Links*
Local/regional biking groups
-
Bloomington Bicycle
Club
- Organized rides
- Route maps
- Local bicycle advocacy
-
Central Indiana
Bicycling
Association
- Hilly Hundred
Recumbent information sources
- IHPVA - The International Human Powered Vehicle Association: pictures, manufacturers, stories, FAQs and answers, and several excellent mailing lists and their archives!
- Mark Matarella's excellent site - www.recumbents.com
- Bent Rider Online - free online magazine
- RCN - Recumbent Cyclist News -- one of the few recumbent-oriented printed periodicals, and an excellent source of information!
- Micheal Deagan's new big list of trikes
- Search Google for "recumbent bicycle", or search for 'bent images
Recumbent clubs in other places
- Flyin' Joes recumbent club, Crawfordsville
- Bent Trail Riders in Ohio's Little Miami Valley
- Louisville Recumbent Riders
- Chicagoland Recumbent Riders
- Wolverbents - Michigan Wolver-Bent Recumbent Cyclists
- The Minnesota Human Powered Vehicle Association
- WISIL - Wisconsin/Illinois HPV riders
- WHIRL - Washington DC's Happily Independent Recumbent Lovers
- Human Powered Vehicles of Southern Ontario
- MARS The NY/NJ/CT/PA Metro Area Recumbent Society
- BRAG - Bent Riders Arizona Group in Phoenix
- Atlanta Recumbent Cyclists
- Recumbenteers - Western New York recumbent riders group
- Oregon HPV group - Oregon Human Powered Vehicles
- Recumbent Bike Enthusiasts of North Texas
Local recumbent riders
- Kevin Atkins: Greenspeed, Terratrike, and Linear
- Mitch Rice
- Joe Sacher in Indy
- [your name here] - please contact me at the address below if you have a web page you'd like to see linked!
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Welcome!
This is a place for information about recumbents bicycles (and tricycles), riders, events, sales, etc. for folks in Bloomington, Indiana and the surrounding area.
There is also a mailing list you can join to receive messages about events, questions from other riders, etc. The list will be lightly managed to keep it "on topic".
Greenspeed tandem recumbent tricycle
Local 'bent events -- none scheduled yet!
- Go for local, recumbent-mostly ride?
- Meet at a local gathering place to get to know each other a bit?
- Ride as a group in a local parade?
- Arrange to meet up at an organized ride, such as the Hilly Hundred, or the monthly Little Miami ride
- Organize a trip somewhere out of town, like
- the Monon Trail or other trails in Indianapolis
- the Little Miami trail (Cincinnati to Yellow Springs)
- [your idea here?] please email me at the address below with ideas for rides!
Local 'bent dealers
- Steve Dodds, The Bicycle Doctor carries Linear and Burley recumbents
- Bikesmiths in Bloomington, now carrying the Cannondale recumbent
- Gilles, the Bicycle Garage, and most other bike shops will at least help you look into recumbents, but don't currently keep any in stock
- [your shop here - let me know if you, or someone you know regularly carries recumbents]
Regional 'bent dealers
- ValleyBikes -- celebrating their "grand reopening in Carmel, IN. Here's a Mapquest Map to their shop.
- Tom's Bike Annex in Mt. Carmel, Illinois
- and here's the WISIL group's list of Midwestern dealers that carry recumbents
- The Bicycle Station in Columbus, OH, and the Bike Center in Oxford, OH are both rumoured to have recumbents
- Bicycle One in Columbus, OH, sells Greenspeed, Wicks, and Trice
- [your ideas here -- send me other Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky shops, etc.]