Here are the results from my google searching on the exercise bike:
Searched for:
rowing bicycle
First result:
http://rowingbike.free.fr/
Which has ALL manner of wacky bikes that use your upper body. Neat animation half-way down the page. I don't see any that combine standard bike pedaling and upper-body, though. But a lot of rowing bikes.
And the gold mine:
http://webpages.charter.net/rcgilmore/Illustrations.htm
People have been doing this for a LONG time, it seems. I still haven't seen anything exactly like my vision, but plenty of things that come close- mostly 2-wheel, interestingly. And some really entertaining stuff.
Last but not least, here is the exact thing I was thinking of (in a bike format, but the same idea) - there are also other patents from the page above that are trikes, with more or less the same thing - double handles that serve as extra propulsion and steering:
http://www.delphion.com/fcgi-bin/any2html?FILENAME=dlcache%2F47%2F16%2FUS04541647__.tif&PAGE=1&USER_HTML=%253CA%2BHREF%253D%2Forder%253Fpn%3DUS04541647__+TARGET%3D_top%253EOrderPatent%253C%2FA%253E&OUT_FORMAT=gif&SCALE=0.52
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