Projects Overview
To date, I have built 3 complete, working recumbent trikes from scratch. I have built shells around two of those, and have built two different shells on a Catrike Pocket trike, one of which got modified once. The five iterations you see above are as follows, from left to right:
- 2011 Trike Trek '11 Velo (leftmost picture): My first Velomobile, a PVC skeleton around a self-built trike with coroplast skin.
- 2014 Catrike CoroVelo V1 (middle left picture): My second velomobile - a PVC skeleton around a Catrike pocket with orange coroplast skin.
- 2015 Catrike CoroVelo V2 (middle picture): My first attempt at an all-coroplast build (no PVC skeleton) - this greatly reduced the overall weight and improved the aesthetics, and I also was able to integrate an air intake from the nose to the rider.
- 2016 Catrike CoroVelo V 2.1 (middle right picture): A modification of the previous shell was made to make the cap more rigid, rounded off the top, and created a sharper taper in the rear and also shortened the entire shell. All of this was done in an attempt to improve the aerodynamics and I felt like it worked!
- 2018 Torus Prototype (rightmost picture): My second-ever full build. Custom steel frame with ridiculously low seating position and narrow track with a full-coroplast fairing. This velomobile was fast, but very impractical due to the low seating position so it never saw much use before disassembly. I will revisit a racing velomobile in the future with a very different approach to the fairing.
- 2021 326 E-Velo (No pictures yet - in progress!): This will be my third full-build, and my first of which I'll document via a video series AND create DIY plans for. It will also be my first velomobile to feature electric assist, and a seat for a passenger!
- 2014 Catrike CoroVelo V1 (middle left picture): My second velomobile - a PVC skeleton around a Catrike pocket with orange coroplast skin.
- 2015 Catrike CoroVelo V2 (middle picture): My first attempt at an all-coroplast build (no PVC skeleton) - this greatly reduced the overall weight and improved the aesthetics, and I also was able to integrate an air intake from the nose to the rider.
- 2016 Catrike CoroVelo V 2.1 (middle right picture): A modification of the previous shell was made to make the cap more rigid, rounded off the top, and created a sharper taper in the rear and also shortened the entire shell. All of this was done in an attempt to improve the aerodynamics and I felt like it worked!
- 2018 Torus Prototype (rightmost picture): My second-ever full build. Custom steel frame with ridiculously low seating position and narrow track with a full-coroplast fairing. This velomobile was fast, but very impractical due to the low seating position so it never saw much use before disassembly. I will revisit a racing velomobile in the future with a very different approach to the fairing.
- 2021 326 E-Velo (No pictures yet - in progress!): This will be my third full-build, and my first of which I'll document via a video series AND create DIY plans for. It will also be my first velomobile to feature electric assist, and a seat for a passenger!
Hover over the "Projects" tab in the navigation bar to see details on each build named above!