This is my main recumbent frame back from the powder coaters. Paint was showing it’s age and a few surface rust spots. Now good as new. It was an understated black before, and now it’s somewhat bolder. It’s a steel frame and weighs 2.5kg, thus about 1kg heavier than your typical road bike frame weight. Not an amount that really matters. Booked in for new headset cups to be pressed onto frame on Saturday, then re-assembly time.
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Had new headset cups (traditional 1 1/8”) pressed into head tube and new crown race for forks fitted at local bike shop. One job I don’t do myself as it requires specialist tools and it’s not something you do very often.
Then reassembly at home this afternoon. My main recumbent is beginning to look like a bike again. Drive train tomorrow before things like bottle cages and lights etc. Then new orange bar tape when everything else done and hands clean again.
The old frame colour was black, but decided I’d go bold rather than grow old with the new powder coat.
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Without trying to turn this into a bike building thread 
Finished off drive train including new gear inners and outers, new chain, new rear derailleur (old one damaged) etc. Then got my first couple of test rides in on the rebuild. Boom was too far out / pedal reach too far / legs too straight with cranks in 3 o’clock position, plus handlebars not quite straight on first test ride. Second test ride handlebars were straight with the tiniest adjustment and boom and pedal reach almost there, pedal stroke much smoother. Hopefully I’ll achieve that just right feeling for the pedal reach and stroke tomorrow.
New bar tape now added, and I’ve gone with orange to complement the green frame,
Oh and I give my bikes nicknames (doesn’t everyone) and it has been rechristened The Green Hornet. Nice to have the power meter bike back
You get a better idea of the recline from this angle.
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