Touring

http://www.easyracers.com EZ-1. I got mine last Thu in Mar, 1750 miles
so far, up to 125 miles one day. Last Fri in Feb, I rode 18 miles and
did not want to sit down, my rear was so sore. I paid 504 ordering
through my LBS. Actual manufacturer is sun bicycles.

yerble said:

Hello, we want to get a recumbent for touring, from the weekend ride to
cross country. Would like the $900 range or under. So, suggestions,
cautions would be helpful.

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yerble

Caution; you will get what you pay for. Both my 'touring' 'bents, a single
and a tandem, cost >$5K. The elder of the two has >35K miles and the other,
since May has >2K miles.

"yerble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hello, we want to get a recumbent for touring, from the weekend ride to
cross country. Would like the $900 range or under. So, suggestions,
cautions would be helpful.

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yerble

:
: Hello, we want to get a recumbent for touring, from the weekend ride to
: cross country. Would like the $900 range or under. So, suggestions,
: cautions would be helpful.
:
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: yerble

Take a look at this one. It's close to your price range and maybe you could
bargain a little.

http://www.cyclegenius.com/ltx.htm

Pat in TX
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"Doug Huffman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Caution; you will get what you pay for. Both my 'touring' 'bents, a
single and a tandem, cost >$5K. The elder of the two has >35K miles and
the other, since May has >2K miles.

Sigh, another idiot top poster!

This business about "you get what you pay for" is a lot of hooey. Mostly
what you get when you spend a lot of money for something is that you get
taken. The reason for this is that those who can afford to throw money at
everything basically know nothing about either price or value. It is far
better to get something inexpensive. Then, if you get taken, you are at
least not out of a lot of money.

The truth is that all recumbents, with a few exceptions, are expensive. They
are over priced and not a good value.You can get taken really bad without
half trying if you aren't careful. Yerble, investigate Sun Bicycles and
forget this nonsense about "you get what you pay for." Only rich folks
without any brains say things like that.

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Regards,

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

Quoted message said:

"yerble" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hello, we want to get a recumbent for touring, from the weekend ride to
cross country. Would like the $900 range or under. So, suggestions,
cautions would be helpful.

--
yerble

Edward Dolan said:

"Doug Huffman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Caution; you will get what you pay for. Both my 'touring' 'bents, a
single and a tandem, cost >$5K. The elder of the two has >35K miles and
the other, since May has >2K miles.

Sigh, another idiot top poster!

Mr. Huffman has a +4 standard deviation IQ, as he likes to remind us.

Quoted message said:

This business about "you get what you pay for" is a lot of hooey. Mostly
what you get when you spend a lot of money for something is that you get
taken. The reason for this is that those who can afford to throw money at
everything basically know nothing about either price or value. It is far
better to get something inexpensive. Then, if you get taken, you are at
least not out of a lot of money.

The truth is that all recumbents, with a few exceptions, are expensive. They
are over priced and not a good value.You can get taken really bad without
half trying if you aren't careful. Yerble, investigate Sun Bicycles and
forget this nonsense about "you get what you pay for." Only rich folks
without any brains say things like that.

My suggestion for an inexpensive touring recumbent would be a used RANS
Tailwind (for shorter stature riders) or a RANS Rocket. These can be
found in the $500 US range and only need a few upgrades.

Both bikes should be equipped with a below seat pannier rack for the
heavier items to maintain proper weight distribution.

Items to check/upgrade are brakes (Kool Stop salmon pads are a good
upgrade), cables and housing, hubs, bottom bracket [1], wheels
(re-tension spokes, stress relieve, and true) and tires (the stock Primo
Comets are rather fragile for touring).

[1] The Shimano LP-27 model used on some bikes will typically fail at
about 2000 miles, and should be replaced with a Shimano UN-52 or better.

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Tom Sherman - Curmudgeon and Pedant