Kingcycle stopped building production bikes, but continued to make one-off racers. But the story is that They Shall, like General Macarthur, Return - Rob English tells us that "Kingcycle have taken me on to develop a new production bike"
There used to be a Japanese company called Sunaga that made recumbents. The main model was a fairly standard USS LWB bike called the NASCA Street Recumbent. Here's a photo:
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Feel free to add to this list of Dead Bents. I know there is more for the list. 1. hypercycle? 2.Red Bent 3Black Bent 4. Re-Bike 5. Bike E 6 Trek 7. Cannondale
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The Danish Semi-Homebuild Evita isn't any more.. Both the first 20/20 and the later big/small (700c 559 / 451 406) is discontinued. Maybe we will blow some life into it again in a local HPV group near Copenhagen.
I thought Mikael would have mentioned that, but apparently he sold his (guessing) - did you get the price you asked?
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Feel free to add to this list of Dead Bents. I know there is more for the
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1. hypercycle? 2.Red Bent 3Black Bent 4. Re-Bike 5. Bike E 6 Trek 7. Cannondale
The Danish Semi-Homebuild Evita isn't any more.. Both the first 20/20 and the later big/small (700c 559 / 451 406) is discontinued. Maybe we will blow some life into it again in a local HPV group near Copenhagen.
I thought Mikael would have mentioned that, but apparently he sold his (guessing) - did you get the price you asked?
Yep, it went to someone in Stenlille I think that wanted to commute on it to work Went for 4800 since I didn't have time to adjust the gears and the pesky threadless left bb shell worked its way out as I rode it up to him.
I hope he's happy with it. No complaints to me so far at any rate.
I just got my front hub so I'm off to the bikeshop to get wheels built.
The correct names are Earth Cycles Dragonflyer [TM] [1] and Sunset Lowracer [TM]. [2]
The Counterpoint Presto lives on as the Pashley PDQ, the Counterpoint Triad was resurrected for a time as the Pashley PDQ3, and the Counterpoint Opus IV lives on as the Bilenky Viewpoint.
[1] What it says on the cruciform tube on mine. [2] Do trademarks from defunct companies go back into the public domain?
Tom Sherman - Various HPV's Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)
