HP Velotechnik has unveiled on their site the new ErgoMesh HS seat for their Scorpion line of recumbent trikes. The HS stands for "high seat" (hochsitz) and certainly lives up to the moniker providing an 18" seat height on the Scorpion fx and just under 16" on an fs.

The additional height, however, comes with a limitation:

We mentioned a while back two very important things. First, that RBR is the exclusive northeast dealer for Carbent HPV. Second, that we had a Carbent in the shop. Now we have the next very important thing - photos!

Before we get to the pics, let's remind everyone that a functional Carbent Raven clocks in at 19 pounds. 19 pounds! It's the only bike in the shop that requires little to no effort to hang on the wall or put up on a ledge. My high school book bag weighed more than this thing.

YouTube contributor harwig has uploaded video from Cycle Vision 2009, specifically of the one hour race. I've never before seen so many different types of recumbents in the span of two minutes sixteen seconds.

Present at the rally with his folding recumbent bike was Rich Sadler. Not present was yours truly to get details while he was actually there in person. We've asked Rich to give us some info to post here so others can learn about the folder he has built and what's next for his folding bents.

RBR gets somewhat regular visits from the fine folks at Google. This has not helped us much in our search engine rankings, but it does mean that when the Street View trike is in town, we get an opportunity to chat with Google's designated rider and snap a photo of the all seeing eye.