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"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
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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:
[...]
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!

I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56,
and in fact can live with upright bicycles.
Kerry

Yeah, but you are probably an iron man, a species of humans that I have
never had any truck with. Most of us are not iron men. We lose our physical
fitness and strength as we age - and so will you too eventually. I can
assure you that by age 70 you will worship at the altar of Ed Dolan the
Great. You will wonder how I could have been so wise and how you could have
been so ignorant.

The fact is that recumbents are mostly for older folks. I remember when I
thought I could ride uprights forever, but reality intruded. Recumbents mean
that you can continue to ride bikes longer than you ever thought possible
and thereby insure continued fitness and perhaps a longer life.

But I must admit I now see the Grim Reaper around every corner. In the end
of course, nothing can save you, not even cycling!

Regards,

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