"bfd" wrote in message
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Edward Dolan wrote:
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Get a real bike and more people can fix it!!!

Big Jim has a good point here, but he does not realize how much we
recumbent
cyclists insist on comfort, something that you can never get on an
upright.

When I ride an upright and it starts to cause me pain I get so freaking
mad
I could kill myself for being so stupid as to think an upright could ever
be
comfortable for more than half an hour. Screw all uprights all the way to
hell and back! The g.d. things are nothing but torture racks. One thing
is
for sure, they were never designed for the human anatomy.

Have you tried Rivendell's style of fitting? Maybe some reading
material will help:

http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...pick_your_bike

http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...g_a_frame_size

http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...iding_position

http://www.rivbike.com/assorted_read...et-up_mistakes

Good Luck with all that!

All of the above is water over the dam as far as I am concerned. I have been
there and done it - many, many times.

I have been around bikes for the past 35 years and consider myself an expert
on the subject of comfort. If you are young and physically fit you can more
or less be comfortable on an upright for several hours at best, but even
then you cannot be comfortable on them all day every day for weeks at a
time.

A recumbent is the ONLY way to go if you want TOTAL comfort. You give up
some speed, especially on hills, but the comfort is more than worth it. This
is actually a subject not even worth talking about as anyone who knows
recumbents can tell you.

Those of you presently on uprights who think you can live with them will
find out that as you age that you in fact cannot. At that point, you will
either give up cycling - or you will graduate to recumbents.

Good Luck with all that - indeed!

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota