Disc Brakes Are Amazing!!!

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Edward Dolan wrote:

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Ride your upright for about 8 hours a day for an entire week and then
get
back to me on the comfort issue.

Dear Ed,

The well-known Freddie Hoffman has been riding an upright 8 hours per
day for 30 years.
He seems fairly comfortable with it.

"For what it's worth, the few folks who put in a multiple of that
mileage mostly ride bikes that you probably think wouldn't hack it for
you. Freddie Hoffman, just to name an extreme example, has /averaged/
something like 100 miles per day over the last 30 years. He rides a
50-pound Schwinn with roadster bars."

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...38df6e59563c92

The person you describe above is obviously an iron man and not typical at
all of the kind of cyclists who each summer embark on week long supported
tours on their upright bikes. They suffer enormously as they are not use
to
putting in 70 or more miles each day for a week. We recumbent cyclists
are
not used to that either, but we do not suffer like they do. That is
because
we have comfortable and sensible bikes. Yes, we are slower going uphill
and
therefore slower over all, but who cares about that. I certainly don't. I
ride at my own pace, enjoy every mile and at the end of the day nothing
hurts.

How does a typical recumbent bike perform on descents?

Better than uprights.

Technical descents?

Worse than uprights.

Steep straight descents?

Much better than uprights.

How nimble are they on quick corners?

Much worse than uprights.

Regards,

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