Greenspeed Owners Resources Site

• Guy and Jules' new handcrank tandem -- beautiful!
• Dick B's Sharky Trike -- a Greenspeed in a very cool shark fairing, and movie of it in motion. Thanks Dick!
• My new canopy project to protect me on a week long ride.
• Some crazy^H^H^Heative folks from the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa moved a friend accross town, in winter, by bike, trike, and trailers. I love that.
• More Nutty Canadians. Gotta admire their, uh, fortitude!
• The new online Greenspeed owners manual with some great tips, pictures, and drawings of various tricky bits.
• Please see below if you have pictures, tech tips, ride reports, or web links to add to this page! You can upload files to me using this upload form. Here are some pictures which have been uploaded.
• Here's a 10 person trike used in parades here at Indiana University.
• Lots of pictures from the OZ HPV Solar Challenge in 2000
• Greenspeed's own GTO assembly web page -- great reference!
• Here's the Hope Disk Brake Users Guide, for the hydraulic brakes used on some Greenspeeds.
• Richard G. B. has some excellent high resolution pictures of his "GTV" -- a tandem which can be reconfigured as a single trike (the page is loaded with pictures, so I'll open in in a new window). What a great trike! Or, er, trikes...
• James V. has a nice page about his GTE, and how he came to buy it instead of building his own design.
• RCN - Recumbent Cyclist News -- one of the few recumbent-oriented printed periodicals, and an excellent source of information! (opens in a new browser window)
• Westcountry Recumbents has made a Trikes CD-ROM with info on as many recumbent trikes as they could gather.
• The online recumbent publication you should keep an eye on: 'BentRider Online, edited by Bryan Ball. (opens in a new browser window)
• Kurt K's new GTO
• Greenspeed's own web site
• For some people, the Trimuter manual online may be of use. Trimuter is a sanctioned Greenspeed clone, so many ideas probably apply to both.
• The Greenspeed Owners email list archives and subscription page! Go here to read archives of the list, or to join or change your subscription to the list.
• Franny has many albums on Club Photo showing modifications on their Greenspeed tandem, rides, etc.
• At the bottom of Walt's Cycle and Fitness trikes web page is a hitch rack which should accomodate most Greenspeed and other tadpole or delta trikes, recumbent or other.
• Oh, here's the company that makes those, Hitch-rider racks showing a Greenspeed on the rack.
• Here's Tim Smith's collection of information on adjusting the toe-in and on front end design in tadpole trikes. And if you back up a level, he has all sorts of helpful information on recumbent and HPV construction.
• Chris Moseley (Moz) has pictures and lots of interesting text about his homebuilt Greenspeed-type tandem.
• How to adjust a Sachs/SRAM 3x7 (or 3x8 or 3x9) hub, by Ian Sims
• Another good reference for handling Sachs/SRAM 3x7 hubs, from Bike Friday
• Karen and Pete crossed the Himalayas on a hand and foot combination Greenspeed tandem.
• Sheldon Brown's fantastic compendium of articles on bike technology, how-to's, how-it-work's, etc.
• Several people in the Tasmanian HPV enthusiasts club have greenspeeds.
• Lots of Australians too, of course, including the Queensland HPV enthusiasts and the Victorian HPV groups. These folks from Down Under are very inventive! Wander around their web sites to find lots of home-builts and ideas.
• Peter Carter's page shows a home-made nose-cone fairing on his single Greenspeed
• Jeff DelPapa's page at the bottom, shows modifications to the drive-train of a GS Tandem, which has several benefits.
• Shari Bernhard, owner of a new S&S coupled GTO wrote an article "Trike=FUN" for Bentrider Online, a relatively new online magazine for recumbent riders.
• Jeff McClean rode from Vietnam to England on his Greenspeed (and wrote and sells a book about it)!
• Dave Krafft built a rough Greenspeed clone
• Steve Thunder-McGuire is a storyteller who travels by recumbent, owner of a GTT.
• Joyce and Neil Hill of Ontario run a Bed and Breakfast and invite guests to ride with them. One of their bikes is a Bilenky-customized Greenspeed tandem.
• The International Human Powered Vehicles Association web page has links to email listserv's (and archives of them) for trikes. This is one of your best resources on the web.
• Another great online recumbent resource is Mark Matarella's recumbents.com
• Please contact Ian Sims at Greenspeed if you're willing to be a "Greenspeed test ride provider".
• This fellow, Rainer, has, or has test ridden and taken pictures of several interesting trikes and bikes including a Greenspeed. Web page is in German, with some good detail pics of modifications.
• This Japanese site has several nice detail pictures of GTO, which appears to have 16" front wheels and a 19" rear?
• Nick, a stroke victim, looks very happy using his slightly adapted Greenspeed to break barriers.
• Steve and Shanna aren't the first couple to sell a regular GTT for a GTT5S -- tandem with 5 S&S couplings and then go on an adventure with it...
• Two trike trip journals from the US West Coast.
• Karl A used his GTO on the fantastic looking Eco Trip in Finland 2001. There were many other nifty HPV's on the tour.
• Ways of building fairings for trikes:
  • My new canopy project to protect me on a week long ride.
  • How Giles built his composite fairing.
  • Delbert's fairing for his Scarab which he used to ride across the USA after being diagnosed with MS.
  • The WISIL projects page includes several fairing construction ideas.
  • Mark Mueller's Windrap fairings fit trikes (and Mark owns a Greenspeed GTO)
  • Karl Abbe's ZZipper fairings in "funny bike projects".
  • How David Lawson faired his Terratrike with Coroplast and Easybagger lawn bag holder-opener-thingies.
  • Fred Lenk's tail fairing for his Trice XLNT.
• Here are several shops which sell Greenspeeds (I'll open these in a new browser window in case they do something odd):
  • Rob and Carol Hague Westcountry Recumbents in Somerset England sell and ride Greenspeeds
  • St John Street Cycles, also in Somerset
  • Valley Bikes in Crawfordsville, Indiana now has Greenspeeds in stock
  • Peoplemovers in Orange, California sells Greenspeeds
  • Northeast Recumbents in Verona New Jersey
  • The Hostel Shoppe in Wisconsin (and here's a page of there's that shows how to insert yourself into a trike which has a Mueller Windwrap fairing
  • Here's an email address for Zach Kaplan, who rides and supports Greenspeeds
  • These and other dealers are listed on Greenspeed's dealers web page
  • John Olson's list of HPV resources
  • Mark Bunten in Monterey, CA rents a Greenspeed tandem, sells Greenspeeds and other recumbents, sponsors rides, and is hoping to reopen his (physical) shop soon.

• Pictures of my new Greenspeed GTO single trike
• Sometimes, you just can't ride...
• Towing an EZ3 behind my GTO
• Lots of folks got to test-ride my tandem at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel ride in October -- most of the pictures were taken at the Northernmost tunnel entrance, where the bike riders turned around.
• Here's Google's new search engine for images, Google, in this case, of Greenspeed.
• Here's a sun-shade, or canopy, or surrey with the fring on the top. Jim L created this for his WindCheetah, but I think similar techniques could be used on Greenspeeds.
• Brett B's Greenspeed customized with a roll bar and other amenities. Nice suite of pictures of a well-equipped trike.
• pictures uploaded to this site or gathered from other sites
• A few closeup pictures of my tandem, to show how things are put together
• pictures of all sorts of HPVs from a day at People Movers in CA
• Miscellaneous pictures of my Greenspeed tandem before and after I bought it, including how it fits on top of a Honda Civic
• People trying out the Greenspeed tandem at our Earthday 2001, parade. Includes 10 Quicktime(tm) videos of test riders
• People trying out the Greenspeed tandem at our Farmers Market, and other market activities, the morning after driving home from Missouri with it
• A couple of pictures from a Fall ride
• A few pictures of the GTT on a dock at Lake Griffy
• The 33rd Annual Hilly Hundred, in and near Bloomington, Indiana
• More Farmers Market pictures including a "rolling minstrel"

• Greenspeed Buyers resources (Greenspeed online, dealers, and sources of used trikes)
• Greenspeed vendor's web pages
• Greenspeed rider's web pages
• Greenspeed modifications, add-ons, and kits or clones -- how have you changed your Greenspeed? What have you added to it?
• How do you transport a Greenspeed? (trailers, racks, suitcases (for S&S coupled trikes) and how to ship a trike)
• Things people have done with/on their Greenspeeds, ride reports, trips, tours, etc.
• Greenspeed mailing list archives (if we create a mailing list)
• other recumbent sites and info

If you have print or slide photographs of Greenspeeds or accessories, I will happily scan/digitize them, send you digital copies, and (if you allow), upload a copy to link to this web page, and send your original back to you. Email me about that also. If you have digital photos, HTML, text, or movies, contact me at the link above and I'll give you a different address to email or upload them to.