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1.0 Introduction.
Congratulations on being a new ICE trike owner. You have purchased the finest, most refined
recumbent tricycle available today; we hope it brings you many years of enjoyment.
This manual has been written to help you set up and use your trike. Recumbent trikes may be a
little different from the cycles you are familiar with, so please take a moment to read through this
document. You will find the latest version of this manual in a download-able PDF format on our
website.
Throughout the manual, we have included some Tips, which have been learned from over 20 years
of experience building trikes. They are well worth taking special note of.
If you have never worked on a bike before, you should consider purchasing a good book on bicycle
maintenance. The ICE trikes use as many standard bicycle components as possible, and their
adjustment and maintenance is no different from an upright bicycle. We can recommend Lennard
Zinn’s “Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance” as a thorough and easy-to-read reference.
If you are assembling your trike for the first time, please refer to the ICE Trikes Assembly Manual.
We hope you enjoy owning and riding your ICE trike as much as we like making these great
machines.
The ICE team
1.1 Overview
