Re: Ergonomics and cruiser bikes

"Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

R.D. Clark said:

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However, I've thought more than once about keeping something like a
Townie in my office, because downtown Philly is very flat. But parking
two bikes in my office would really be pushing my luck, and I'd never
make the commute on any kind of recumbent....

Why wouldn't any kind of recumbent work and on what data is this
statement based?

Based on the fact that I can barely make two of the climbs on my route on a
bike with a less than 1:1 gear ratio, and I have to stand to do it. I don't
think I could spin fast enough to keep a 'bent upright with a lower ratio.

r

Rich Clark said:

Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman said:

R.D. Clark said:

...
However, I've thought more than once about keeping something like a
Townie in my office, because downtown Philly is very flat. But parking
two bikes in my office would really be pushing my luck, and I'd never
make the commute on any kind of recumbent....

Quoted message said:

Why wouldn't any kind of recumbent work and on what data is this
statement based?

Based on the fact that I can barely make two of the climbs on my route on a
bike with a less than 1:1 gear ratio, and I have to stand to do it. I don't
think I could spin fast enough to keep a 'bent upright with a lower ratio.

Balance, who needs steenkin [1] balance?

See:
<http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/>,
<http://www.greenspeed.com.au/>,
<http://www.windcheetah.co.uk/>,
<http://www.catrike.com/>,
<http://www.wizwheelz.com/>,
<http://www.logotrikes.com/>,
<http://www.trisled.com.au/>,
<http://organicengines.com/products/triclops-tricycle/>,
<http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/scorpion/index_e.html>,
<http://www.optima-cycles.nl/main/en/modellen/5.html?Itemid=27>,
etc...

[1] Gratuitous Brandtism.

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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman said:

Balance, who needs steenkin [1] balance?

See: [snip trike links]

Or I could just keep riding my conventional bikes which, with their
dialed-in fit, let me ride centuries with no knee issues.

(I don't think I could park a trike in my office anyway.)

r