Shortest ride ever!

randyspann

randyspann

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- Haven't ridden my DF since I got my Silvio, about a year ago. So I decided to tune up the DF and give it to my brother-in-law. Took it for a ride to test my tune up....Wow, could not wait to get off that thing! I guess I'm recumbent acclimatized! On the DF: can't look ahead easily, uncomfortable posture, having my head way up front I felt uncomfortably 'exposed'.
Makes me think I've got to get my wife off of her DF and onto a softrider! She recently flipped on her bike (didn't see a stopped rider and hit him) and got a fractured vertebre in her back. I think the lack of forward visibility on a DF is a serious safety concern!
 
John Tolhurst

John Tolhurst

Zen MBB Master
You are right in all you say

You are right in all you say Randyspann, but get this: A common reason bike shops don't suggest recumbents is out of fear they are not safe. So guys, all of you out there in web land, make sure you brain the next bike shop that has that mis-perception!
 
MrSteve

MrSteve

Zen MBB Master
Recumbent Safety

Randy, I too hope your wife recovers completely!

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Here's a tale of two dogs Vs. two bikes:

One day, it was a very hot day, I chose to 'forget' my bicycle gloves.
Thanks to a neighbours' off-lead Weimeraner, I crashed after hitting
the big dog with my feet.
My Sofrider suffered a bent chain ring and the handlebars turned a bit
in the clamps - both were easily repaired.

The bike and my un-gloved hands suffered some road-rash.

My sister hit an off-lead dog and suffered much, much worse injuries.
So did her standard diamond-frame bicycle.
Her rear wheel hit the large dog and folded-up, it 'tacoed',
which pitched the bicycle down to the pavement.
That, in turn, threw my sister onto the pavement.
She broke bones in her face, lost consciousness briefly and concussed her brain.

Her bicycle was written off.
My sister healed but her brain has never quite returned to the way it was pre-crash.

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I'm still riding the same Sofrider but my sister has never really regained
her former enthusiasm for bicycling.
And she will never ride a recumbent bike.
Recumbents are not everyone's idea of what a bicycle is all about....
 
randyspann

randyspann

Well-Known Member
"...not everyone's idea of what a bicycle is all about"

- I hear you! And I hope my wife can regain her confidence in riding. After she heals. But I can't seem to talk her into a softrider, she thinks bents are ridiculous. Plus she has witnessed my early "weaveyness" learning to ride a cruzbike.
- Sorry to hear about your sister. Bicycles can go fast...too fast for contact with the pavement.
 
Andrew 1973

Andrew 1973

Zen MBB Master
Some Pianos are Sexy

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Check out that low pedal height; no more numb toes.
 
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