What customers say about the P-38...

I just purchased a used 1998 P-38. My first turn of the wheel was yesterday in the Seattle to Portland two day ride. A two hundred mile test ride.
My bike is an XL with the suspension front fork. It definitely climbs better than my Tour Easy.

Kip Milam
Chehalis, WA
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The Lightning is much faster in rolling hills than my road bike. (He also pretty much repeated what Pete said above)

Bob Fourney
3 times RAAM winner
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My daily commute, either an 8 mile ride from Mill Valley to Sausalito, or a 19 mile ride into downtown San Francisco,
has been absolutely a delight.
Two thumbs up.

Ken Lisaka
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I just wanted to tell you how pleased I've been with my P-38. I ordered it via Rob at RBR early this year (a Large frame built to XL weight specs in green), and have since ridden it in a 200k/300k/400k/600k brevet series, at least a half-dozen centuries, more metrics than I can remember, and, as of last weekend, a 1000k brevet called "Endless Mountains" in Eastern PA with over 40,000 ft; of climbing. Oh, yeah, and commuting 40 miles round trip a couple days per week.

 So far, I've put about 4000 miles on the bike, and the only things I've worn out were the seat mesh and the power-side idler, both probably due to putting a lot of power into the climbing. Frankly, I've put that bike through a lot, and it's performed admirably and without complaint.

So, long story short, thanks again for a great bike.

Dan Blumenfeld

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Here is an update of adventures on my P-38 so far this year.

My P-38's second weeklong outing was Cycle Oregon. Over that week I rode 430 miles and gained about 24,000 feet.

As always, my P-38 was an absolute pleasure to ride. After one of several many mile, fast, twisty downhill runs, when I pulled over for a break one of the upright riders who passed said, "Gee, you're really agile on that bike." Indeed!

Thanks for the great bike,

Jay

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I did my first ride on my P-38 on Saturday, a 62 mile organized ride that we do every year.

I was tremendously pleased with the bike. How could I not be? I averaged over one half mph faster over the 62 miles that with any other bike I've ridden upright or recumbent.

I'm still working out some rattles and trying to get the seat back tight enough, but I can tell that it's going to be a great season of riding. The P-38 is a real thoroughbred.

Thanks for all your help in getting my bike together.

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Hello! This is Hector Sanchez from Argentina. I bought a P38 a time ago from RBR, in State College, as you might remember. I want to let you know that the bike has 35.000 km. already, and it had satisfaction me lots of times. By now is a little old and it is showing the much use it has. I'm participating in bike-tours meetings in my country with road cyclists.

I'm sending you some pictures and I want you to know that in the last December I crossed again the Andes cordillera . I crossed to Chile and then I returned by the extend and hard way up In the meetings that I'm participating, I do it with a lot of cyclists, about 120 and 350, most of them; and in most of them, my P38 is the only one. We travel for one or two days and we do 90 to 350 km approximately at a velocity of 30Kms/hours. In this moment I'm training to be able to participate in a huge event in which I will travel from Buenos Aires, the capital of my country, to Cordoba, the state where I live.

Good bye! And congratulations for this bicycle, that had satisfactioned me lots of times.

Hector Sanchez from Argentina.

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I am happy to report that my venerable P-38 recently went over 20,000 miles. This has been my all-time favorite bike and has been commuted, toured, and ridden fast on club rides. The milestone was passed this past weekend at the bentrideronline.com rally in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

While I was at the bentrideronline.com rally, I had the opportunity to ride lots of bikes: high racers, low racers, you name it. The P-38 is still my favorite.

Bob

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After a year in which I owned a BikeE FX/RX and/or a Challenge Taifun ... with many trial rides on a GRR, P-38 and other recumbents ... today I took my new Lightning P-38 XT for its first road ride. right out of the box the P-38 is a wonderful recumbent. It is very light, fast and responsive, with a fluid transfer of power from body to legs to pedals. It has the adjustable steering riser, bar end shifters and the extremely comfortable Lightning seat.

Just about everything on this recumbent seems to"fit" me almost perfectly. For me at least, the P-38 appears to be a one-bike solution that's much preferable to either a quasi-low-racer or an upright, low bottom bracket recumbent.

Bob Siegel in Gainesville FL

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