Lightning Cycle Dynamics

Lightning Bikes
Manufacturer Lightning Cycle Dynamics
Cycle line recumbent bicycles
Incorporated 1992
Status In production
Website www.lightningbikes.com

Lightning is a brand of recumbent bicycles produced by Lightning Cycle Dynamics based in Lompoc, California, United States. In 1979 the first Lightning recumbent was built by three students from Northrop Institute of Technology - Tim Brummer, Don Guichard and Chris Dreike. In 1981 Brummer won the Abbott prize in a Lightning recumbent for the first human-powered vehicle to break the then-common speed limit of 55 mph.[1] A four-man team set the fastest time for the 1989 Race Across America, a record that still stands.[2] They have also won the STP (Seattle to Portland) Challenge, among other achievements.[3] Today Lightning Cycle Dynamics produces recumbent bicycles and carbon cranks. Many of the bikes are made in the U.S.

Models

They also make handcycles and cranksets.

References

  1. ↑ Hadland, Tony (2014). Bicycle Design, An Illustrated History. The MIT Press. p. 489. ISBN 978-0-262-02675-8. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "RAAM Record Holders". RAAM. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Lightning R-84 review". Recumbent and Tandem Rider magazine. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

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