Kites aside, Nop's also an experienced recumbent bike builder. Here's a neat little CLWB bike, that he built after that 2-year long recumbent tour in the USA and the Far East; ergo one that somehow sums up his empirically- gained and -verified knowledge of what makes a recumbent (not) tick.
    The world- tour one was somewhat longer, not as compact as this one. Observe the homemade rear suspension in the form of two spring- loaded seat stays and pivoting chain stays. The holder in the middle is for a 1.5 litre PET-bottle. On the previous model, with the BB not as close to the wheel as above, the front fork was equipped with similar holders, one each side, for water bottles needed to cross often arid stretches of the USA. (Michèle wrote a book about that their experience, "Pedalling Unknown Paths", ISBN: 0 86332 958 6).

    Since this picture was taken in 1992, I understand, that the bike has been stolen, and therefore Nop has built himself a new one, presumably all- stainless steel, as once was his intention.