In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Steve Robson was very active in HPV building and the Michigan HPV Association, including a stint as vice president, even though he lived in Glencoe, Ontario, Canada.
He also wrote and published two books about HPVs, including making all the drawings.
Steve went on to other interests, but occasionally would still get inquiries from people who wanted to build a recumbent. He would send them the text and some drawings.
To make it easier for anyone to access his "The Home Builders Guide to Constructing a Recumbent Bicycle," he sent me (Mike Eliasohn) the text and some illustrations. I did some editing and added some photos. Then Paul Bruneau, who fixes all the technological problems with this blog, re-formatted it into a pdf document available right here.
Remember, this book dates to 1998 / 2001, so some sources and references may be out of date, out of business or no longer available. And one big change in bicycle technology since then is now common use of disk brakes on manufactured bikes, which may be a factor in choosing which bikes to cut up to rebuild into a recumbent.
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