Mr Porter has 3 recumbent design including a 700c/650c Lowracer, 700c/700c High Racer and a 26″/406 Touring bike. Good explanation and blueprints presented for each bike. The Atomic Zombie site offer 37 digital plans at a small fee for each. These plans are aimed at the home builder. Plans are supplied in PDF format with pictures and good description of each step. Bikes and trikes are generally built of donor bike parts. There is also an enthusiastic support forum with many experienced builders online.Atomic Zombie also sells some home builder parts. Recycled Recumbent offers plans for a recumbent commonly known as a TE Clone. The online plans are free. If you don’t want to build from scratch you can buy just a frame set from Mr Carson. Plans for the most comfortable recumbent seat I have used are located here also. History has shown this style bike to be one of the longest designs around.The pages of Recycled Recumbent is a wonderful resource for any builder. The drawings andspecifications offered on this web page are for building an advanced version of the tried and trueThunderbolt Sports Recumbent Trike.  The original design dates back to 1994.  However, even today the performance of this trike is still impressive.  I am confident that you shall find my documents exceed in quality and detail to any plans available free or not. by Keith Moss This is just one of the many plans by home builders found on the  forum.I thought it would fun to make a flipped frame recumbent.I used a ladies bike for the rear flipped upside down.The front is a men’s frame flipped for more rake.Here it is in mock up before welding. No jig needed to hold it together.Only 4 welds to make this frame. My buddy welded it up in about 15 minutes and was happy with $20 I gave him. Another free source of TE Clone plans on the . This instructable details how to construct a fast, inexpensive recumbent bike from one 1980’s-era road bike plus some bits off a scrap bike. You should be able tobuild this for around $100 less paint. I plan to document how to build the kid’s version shown in the video in the future. Offering plans for building a trike will only teach you how to build one. However, once armed with the information on making a great trike; you will appreciate the compromises and risks associated with designing your own trike. If your desire is building a trike from a set of existing comprehensive plans, check out my Thunderbolt /Spitfire recumbent trike plans at A Recumbent Bicycle You Build From Plans This unique human powered vehicle was developed and patented in the mid 1960s, and first introduced as “Ground Hugger” in a special plans offering by Popular Mechanics magazine. Ground Hugger’s sleek lines and elegant mechanical design captured the interest of bicycle manufacturers, worldwide. I am somewhat dismayed by the number of faired HPV projects that turn out badly and and never used or only used a couple of times. One of the goals of the  site has been toprovide enough information about how to build a good fairing that it would allow someone to build one that actually works for them the first time. This web page will bring many of the thoughts, tips and recommendations together into one place. Edgar K Atkins freely gives some great plans including a lowracerr, a FWD MBB and a very versitile curved wood seat. Very good information and well presented. Jetrike is a front wheel drive (FWD) tilting delta trike design that features self-centering tilt geometry. Its tilting mechanism works independently from the steering. The idea is to use the riders weight to remain centered as the trike becomes stationary. Check out the latest video on . (new)The project began with a quest to answer a seemingly impossible question: can a tilting mechanism be found for a FWD delta trike that will improve cornering speed, eliminate shimmy and also be self-centering? The only way I managed to find a solution was by spending countless hours doing CADsimulations. This manual aims to help you in making your own recumbent bicycle. Free PDF format. Recumbent Building 101 eliminates complicated Plans, Blueprints and thick Manuals.  Our easy to follow DVD videos walk you through the frame building process in building your own recumbent bicycle.  Each step of the building process is shown in clear up close video, using easy to follow instructions.  You are shown where to measure, cut  and fit each part.  It’s as if you hired a private consultant to come right to your home and show you how.SWB and LWB versions available. No welding, done in a few spare hours,this bike is made from 2 old mountain-bikes (mtb).It took me about 2 plus 3 hours Plans for a no welding required recumbent trike. by Mark Rehorst This is a very good tutorial for building a carbon fiber based SWB bike. I did a special section on no weld trikes like the N55 Project elsewhere on this site. Here is a very simple recumbent bike that you can build in a few hours usingnothing more than a kid’s bike and a few lengths of round tubing. This project makes a good starter recumbent and is a good experimenter’s platform for those who want to try out various seating positions and angles – by Warren Beauchamp Another TE Clone project by Warren Beauchamp. Good instructions. Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell Table Cell