"Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Ken Marcet said:
Is it my imagination or do recumbents tend to handle better than your standard upright road cycle or mtb? After riding my custom recycled recumbent swb with a headtube angle of about 81 degrees more than several times now I have noticed that is seems to handle better than my other bikes. Is this generally true or is it due to my high headtube angle? This is my first recumbent that I own for myself, I had the chance to ride a lwb once and thought it seemed to handle well too.
Certainly some recumbents handle very well, e.g. Earth Cycles Sunset Lowracer, RANS Rocket, while others do not. However, the handling is so different from an upright bicycle, that I really would not make direct comparisons.
Some recumbents do handle poorly, e.g. Hypercycles and their evolutionary designs such as the Blackbent III.
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The first recumbent I rode was a Hypercycle. It was a nice handling bike and was exceptionally easy for a beginner to ride. There is this myth that it was a bad handling bike. I rode one for a summer and disagree. Have you ridden one?...
No, but I have heard from people with respected judgement who have ridden them and disaproved strongly of the handling, expecially during braking and over bumps. I have ridden Turners and their ilk, and the handling did not inspire confidence.
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The Blackbent III has a reputation, and I believe it is deserved, of being an evil handling, dangerous bike. I don't consider it to be part of the evolutionary design of the Hypercycle. I believe it was designed by the owner of the Recumbent Barn who is an account by profession....
At one time the name of the business was "Recumbant Barn" (sic).
"Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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"Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Ken Marcet wrote:
>Is it my imagination or do recumbents tend to handle better than your >standard upright road cycle or mtb? After riding my custom recycled >recumbent swb with a headtube angle of about 81 degrees more than >several >times now I have noticed that is seems to handle better than my other >bikes. >Is this generally true or is it due to my high headtube angle? This is >my >first recumbent that I own for myself, I had the chance to ride a lwb >once >and thought it seemed to handle well too.
Certainly some recumbents handle very well, e.g. Earth Cycles Sunset Lowracer, RANS Rocket, while others do not. However, the handling is so different from an upright bicycle, that I really would not make direct comparisons.
Some recumbents do handle poorly, e.g. Hypercycles and their evolutionary designs such as the Blackbent III.
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The first recumbent I rode was a Hypercycle. It was a nice handling bike and was exceptionally easy for a beginner to ride. There is this myth that it was a bad handling bike. I rode one for a summer and disagree. Have you ridden one?...
No, but I have heard from people with respected judgement who have ridden them and disaproved strongly of the handling, expecially during braking and over bumps. I have ridden Turners and their ilk, and the handling did not inspire confidence.
The one I rode for a summer braked normally and the way it took bumps didn't seem to be out of the ordinary, so I'm not sure what your source with respected judgement was talking about. The bike didn't have a lot of frame to absorb shock and the fiberglass bucket seat had a thin pad, so yes, you could sure feel the bumps up and down your spine and that got tiresome after a while.
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The Blackbent III has a reputation, and I believe it is deserved, of being an evil handling, dangerous bike. I don't consider it to be part of the evolutionary design of the Hypercycle. I believe it was designed by the owner of the Recumbent Barn who is an account by profession....
At one time the name of the business was "Recumbant Barn" (sic).
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If someone can't spell the name of the thing they are designing you might be well advised to proceed with caution before getting too involved with that item.
