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Prone Recumbent?
Hello... While trike recumbents are attractive, they are not practical
in many applications. My fantasy bike is a prone recumbent, but have only found one ever build in searching the Internet. It was a simplistic design of a recumbent UK fan, commented that it was quite fast (as in very), but that the rider needed to lay higher for better balance. Recumbents (2 wheelers) as they are look odd to me (beauty in eye of beholder) - but also having been a cyclists and motorcylists going on 35 years, I do not care for the easy chair recumbent sitting position. Anyone out there ever hear of or know anything of prone recumbent bicycles (I suppose prose recumbent is a contradiction in terms but I think recumbent folks know what I mean.) I invision it with short, simple turn-down handle bars for the cyclist to pull tight into the mini-fairing - a small, old cafe-style fairing smoothing air flow just for cyclist's head, shoulders and arms, and larger rear wheel (36 inch) with the pedals substantially higher from the ground... With current materials, weight would seem to likely come in around 40 pounds with fairing and using steel bike framing for the frame. Obviously it would be long (ttl 8 feet+) but could telescope down for storage, transporting and mass transit (or be take-apart). And it would look fast - and probably be so on the principle of it. The one I read of (UK) was a 50+mph bike on level good pavement and dead air with no fairing and made just by cutting apart a steel diamond frame and extending it - with a curved chest platform for the rider to lay on on the frame rail. I can not find that website, it was green. Any of you know anyone who has played with or tried to make a prone recumbent 2 wheeler? Diamond frames have always struck me as a fair study in inefficiency. Mark -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
Prone Recumbent?
Mark,
No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren |
Prone Recumbent?
Mark,
No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren |
Prone Recumbent?
One of the key selling points for recumbents has been the safety feature,
in an accident your feet and legs get hammered long before your head does...bent pilots tend to survive crashes whereas DF pilots do not. To ride bent with your head/chest above your front wheel and guess what slams the back of the Bus 1st and I would not want to visualize what it would look like to drop the bent on its' side in a fast turn. I Just cannot see Bent Luge riding catching on. ------------------------------------------------ "Warren Berger" wrote in message om... Mark, No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren |
Prone Recumbent?
One of the key selling points for recumbents has been the safety feature,
in an accident your feet and legs get hammered long before your head does...bent pilots tend to survive crashes whereas DF pilots do not. To ride bent with your head/chest above your front wheel and guess what slams the back of the Bus 1st and I would not want to visualize what it would look like to drop the bent on its' side in a fast turn. I Just cannot see Bent Luge riding catching on. ------------------------------------------------ "Warren Berger" wrote in message om... Mark, No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren |
Prone Recumbent?
Warren Berger must be edykated coz e writed:
Mark, No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren One of the things I like about my bent is the knowledge that in a crash, my feet hit first, and my legs act as shock absorbers, I'm not too keen on the idea of using my head as a fender, must be a good way of getting abs of steel though. Wasn't this the design that Boardman was going to use for a speed record? Ian |
Prone Recumbent?
Warren Berger must be edykated coz e writed:
Mark, No, a prone recumbent is not a contradiction in terms. Recumbent means lying down. Prone refers to lying on your stomach, supine refers to lying on your back. Prone recumbents were first patented in the 1800's. Many have been built in the last 125 years. A few good examples are shown at: http://www.geocities.com/rcgilmore3/prone.htm I actually rode a homebuilt, made from a BMX bike about ten years ago. A local bike dreamer, like myself had put it together. It was great fun. I felt like Superman! Back in the 1980's a prone streamliner was raced quite successfully in HPV races. Warren One of the things I like about my bent is the knowledge that in a crash, my feet hit first, and my legs act as shock absorbers, I'm not too keen on the idea of using my head as a fender, must be a good way of getting abs of steel though. Wasn't this the design that Boardman was going to use for a speed record? Ian |
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Christopher Jordan wrote:
http://www.encycleopedia.com/index.c...ct.cfm&edID=50 They're very good climbers, but a bit scary going downhill, I'd think. Now for a 'bent you can flip over from supine to prone whenever a hill looms... Mark van Gorkom. |
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