Beginning this Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, Linear Recumbents, the only mass marketed Long Wheel Base recumbent bicycle designed as well as manufactured in America,  will begin a national tour. At the Louisville Rowing Club, in Louisville Kentucky, they will kick their coast-to-coast run off  by giving test rides of their Linear Limo LWB as well as their SWB Roadster  machines. 

After a full slate of private showings, three weeks later they will arrive in California. There on February 22 at Kirks Bicycles  in Ramona, outside of San Diego (35 miles away) we will check in on them with a live podcast show. 

There, they will preview both their models and be joined by a new entrant to the  three wheel marketplace, the $1495 Avenue Trike.  Indeed it is fitting that this new  tadpole three wheeler will  get a screening with  one of the oldest recumbent bicycle dealers on the planet, Kirk’s Bicycles . Nor can it be ignored that Kirk Newell goes all the way back to the recumbent three wheel  beginning with his 47 mph trike, the Other Woman. His fully faired three-wheeler had its hey day in the early 1980’s at IHPVA races such as the ones held at the now closed Pamona raceway. 

Linear’s tour continues five days later with the Avenue Trike in Texas on Feb 27 at the Heart of Texas Recumbent Rally  that long time recumbent dealer, Easy Street Recumbents  has been producing in Austin, TX since 2010. 

Linear will once again be joined by the Avenue Trike on its last tour stop, March 5 at Hampton’s  Edge Trailside Bicycles  in Floral City Florida.

If you are near any of the areas noted above please do feel free to stop in and be part of the excitement. What needs to be underscored is the fact that the Linear long wheel base is a machine that folds and has been under redevelopment for the last decade. Toward that end, Martin Kreig, who rode it last October at Recumbent Cycle Con. says,  “it is the most comfortable recumbent  I have ever ridden”.