2025 Recumbent Calendar Contest Winners
I want to give a heartfelt thanks to everyone who entered the 2025 Recumbent Calendar Contest this year and to all of you who voted. I think this is the best batch of photo submissions yet and I am really going to have fun putting this calendar together. As I was sitting in my office receiving your entries via email, I felt like I was sharing a journey with all of you. Whether you were riding for health reasons, therapy, bucket list rides, sharing rides with pets, epic journeys, or riding your local trails for exercise and fun, you really brought home the many reasons to ride a trike and the beauty of the planet we live on. So, I just want to say, thanks for sharing your adventures and being a part of the Hostel Shoppe family. I hope you enjoy this years calendar as much as I do.
Take care, Jessie Bostic - Hostel Shoppe Marketing Manager
And the Winners Are...
1st Place with 91 votes - David Geisler
David Geisler doing some Christmas riding in Lakeville, Minnesota. Winter is here! Submission and photo by: David Geisler
2nd Place with 88 votes - Cynthia Schmitz
Cynthia Schmitz rides her recumbent through spectacular scenery at the Colorado National Monument in Colorado. Submission by: Cynthia Schmitz, Photo by: Janae Hunziker
3rd Place with 82 votes - Deb Kiser
Deb Kiser riding the Dillon Reservoir Recreational Path near Dillon, Colorado. Dillon Reservoir is in the background. Submission and photo by: Deb Kiser
4th Place with 80 votes - Larry Varney
Larry Varney enjoys the dawn of a wonderful day in Campbell County, Kentucky. Submission and photo by: Larry Varney
5th Place with 66 votes - Tracy LaLuzerne
Tracy LaLuzerne and her ICE trike stop to enjoy a unique rock structure on Lake Michigan just south of Carthage College on the Kenosha lakeshore in Wisconsin. Submission and photo by: Tracy LaLuzerne
6th & 7th Place tie with 62 votes - Martene Kwiatkowski
It All Starts on a Trike! Martene and Dan Kwiatkowski stop in front of a fun, beautiful painted mural along the underpass on the Oconomowoc Area Bike Path depicting the joy of cycling in Wisconsin. Submission by: Martene Kwiatkowski, Photo by: Shane Kwiatkowski
6th & 7th Place tie with 62 votes - Sandra Sumner
Sandra Sumner stops on a trail in her neighborhood of Blaine, Minnesota to take a picture of a beautiful sunset, her ICE Adventure HD with electric assist and her riding buddy Cody. Sandra says she purchased her ICE in May of 2019 and has over 17,000 miles on her trike. Way to go, Sandra! Submission and photo by: Sandra Sumner
8th, 9th & 10th Place Tie with 59 votes - Bee Oldham
Bee Oldham's trike and the Nakashima Barn near Arlington, Washington. The Nakashima family were put into an internment camp for Japanese heritage citizens during WW II. It was unjust and the people around the farm kept it working until the family was released, then returned the farm to the family. Submission and photo by: Bee Oldham
8th, 9th & 10th Place Tie with 59 votes - Frank Ritchey
Frank Ritchey at the Bridge of Dreams, the longest covered bridge in Brinkhaven, Ohio, used only by cyclists and Amish horse and buggies. Submission and photo by: Frank Ritchey
8th, 9th & 10th Place Tie with 59 votes - Shirley Churchill
Dennis & Shirley Churchill cycle in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Shirley says, "Ever since we got our recumbents in 2016 this has been a dream of mine to ride next to the mountains. It was a dream come true." Submission and photo by: Shirley Churchill
11th Place with 56 votes - Kit Wennersten
Kit Wennersten accomplishes a bucket list ride, two weeks after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, by riding his ICE Adventure/Sprint hybrid recumbent trike up the Going to the Sun Road to the Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. Submission and photo by: Kit Wennersten
12 & 13th Place with 55 votes - Carl Bosworth
Carl Bosworth's Azub Ti-Fly X with the Shimano EP801 & Cues DI2 rests along the shores of Lake Erie, right next door to the Marblehead Lighthouse. Submission and photo by: Carl Bosworth
12 & 13th Place with 55 votes - Martin Nuenzert
Arleigh Neunzert rides the roads during the car-free period in the spring when Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming plows some of the roads in the park but doesn’t yet allow vehicles in. Submission and photo by: Martin Neunzert
Each winner will receive a $25 online Hostel Shoppe Gift Card, a free calendar and this year's bragging rights!