"Chalo" <
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> You can call it "unimportant" to limit your bike travel only to places
> where you can take the lane (or a paved shoulder), but actually
> getting places is easier and much more versatile when you can also
> take to the sidewalk or the grassy margins as appropriate-- even if
> those facilities are not blessed with curb cuts.
Such amazing tunnel vision....I've ridden my Stratus XP on the sidewar and
on the grass. Heck, just a few weeks ago I was in Charleston riding in
FestiVELO....along the route we can to a draw bridge that was up to let the
boats through...traffic was backed up...and there was a hill there. So,
rather than waiting...I just got off on the grassy shoulder and rode up the
hill for about 0.5 miles...then hopped off and walked the bike the the front
of traffic...all of the DF riders were standing there walking their bikes
too.
>
> 'Bents don't appear to do well in city centers, or in well-populated
> suburbs. Judging by the places I ever see them riding more than once
> in a rare while, it looks like they are best suited to riding on multi-
> use paths and inconvenient byways avoided by motorists. I expect that
> they'd be OK on the open road, but I don't think I've ever seen one
> out in the countryside.
Funny what kinds of bad conclusions one can draw from data where n=1. You
obviously have little to no experience with 'bents. And you forget that
riding a LWB bent with low BB in tight spaces is not hard at all, since you
can easly drop a foot down for tight moves.
But for the life of me, I can't understand why I even bother responding to
such closed minded people. If you wish to limit yourself to just riding
DFs, fine with me.
And some bents are great on the open road.
>
> Chalo
