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The Avatar 2000, a LWB bike very much like the current Easy Racers products, arrived in 1979, and is often considered the first modern production recumbent.

It was featured in the 1983 film Brainstorm, ridden by Christopher Walken, and in the popular cycling reference Richard's Bicycle Book by Richard Ballantine.

A faired Avatar 2000 was the first two-wheeler to beat the European Vector three-wheeler in the streamliner races.

For about ten years afterward, speed records were exchanged between Easy Racers with Freddy Markham in the cockpit and the Lightning Team.

So America's strength became the flying 200 meter sprint in the streamliner division.

The oil crises of the 1970s sparked a resurgence in cycling coincident with the arrival of these " new " designs.