Building a recumbent bicycle

I have a small pile of old bike frames, a MIG welder, and some bookmarks to web pages about building recumbents. One day they might meet each other, but don't hold your breath. I also have a copy of Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza, and a copy of the BHPC's So You Want to Build an HPV. Longterm I'm possibly interested in a tilting three wheeler something like this one, or this one but something simpler to start with seems a good idea.

In the meantime, here are some links:

• Easyracer's current Tour Easy for comparison.
• Tour Easy clone - lots of drawings, lots of photos - he even sells parts or whole bikes.
• Another Tour Easy clone, with PDF scanned People Movers' plans.(link now dead - web.archive.org version)
• Yet another "Tour Easy clone" (but with remote steering, more like a Calfee Stiletto in layout) with plans (which don't include the remote steering)
• Underseat steering as a Tour Easy clone variation (though the owner decided it wasn't for him).(Now dead, www.archive.org version missing images

• The Maurauder Reloaded Atomic Zombie's revised long-wheelbase low-rider
• A home-built recumbent tandem
• Riley XR2 plans (carbon fiber)
• A Hungarian homebuilt (dead link, web.archive.org version without images

No, I'm not committed to a long wheel base design:

• Short wheelbase recumbent project
• Velodynamics (arguably prototype production machines rather than homemade in terms of idea borrowability - very nice)(Dead link www.archive.org version
• A Dutch kit (no longer available, but they still have a drawing with construction details, and parts.
• Atomic Zombie's KoolKat SWB no longer online, but is in his book
• Econbent
• A homebuilt
• Homebuilt bike and trikes
• Recumbent bicycle built from discards - with hose clips instead of welds ?!?
• Slightly neater "no-weld" conversion
• Bentech - plans for sale
• Minnesota Human Powered Vehicle Association have quite a lot of homebuilts and other useful stuff (though the icebike stuff is unlikely to be relevent on the Cam).
• A Danish HPV club site that has some guides in English
• WISIL have a lot on streamlined lowriders, among other stuff.
• Wooden lowrider.
• Another version of the wooden lowrider
• Some more wooden bikes and other homemades
• Another homemade bent (which broke, and was mended, and has been replaced with a new version, looking very impressive).
• A Recumbent Cycling News entry with links to several projects (with some overlap with the lists above.
• DIY carbon fibre - I have built fibreglass kayaks, but I'm not sure I'd trust a DIY carbon bike frame
• More carbon (upright) and more and more

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