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New ICE pricing on March 1, 2016

ICE is revising prices for 2016. Some prices are up, some are down.

In general, prices of Full-Fat and VTX-related items have come down due to improvements in the manufacturing process and prices of standard Adventure and Sprint-related models have gone up.

27 Feb 2016 - 8:05am

ICE

Catrike price increases

This just in from Catrike...

Price increase on Road, Trail and Villager March 1, 2016

New Pricing effective March 1, 2016

18 Feb 2016 - 9:07pm

catrike.com

Catrike

ICE shows Fat, racks, apparel, and support for electric-assist at RCC

ICE owners Chris Parker and Neil Selwood both came in person to the Recumbent CycleCon show in Cincinnati (Sep 25-27, 2015). They brought one of their surprisingly popular Full Fat all-terrain trikes and a representative lineup of ICE models:

29 Sep 2015 - 10:46am

HP Velotechnik
ICE
Rohloff
Schlumpf

New GT20 folding recumbent trike with 20" wheels by Greenspeed

Greenspeed is developing a new trike platform to replace its GT1, GT3, and GT5 series of folding recumbent trikes for 2016. The new platform (currently known only as "GT20") was shown publicly complete with test rides of a prototype at the Recumbent Cycle Con convention in Cincinnati.

27 Sep 2015 - 3:08pm

Greenspeed

Sun-Seeker full-suspension "Fat" trike

Sun-seeker showed a new full-suspension "Fat" trike at Interbike.

The display model was just that. We did not get a chance to actually ride it, but did spend some time examining it and asking questions.

18 Sep 2015 - 9:12am

Sun-Seeker

Catrike introduces full-suspension folding trike with 26" drivewheel

Catrike has introduced a new trike to compete head-to-head with the ICE and HP Velotechnik full-suspension folding trikes.

This trike, dubbed "Dumont", is full-suspension with Catrike-style. It melds the

17 Sep 2015 - 7:27am

Catrike

New tadpole trike fits shorter riders

HP Velotechnik has announced a new trike specifically designed for people under 5'-11". This trike will be introduced at the 2015 Interbike show 9/16-18.

The first Gekko FXS in the United States will be available for test-rides shortly thereafter at AlphaBENT in Sacramento, CA.

24 Aug 2015 - 9:23am

hpvelotechnik.com

HP Velotechnik

Recumbent Tandem Rider #50 -- 2015 Summer

Issue #50 of Recumbent Tandem Rider Magazine is in the shop now. Features articles include:

25 Jul 2015 - 8:16pm

Bacchetta

Bacchetta bikes in Northern California

AlphaBENT is now selling Bacchetta recumbent bikes!

With the shop fairly saturated with trikes, we have found that we haven't been adequately serving the two-wheel recumbent market.

9 Jun 2015 - 9:40am

Bacchetta

ICE Running Improvements / 2014-2015 model-year changes

One of the sillier things we've inherited from the auto industry is the concept of "model-years". The "model-year" is a fabrication arbitrarily used by the auto-makers to make their own products prematurely obsolete.

25 Jan 2015 - 6:10pm

ICE

Azub introduces "optional" hinge technology for 2015

To fold, or not to fold... this is the question.

5 Jan 2015 - 7:26pm

Azub

New product: Gekko FX26 folding recumbent trike, HP Velotechnik

St Charles, IL: HP Velotechnik introduced a new high-performance folding trike into a booming trike market.

The Gekko FX-26 has the foldability of the proven Gekko travel-trike, but now gets the better-efficiency, comfort, and handling performance of a 26" drive-wheel.

12 Oct 2014 - 11:30am