Welcome to the Ryan Owners Club!

News:

Please have a look at the bike that could have been, Dick Ryan's Above-Seat-Steering Taiwan prototype

At the bottom of the Ryan Owners Club pages you will notice advertisements for web hosting. This is the hosting provider that we use, and the appearance of the ads serves two purposes. 1. Paul really likes this provider, who provides a great service at a very reasonable price, so he wants to share that with others who may want to build a site for themselves. 2. If people sign up for service by clicking on the ads, then Ryan Owners Club gets a commission which can help offset the operational costs of this site, which are currently borne by Paul and Bob out-of-pocket. If you have any questions about setting up your own site, Paul is happy to offer advice.

The Ryan Owners Club site now has a "Tips" area, a link to which can be found on the header of each page on the site. If you have a tip to submit, please send it to Bob, the compiler of Ryan tips.

See video from Wisil's Bryant Tucker 100 which took place in Northbrook, IL, hosted here at ryanownersclub.com

See photos from the MHPVA's 2003 Rally which took place in Waterford, MI, hosted here at ryanownersclub.com

This site was created by Bob Krzewinski (of the WolverBents recumbent rider group) and Paul Bruneau as a source of information for owners of bicycles designed or built by Ryan Recumbent Cycles. Owners of similar bikes (such as Longbikes, Infinity, DeFelice and of course, the father of them all, the Avatar 2000) may find some good information here, too.

To help with some of this information, we have set up a Yahoo! Group called "ryanownersclub". Membership is open to anyone. There is a mailing list, but archived messages can also be read at the group page. The Ryan Owners Club also has a database, which we can use as a kind of a guestbook that will provide information about the bikes that are out there. It is one of Paul's goals to learn as much about the different Ryan (and Avatar) bikes as possible (things like how many are still in service, which serial numbers were built when, etc.)

Paul has been able to gather a good deal of material that he hopes to add to the site over time. In the beginning, the History section will have a large amount of material, which is going to grow. The scrapbook section is starting to be loaded with pictures related to our favorite bike.

If you would like to make a contribution to our content, please write to Bob or Paul. If you have a question or technical issue about the site itself, please write to Paul.

This site could not be what it is without the kind help of Dick Ryan, Karl Ryan, Bob Bryant, Kelvin Clark and David Gordon Wilson. Thank you all.