Recumbent bicycles and tricycles are physically safer as bikes go.

I wouldn't ride either type in city traffic mind, nor would I ride a 'so-called' safety bicycle in city traffic.

The now ubiquitous 'safety bike' was safer than a penny-farthing bike and that's why it is called a safety bike, Not because it IS very safe compared with a recumbent because they just aren't.

?!?!? VERY high centre of gravity and fundamentally unstable to boot.

I don't commute to work anymore.

Rode to work on a racing light-weight (1970s LW! that is), sans mudguards and re-geared for city work with narrow-7 rear gears for about 30 years*. In Gortex bike gear with a long shirt-tail I could sit on. Mostly on 'bike-paths' and avoiding main roads where possible. For about 2/3rds of that time about 22k each way, and the last 6 yrs just 9 k each ways. Canberra has lots of walking, cycling and horse riding paths which link the cities towns together.

*In that period I road to Uni 32k each way for 4 and a half years both as student and TUTOR in Information Systems Analysis (Academic Level A).

That's a lot of cycling. And I can assure you that 'safety bikes', just AREN'T.

On bike lanes in a mostly flat city - IF I was commuting - I'd choose a 'built to fit me' recumbent trike any time. With a winter enclosed-body option, stream-liner type and with a Kamm tail. ;-) and lots of flashing lights - thanks to hi-tech batteries.

But I live in a hilly and very spread out city, so I ride a suspended mtn bike, with 3 nice Granny-Low gears of the 18!!! I avoid busy roads when I can. And it's only for exercise!!

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

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Recumbent bicycles and tricycles are physically safer as bikes go.

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