One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
[...] So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
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One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
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One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
It's all a foking joke. Just like the term high and racer in the same breath is a foking joke. Ride em if you like them, but remember in these here good ol US of A we can poke fun at most anything especially oxymorons. And remember this isn't BROL. Ol' Bry can't protect you from humor here on ARBR.
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I trust that you, gotbent, are the source of this "joke". So the anti-highracer blog was created to serve as a place for you to tell the world that you don't think that dual 26 or 650 recumbents are fast? Clearly they are high so that cannot be disputed. So all joking aside, what are you suggesting?
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I trust that you, gotbent, are the source of this "joke". So the anti-highracer blog was created to serve as a place for you to tell the world that you don't think that dual 26 or 650 recumbents are fast? Clearly they are high so that cannot be disputed. So all joking aside, what are you suggesting?
Jim
I have nothing to do with the blog except read it and laugh my ass off. Notice that Volae has so far been exempt from inclusion therein. Perhaps the blog is by someone who has already kicked many killer bees asses and wants to poke fun at the legions who buy into the high=fast lie. What I'm suggesting is that the blog isn't the bible, it's a foking joke, but you obviously haven't got it yet. maybe you missed the speed chart that shows former killer bee J Verheul going several mph faster on his NOCOM than than the guys on [censored] high goslow walkers, which he FORMALLY espoused as his race bike till he found out how slow they were. In Europe the fast HPV guys just don't ever race high walkers. They are fassst riders and don't want to waste time and money on slow bikes poorly designed for the competition they would see.
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What is a NOCOM? As for these "goslow walkers", I submit to you that these folks need to address their engine problems long before they consider another bike. As for the "high=fast" lie, I can only offer my own observations. Simple put, I am faster on my Strada than I am on my zipper faired Stratus. No lie.
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What is a NOCOM? As for these "goslow walkers", I submit to you that these folks need to address their engine problems long before they consider another bike. As for the "high=fast" lie, I can only offer my own observations. Simple put, I am faster on my Strada than I am on my zipper faired Stratus. No lie.
Jim
A NOCOM is a plastic bent made iin Poland and is considered to be the fastest unfaired bike in existance. Do a Google for the Velokraft site. Fast isn't the same as faster. If you can't ride a solo (no pace line, clock keeps running when you take a [censored] break) on the road century in about 3:50", you aren't fast.
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One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
It is about lowracer riding "Monkeys" yanking the chains of the highracer crowd. 🙂 -- Tom Sherman - Fox River Valley Hominid - The Other White Meat!
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One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
It is about lowracer riding "Monkeys" yanking the chains of the highracer crowd. 🙂
I ride a lowracer, but damn, I also love my "high" racer......
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One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?
It is about lowracer riding "Monkeys" yanking the chains of the highracer crowd. 🙂
I ride a lowracer, but damn, I also love my "high" racer......
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[email hidden] wrote: > One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years > of riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like > membership you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to > attend a large event and immediately bond with the minority of > recumbent riders. Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, > high bb vs low BB, faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, > we all know these bikes are awesome. So when I read the other day > comments on a blog devoted to bashing highracers I was taken back. > First let me say that I own one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also > say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in the end, I will always > be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many personal opinions about > why highracers are not perfect for me. But my Strada is fast and > fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow recumbent rider > going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can someone please > tell me what this is all about?
It is about lowracer riding "Monkeys" yanking the chains of the highracer crowd. 🙂
I ride a lowracer, but damn, I also love my "high" racer......
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