. Finally late last year after my wife and I bought a condo. I'd have all kinds of space to work on my crazy projects. On top of that our bicycles got stolen. The time was right to begin the bicycle project I'd been dreaming of.

So I suck at keeping up with a Weblog.

Well, here it is almost exactly a year later and I decide to post something again here. In truth, I just found my blog again by accident. I had completely forgotten that I had set it up. Fortunately, this is a Google service and so somehow Google pointed me here when I went to post on someone else's blog. I don't do that either. Anyway, after a year the pepper thing ended up being a wash. The company more or less went out of business and before they did they released software that hosed the setup I had going. I still use the device but it is no where near what it could have been. So what next? I finally have something to write about. Somewhere around a month and a half ago I started designing a recumbent bicycle. Its actually something I have wanted to do for many years and I am excited to finally be under way with the project.