After over four years of fun an excitement the Berserker tricycle will no longer be offered for sale.

We would like to thank our many loyal customers and followers.

Berserker Cycle Design to proud to announce that we are now offering customers the ability to purchase custom bicycle and tricycle components.  We have in-house fabrication and machining capability that allows us to produce single parts or small runs of custom made parts to your needs.  You can leverage our knowledge and manufacturing expertise to make that custom component you need but can’t find anywhere else.

Contact Brian Gobrogge for more information:  b.gobrogge@berserkercycle.com

Limited quantity available as we are clearing these out below cost for $99 each.  Bought OEM New for our product development, but never used. No documentation included.

Specifications:  8×24mm bushing,  50mm stroke, 180mm eye spacing, 200psi max, Adjustable rebound.

Contact:  Brian   b.gobrogge@berserkercycle.com for additional details.

X-Fusion 02RL 50x180mm air shock

We are proud to be voted the winner of the best recumbent award during the 45th Annual Great Western Bicycle Rally. There were over 1500 participants at the rally that was held in Paso Robles, California.

When Adam Stephens flew over a 12-foot ledge on his mountain bike two years ago, he had no idea the resulting injury would spin off a business.

Stephens, an avid cyclist, broke the front end of his mountain bike and compressed two disks in his lower back, which made traditional cycling too painful for him. Stephens used his injury as a catalyst to create a prototype for an off-road, recumbent tricycle that could tackle the terrain he loved while taking the pressure off his spine. “The original trikes just didn’t fit me,” he said.

The result was the Berserker trike, which is a beefed-up version of a normal recumbent tricycle. The trike’s wheels can handle obstacles of up to 6 inches with its suspension, and has a wide reclining seat with more than an inch of foam padding on the back, which Stephens said was crucial to distribute weight evenly.

“On a normal bike, you’re applying all your weight in a critical zone,” he said.

There are other companies that sell recumbent trikes, but Stephens said Berserker is the only company tackling the off-road concept. “Just about anything that gets in your way, it can handle,” he said.

The young company was formed after Stephens met Brian Gobrogge at an MIT Enterprise Forum in Santa Barbara in April 2008. Gobrogge has helped take numerous products to market for clients such as Miller Brewing, Proctor & Gamble and Merck Pharmaceutical, and offered to help Stephens with the trike.

“We sat across the table from each other, hit it off right away, and within a couple of months we had formed Berserker,” he said. In the past 10 months, they’ve been working on prototyping the tricycle, which is now available to the public.

Stephens is a faculty member at Cal Poly in industrial technology, and has his shop set up to make the trikes in a workshop in San Luis Obispo, where two interns help him build the trikes. Gobrogge handles marketing of the bike in Santa Barbara. The company makes tubing for the frame of the trike, cutting it to length, bend and weld the frame together.

Gobrogge says one of the most effective ways to get people interested in the trike is just riding it out in the community. “It always gets a lot of attention when we take it out in public,” he said. The trike has been a hit at several Earth Day events, including the one in Santa Barbara.

The Berserker’s wheels can handle obstacles of up to 6 inches with its suspension, and has a wide reclining seat with more than an inch of foam padding on the back. (Brian Gobrogge photo / Berserker Cycle Design)

The original prototype was made of aluminum, but the frames that the pair brought to market and now sell to the public are made of recyclable Cro-Moly steel.

“That steel is very recyclable,” Gobrogge said, and more if it can be reclaimed as a frame made of aluminum. The trike is also equipped with a heavy-duty rack that can handle up to 150 pounds and is tied directly into the main frame. The ability to carry that much cargo has garnered interest from the Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Department, he said, as well as several organic farmers looking at the trikes for hauling produce and equipment.

The trikes start at about $5,000. Gobrogge said the biggest market so far, according to surveys the company has conducted, is riders about 55 years old. “As cyclists get older, it’s really common to see people with carpal tunnel and problems with their fingers,” he said. The trike also appeals to people who have balancing problems or never learned to ride a traditional bike.

As for the price, “It’s a lot cheaper to put a $5,000 new tricycle in your garage than a new Porsche,” he said.

Gobrogge said the Berserker team will make the rounds at community events, including the Santa Barbara Bicycle Festival at Elings Park on June 5-7, where would-be riders can try the trike.

“At first, they’re scared of it, because it looks so different,” he said. “But they all come back with big grins on their faces.”

— Noozhawk staff writer Lara Cooper can be reached at lcooper@noozhawk.com.

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The Ride to Conquer Cancer is a 200km cycling journey from Toronto to Niagara Falls benefiting The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. Your awareness, care, and generosity, will be real positive step to make an effort to cure this disease and make a difference in someone’s life!

Brian Foley says ” I had wondered if I would be able to participate in the ride at all due to difficulties stemming from my own medical issues. Staying safe and particularly upright seems to be the challenge for me….. Thank you Berserker for making it plausible for me to ride!”

Help Conquer Cancer, by Supporting Brian Foley’s Ride to Conquer Cancer.

We at Berserker Cycle Design believe in helping others, Help Brian achieve his dream of riding for Cancer by Donating at his page:   http://www.conquercancer.ca/goto/berserkerbrianfoley

Sincerly,

Adam and Brian

Source: 2008.10.14 Fall 2008 Cal Poly Alumni E-NeCal Poly E-Newsletter Fall 2008

The Berserker Story. Many of you who have visited campus recently know Adam Stephens, who got an MS degree in the program a year ago……Adam has always been interested in off-road cycling. He developed a passion for designing and fabricating an off-road trike that enables people with minor disabilities to have a somewhat more stable platform to attack mountain trails. During 2006-2007 Adam developed the design, fabricated the trike, field-tested it, and tweaked the design. During the 2007-2008 academic year there were further design modifications, and considerable media attention…..

Source: 2008.07.01  Summer 2008 Cal Poly Magazine - Hot Shot

Adam Stephens’ outlook on a favorite pastime changed one day along the slopes of California’s Mt. Diablo. That’s when the Cal Poly industrial technology professor accidentally plunged his mountain bike off a l2-foot vertical drop, shearing offhis bike’s front fork and pulverizing the rear - leaving him splayed on the ground, writhing in pain. Stephens was afraid he would never ride a mountain bike again, at least not in comfort, due to a slipped spinal disk…..Two years ago, Stephens began developing a trike designed specifically for back pain sufferers: “The Berserkeri’ a recumbent, off-road tricycle that minimizes prostate and back pain, as well as palm and foot numbness. “The trike makes you feel like you’re almost floating above the terraini’ Stephens says. Suspension systems on each wheel absorb shock and prevent body pain, while larger-than-average wheels allow the trike to roll over big objects….

Original Content taken down by request of Berserker Cycle Design.

Source: 2008.02.14 Orfalea Business College & Alumni Magazine - Spring 2008

A Cal Poly Industrial Technology Instructor and graduate students of the Orfalea College of Business began testing the riding comfort of a newly developed off-road tricycle around campus…..The “Berserker” Trike sports two front wheels an one rear, all with their own shock absorbers.  It also has larger wheels than most traditional tricycles and the handle bars are positioned under the seat.