Last of my Wooden Recumbent Frames

In its 2017 Heyday

Unique steerer assembly

After the.....

Initial rescue from outside

This sticker came from my time as an engineer at an electric motor manufacturer

Graham with the lock.

Aged timber frame

 

Sorting frame kit pieces.

About 10 years ago I completed an industrial design master's degree at Monash University. As part of this, I made several plywood wooden leaning trikes. And after my master's I wasn't satisfied with the seat design and made one more version for a timber design competition and Fringe Furniture 31.  I kept that trike intact but it was stored outside. About a year ago I tried to rescue it but I found the glue in the frame had let go and the frame was extremely wobbly. I cleaned it up, took it inside and there it stayed until a few months ago I got motivated to move it on. 

My friend Graham (he is a carpenter who works on wooden boats) agreed to take it, and before delivering it to him, I packaged up the bike and a complete NC routed kit for making a timber frame for this style of bike. 

A few days ago, M and I delivered the bike and Graham was very pleased. It turns out we just did a swap, Graham makes timber locks from scrap timber and he gave me that in exchange for the bike. 

I'll stay in touch with Graham and will hopefully see a version of this wooden bike on the road again. The learning from these frames helped me design better timber tailboxes which I still design and use. I doubt that I'll ever make another one of these, but you can, as the entire design is on Thingiverse here.

Regards Steve Nurse