What are recumbent cycles?
Recumbent cycles, often affectionately referred to as Bent bikes, get their name from the seating position. Rather than sitting on a high, narrow seat and leaning forward over the handlebars, bent bikes have a reclined, lower seating position much like a recliner. Recumbents come in many shapes and sizes. For bikes, the most common configurations are LWB bike (long wheelbase typically 65-71 inches), CLWB bike (compact long wheelbase – or, as I’m sure you figured out already, medium wheelbase 46-64 inches), SWB bike (short wheel base 33-45 inches), delta trike (one wheel in front for steering and two in back supplying the power, typically rather upright in appearance) and tadpole trike (two wheels in front for steering and one in back for supplying the power, typically lower to the ground looking and acting very sporty). They can have over seat steering (OSS) or under seat steering (USS). The type of recumbent you should ride depends somewhat on what kinds of cycling you want to do, but
