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"stabilizing" a stratus?
"Mark Leuck" wrote in message
news:jsCKc.111427$MB3.4303@attbi_s04... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... "Mark Leuck" wrote in message newsswKc.87610$WX.49747@attbi_s51... [...] Wal-Mart may sell bikes with perfect trail but I doubt many will last 100 miles or more, again which specific brand and model bike are you complaining about? I should think this would be a simple question to answer. I own 2 and have ridden maybe 10 and have yet to find a complaint with how they steer, comfort yes but never steer I am ****ed off before I even start because you have not put a period at the end of your sentence above. Is this your idea of how to alienate people and make enemies? It oddly only seems to bother you so therefore the correct word would be "person" instead of "people" It bothers all educated people. Only fellow morons like yourself who never got beyond the 8th grade are not bothered by it. I have several clunker upright bikes that are even worse than what Wal-Mart is now selling and they will last a life time if not abused and a certain amount of minimum maintenance is performed at regular intervals. The main problem with almost all bikes that the kids get regardless of original quality is that they abuse them and do not take care of them. Lets see now, you apparently possess 12 ill-handling recumbents and now several junk DF bikes, odd how such a genius could collect garbage like that None of it is garbage. Only elitist fools and snobs like yourself who have more money than brains think you have got to pay thousands of dollars to get a bike that is going to work just fine. But that is probably your way with everything in life. You get what you pay for - right? As to my recumbents, I would say that the Vision set up SWB has too much twitchiness (not enough trail). Even set up LWB with OSS it is still too twitchy. I have two other SWB's and the Kowal also has too much twitchiness. The Turner SWB is just the opposite. It seems to have too much trail. I have given up on SWB altogether. My RANS V2 has too much tiller to suit me as does the RANS Tailwind. My Tailwind (a very early version) is also too twitchy. At slow speeds too much tiller and too much twitchyness is a pain in the you know what. My Infinity is also too twitchy. The Tour Easy has got it right. If the trail and the tiller are not right, the bike will not handle as well as it should. All uprights solved these questions over a hundred years ago. It is not possible to get a bad upright with respect to these very elementary design factors. Don't read off of web pages, I'm referring to bikes you really own but I'll bite anyway Did you not see these things (being the genius) before you purchased them? Trail and tiller do not have to be perfect for me as I am now telling you for the third time. Other things matter more to me when it comes to a recumbent - like comfort and fun. This is not to say that all recumbents are nor rideable even if trail and tiller are not perfect. I can ride them all and have ridden very many of them (except for the latest high racers and low racers). All recumbents should be designed with optimum trail and optimum tiller for the vast majority of cyclists just like uprights are. Then they would all handle pretty much the same regardless of their individual configurations (frame designs). Or so it seems to me. Welp with 12 ill-handling recumbents so far I doubt you could be satisfied with anything at this point The perfect recumbent has yet to be made. It may be that there is something fundamentally wrong with the recumbent design itself which can never be gotten around. Ideally, a recumbent ought to handle just as well as an upright, but minus all the pain that goes with an upright. However, this may be rocket science after all and recumbent designers and builders do not fall into that category of intelligence, at least not the last time I looked. -- Ed Dolan - Minnesota |
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"stabilizing" a stratus?
Edward Dolan wrote:
... The perfect recumbent has yet to be made. It may be that there is something fundamentally wrong with the recumbent design itself which can never be gotten around. Ideally, a recumbent ought to handle just as well as an upright, but minus all the pain that goes with an upright. However, this may be rocket science after all and recumbent designers and builders do not fall into that category of intelligence, at least not the last time I looked. Based on his work background in aerospace engineering, Tim Brummer (Lightning Cycle Dynamics) could qualify as a "rocket scientist". -- Tom Sherman – Quad City Area |
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"stabilizing" a stratus?
I figured you couldn't tell me, fact is you don't know "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... As to proper trail and tiller, that is not my business. I do not design recumbents nor do I manufacture them. I only buy them and ride them. That is most likely all that 99% of us on this newsgroup do too - including you! Who cares what you and I think about bicycle design anymore than anyone should care what we think about nuclear physics or getting to the Moon. We can only know what works for us and what doesn't work for us. |
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"stabilizing" a stratus?
"Mark Leuck" wrote in message news:iOFKc.112487$a24.68746@attbi_s03... I figured you couldn't tell me, fact is you don't know "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... As to proper trail and tiller, that is not my business. I do not design recumbents nor do I manufacture them. I only buy them and ride them. That is most likely all that 99% of us on this newsgroup do too - including you! Who cares what you and I think about bicycle design anymore than anyone should care what we think about nuclear physics or getting to the Moon. We can only know what works for us and what doesn't work for us. The real facts are that you are an idiot who is now top posting and who does not know how to punctuate. Maybe you and this other idiot Bil could get together and celebrate your common stupidity. -- Ed Dolan - Minnesota |
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"stabilizing" a stratus?
"Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... Edward Dolan wrote: ... The perfect recumbent has yet to be made. It may be that there is something fundamentally wrong with the recumbent design itself which can never be gotten around. Ideally, a recumbent ought to handle just as well as an upright, but minus all the pain that goes with an upright. However, this may be rocket science after all and recumbent designers and builders do not fall into that category of intelligence, at least not the last time I looked. Based on his work background in aerospace engineering, Tim Brummer (Lightning Cycle Dynamics) could qualify as a "rocket scientist". I have ridden the P-38 on several occasions and it always feels like my legs are coming back into my gut (this was many years ago when I had no gut to speak of). This may be just an adjustment problem but I think the very upright seat combined with the relatively high BB contributes to this. The main thing wrong with the P-38 has always been its exorbitant price. But overall I have never been impressed with the P-38. The one thing I will say for his company is that it has the social skills of rocket scientists - who are known for being nerds and for being cantankerous. -- Ed Dolan - Minnesota |
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"stabilizing" a stratus?
Hi
Don't know if this will work for a stratus but it worked for my tailwind. I installed an underseat rack and panniers. It has lowered the centre of gravity. I used to carry my work stuff in a camelbak peak bagger on the seat back. "Mile High Skates" wrote in message ... I recently "inherited" my wife's Stratus. It's a 2001 model (I think), standard size, and box-stock except for XT cranks (170mm, 26/36/48) and Calhoun Evo Sport bars/stem. The seat is about 1" from being all the way back, so I'm sure that the weight distribution is less-than-optimal. Aside from getting an XL Stratus (whic hain't gonna happen), can anyone recommend ways to make the front end feel "less light" (i.e., MORE stable)? I'm going to remove the bottle cages from the seat and try mounting them/one forward, and maybe find a more forward position for my spare/tool pouch. Thanks in advance. |
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