babes. Whatever; he went on to build another chopper, for its own sake. This one, what you'd have to call a ULWRB (Ultra-Long Wheelbase Recumbent Bicycle), but  don't expect to see this baby in the IHPVA site! It's of more sophisticated design than his previous machine; having what is probably the world's longest springer fork.

Dov Jelen's Latest Chopper: Length Matters.

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babes. Whatever; he went on to build another chopper, for its own sake. This one, what you'd have to call a ULWRB (Ultra-Long Wheelbase Recumbent Bicycle), but  don't expect to see this baby in the IHPVA site! It's of more sophisticated design than his previous machine; having what is probably the world's longest springer fork.

Dov Jelen is a sculptor/digital artist who happened into building these things as a conceptual art thing. When he built his first chopper trike (Bottom Left), it was a kind of play on the visigoth image that chopper motos convey. By building a radical pedal-driven tricycle, he was bringing the image into a childish, non-threatening,  perspective. It was pretty successful as a piece of conceptual sculpture. Then, I think, he discovered that riding on the thing was a pretty cool way of meeting the

Photographs Copyright 1998 by Dov S. Jelen