Editing Recumbent bicycle (section)

===1970s resurgence and the IHPVA===
While developments had been made in this fallow period by Paul Rinkowski and others, the modern recumbent movement was given a boost in 1969 when the ''Ground Hugger'' by Robert Riley was featured in [[Popular Mechanics]].<ref name=LightHist>{{cite web|title=History of the Modern Recumbent|url=https://www.lightningbikes.com/riders/martin-krieg/recumbent-history/index.html|publisher=Lightning Bikes|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> There was also the work of [[Chester Kyle]] and particularly [[David Gordon Wilson]] of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], two Americans who opposed the UCI restrictions and continued to work on fairings and recumbents. In 1974, they also nucleated the International Human Power speed Championship in [[Long Beach, California]], from which the [[IHPVA]] grew. Kyle and his students had been experimenting with fairings for upright bicycles, also banned by the UCI.  In 1975 the brothers John and Randy Schlitter started producing recumbents at their company, [[Rans Designs|Rans]], and became the first U.S. company to do so.<ref name=LightHist />

In 1978, the "Vélérique" is the very first commercialized recumbent bicycle (fully faired), by the Belgian Erik Abergen.

The Avatar 2000, a LWB bike very much like the current Easy Racers products, arrived in 1979. It was featured in the [[Brainstorm (1983 film)|1983 film Brainstorm]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ryanownersclub.com/scrapbook/avatar/brainstorm/|title=Ryan Owners Club - Avatar 200 - Brainstorm}}</ref> ridden by Christopher Walken, and in the popular cycling reference ''Richard's Bicycle Book'' by [[Richard Ballantine]]. From 1983 to 1991 Steven Roberts toured the U.S. in a modified Avatar, pulling a trailer with solar panels and a laptop, gaining press coverage and writing the book ''Computing Across America''.<ref name=LightHist /> A faired Avatar 2000 was the first two-wheeler to beat the European Vector three-wheeler in the streamliner races. For about ten years afterward, speed records were exchanged between Easy Racers with Freddy Markham in the cockpit and the Lightning Team. So America's strength became the flying 200 meter sprint in the streamliner division. The oil crises of the 1970s sparked a resurgence in cycling coincident with the arrival of these "new" designs.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

A parallel but somewhat separate scene grew up in Europe, with the first European human power championships being held in 1983. The European scene was more dominated by competition than was the US, with the result that European bikes are more likely to be low SWB machines, while LWB are much more popular in the US (although there have been some notable European LWB bikes, such as the Peer Gynt).{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}