IDS

It depends what sort of cycling you are doing. It's tight so is unlikely
to get caught in the mech, it's elastic so it allows for free movement, it
doesn't have triple thick denim seams right under your crotch, it dries
quickly after rain showers,.... FWIW, I cycle most days in my work clothes
but then I'm only on the bike in a few ten minute chunks. I also don't own
any lycra but I can see its use for those doing a fair mileage or training
hard.

Colin

 

A good call then...

Why's that then? On my recumbent bike I prefer it to my upright bike,
because I have a completely natural view of the road ahead without
having to lift my neck to see beyond the patch of road by the front
wheel. I have no weight on my hands and arms so suffer less from
distance fatigue. I'm more relaxed so I can concentrate on important
matters like where I'm going.

You dislike the idea, I ride one and find that in practice, as opposed
to theory, it is a complete non-issue. Of course there are recumbents
and there are recumbents. One is not necessarily representative of all.
I ride uprights as well so I have frequent opportunities to compare
and contrast. One's not a problem, the other one isn't a problem either.

Some more than others. Mine is at car seat height, and no I can't see
over cars as a result. But I've never felt trapped or vulnerable
because I can't see over vans and trucks and landies on my upright, so
it's far less of an issue than most people assume it will be. Also the
case that I am at the *perfect* height for eye contact with most
motorists, so I actually have a much better idea of when I actually
*have* been seen, so less chance of a SMIDSY.

Indeed, so no, you can't have the fun of wheelies, but also the case
it's *remarkably* difficult to exit at speed over the handlebars and
headbutt someone's windscreen. That's actually a Good Thing...

Pete.

 

I think we post to usenet for the mostly same reasons. Our definitions
of amusing and superiority may well differ though.

 

Well, you're normally fairly polite and personable to strangers in
real life. I was guessing that you use usenet as a way of saying the
things you'd really like to say.

Neither. I thought it was a (very mildly) amusing way of pointing up
that you get your jollies by making outrageous statements to complete
strangers on the internet. Actually, isn't that the definition of a
troll?

High stress day - I'm responsible of a major software deployment into
UAT. If it's not there by the end of the day, I'll look shit. Which
I hate, of course.

 

Hey, guess what?

I'm not working on that project at all, or any of your projects, it's
*wonderful*.

la la la - happy days.

 

Tosh. It's one's civic duty to pay the correctly assessed amount of
tax

 

must be edykated coz e writed:

It is a cheap alternative to the cosmetic surgery you would need.

 

William Grainger must be edykated coz e writed:

Stoppies are pretty easy, wheelies are a definite no.

 

Are you sure that you have that the right way round?

 

Umm.. that's only true with casual aquaintances.

I don't really use usenet to say the things I want to say to be honest
but I am ruder here than I'd be to a complete stranger under other
circumstances, as I'm sure most people are (on occasion).

Umm, it probably is.

Good luck.

 

Whilst that's true I think it's fecking difficult to worm out of paying
the correct amount of tax as an employee. The "correctly assessed"
amount is dependant on how the data's presented anyway. I'd be happy
enough to reduce my tax bill.

I think all you can do is make sure you claim the correct allowances and
invest wisely. Think that's it. Anyone think I'm wrong? I'd be
grateful if I was.

 

You or one?

 

Normal clothes? Jeans etc? Used to work when I rode bikes.

 

Pip must be edykated coz e writed:

Yep.

 

Riding to the shops in jeans is one thing, riding for several hours is
quite another. Which is why I do local trips in Normal Clothes, and
ling trips in more specialist ones designed for the job.

Just like riding a motorbike in Normal Clothes 5 miles is one thing but
riding one 300 miles through a series of weather fronts is quite
another. One size doesn't necessarily fit all.

Pete.

 

<raises eyebrows>

I'd love to see that - no, better - I'd pay money to see you pull a
stoppie on a recumbent trike. You can fund the damage caused
yourself, however.

You're either confused, an idiot or a Class One Bullshitter.

 

Pip must be edykated coz e writed:

Most of the weight is on the front wheels, if you had listened at school you
would have learned basic physics there, my 7 year old daughter can pull a
stoppie on her recumbent trike as well, http://www.kmxkarts.co.uk/, it
isn't particularly good for the headsets on a Catrike but is perfectly
possible, the hydraulic disc brakes are very good for this kind of thing,
damn site safer for the rider than doing it on a rice burner as well.
Wheelies on a swb tadpole recumbent trike are are virtual impossibility
though, the weight transference aspect does not gel, I think you will find
there are other trike owners here that will tell you about stoppie
capability, I am assuming here that you are aware that the two wheels are at
the front of course, maybe I'm expecting too much from you.

 

Don't know for sure, but note that Andy Wilkinson was clocked around the
70s (m, not k,ph) on the End to End Windcheetah run going down some of
the bigger drags, and *very* powerful hydraulic brakes are now commodity
items for recumbent trikes, so they have the speed to help overcome the
"problem" of being so low and the stopping power to, errr, stop. And
with two wheels at the front like on a Windcheetah/Trice/catrike/GTO
etc. you have a nice stable platform for the job, and as long as you
don't pass 90 degrees you'll just fall back down onto your tripod

Or possibly a man with a 'bent trike, a hill and some serious brakes...

Pete.

 

Could you make the cheque payable to the "Ian gives everyone on urc a
Catrike fund"?

Colin
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Colin Blackburn must be edykated coz e writed:

Colin, are you at Durham University?