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In Reply to: RE: I cringe when there is a pileup. posted by FenderLover on July 20, 2017 at 06:50:52
You'd think in safety-terminal-lead-free land they'd mandate this:
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Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
I have ridden both, and the lower center of gravity has no real handling benefit, in my case. Slower in fact, in that steering is now done only with the front wheel, and jumping is out, as is body english, for the most part.
Surely it is more stable physically, granting your point, but since one is already balanced, and stable in motion, it makes little sense to trade the ability to use upright body weight to assist power, verses just lower torso only and working from a less agile seated position.
Most guys choose the lower position bikes only because of body problems.
And is not hard on a recumbent, yes it is easy on a 'safety' bicycle, as we mostly do it by leaning.But the bicycles being raced today are fundamentally unstable and the impacts on bodies due to their height are greater!
"it makes little sense to trade the ability to use upright body weight to assist power," hmmm - Enjoy your next fall? :-)
A high centre of gravity just is a bad idea. Dumb, IMO. And, 'stable in motion' is just nonsense. The system of rider up on top of a 'safety' bicycle is fundamentally unstable - all - the time. Moving or not.
We are consciously and unconsciously automatically stabilising the system, with bodily inputs all the time, because we must. And, this does chew up mind and muscle power. Even when it's habit.
This vital and demanding task just disappears on a tricycle and all but so, on a recumbent cycle.
More? There is a real cost in injuries, some permanently disabling, while this ancient and flawed design remains popular. Am I wrong here?
My basic issue is that the TDF and all racing of un'safety' bicycles is about an unquestioned and very costly tradition.
This is confirmed for me, by your macho? resistance to far safer HPVs.
Most people I know with recumbents commute on them because they will be safer. Most of them are young and can reason. And they seem manly enough to me. :-)
Ex-grunt, ex climber, ex-hunter and born questioner.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 07/21/17 07/21/17 07/21/17 07/21/17
And flatter, then I would be in a velomobile in a flash.
Very fast on the flat
Comfortable
Can carry some stuff with you
Super cool looks ;-)
But - like all recumbents -
Heavy
Inferior handling at speed
Stinking hot!
Cheers,
John K
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