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Performer Trike-X

Posted on February 18, by Bryan Ball

By BRYAN J. BALLManaging Editor 

  People “in the know” are well aware of the Perfomer brand of recumbent bikes and trikes.

More casual riders have probably never heard of them. They don’t get the press and respect that most of the mainstream brands do, but they’ve been quietly building budget-priced recumbents in Taiwan for over a decade now. For years, most of their products came to US shores with someone else’s name on it via third party Internet resellers.

Some of them still do but most Performers sold in the US now proudly display the Performer name on them.

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And now, many of them are available from a handful of actual recumbent dealers who can provide real customer support to buyers.

Perhaps the most prominent of these dealers is Recumbent Bike Riders (RBR) in State College, Pennsylvania.

Performer products have been available on the shop’s floor for quite some time now but now RBR is taking it one step further. Th