Highracer Bashing Blog?

One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of
riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership
you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large
event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders.
Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB,
faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes
are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted
to bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own
one, a 2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999
Stratus and, in the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I
have many personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for
me. But my Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume
is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for
highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA

wrote
[...] So what is up with what I presume
is a fellow recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for
highracers? Can someone please tell me what this is all about?

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Jon Meinecke
net.subtle-apteryx

In .com, on 10/04/05
at 06:09 AM, said:



One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of
riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership
you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large
event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders.
Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB,
faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes
are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to
bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a
2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in
the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many
personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my
Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow
recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can
someone please tell me what this is all about?

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA

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In .com, on 10/04/05
at 06:09 AM, said:



One of the coolest things I've encountered over the last six years of
riding recumbent, has been the solidarity and the club like membership
you enjoy with other recumbent riders. It's great to attend a large
event and immediately bond with the minority of recumbent riders.
Granted, everyone has their favorite, SWB vs LWB, high bb vs low BB,
faired vs unfaired, but in the end recumbents, we all know these bikes
are awesome. So when I read the other day comments on a blog devoted to
bashing highracers I was taken back. First let me say that I own one, a
2004 Strada. Next let me also say that I also own a 1999 Stratus and, in
the end, I will always be LWB guy. As for highracers, I have many
personal opinions about why highracers are not perfect for me. But my
Strada is fast and fun! So what is up with what I presume is a fellow
recumbent rider going nuts over his/her hatred for highracers? Can
someone please tell me what this is all about?

Jim Reilly
Reading, PA

--

Penis envy?


jim

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It's all a foking joke. Just like the term high and racer in the same breath
is a foking joke. Ride em if you like them, but remember in these here good
ol US of A we can poke fun at most anything especially oxymorons. And
remember this isn't BROL. Ol' Bry can't protect you from humor here on ARBR.



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I trust that you, gotbent, are the source of this "joke". So the
anti-highracer blog was created to serve as a place for you to tell the
world that you don't think that dual 26 or 650 recumbents are fast?
Clearly they are high so that cannot be disputed. So all joking aside,
what are you suggesting?

Jim

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ups.com...
I trust that you, gotbent, are the source of this "joke". So the
anti-highracer blog was created to serve as a place for you to tell the
world that you don't think that dual 26 or 650 recumbents are fast?
Clearly they are high so that cannot be disputed. So all joking aside,
what are you suggesting?

Jim


I have nothing to do with the blog except read it and laugh my ass off.
Notice that Volae has so far been exempt from inclusion therein. Perhaps the
blog is by someone who has already kicked many killer bees asses and wants
to poke fun at the legions who buy into the high=fast lie. What I'm
suggesting is that the blog isn't the bible, it's a foking joke, but you
obviously haven't got it yet. maybe you missed the speed chart that shows
former killer bee J Verheul going several mph faster on his NOCOM than than
the guys on bitchitta high goslow walkers, which he FORMALLY espoused as his
race bike till he found out how slow they were. In Europe the fast HPV guys
just don't ever race high walkers. They are fassst riders and don't want to
waste time and money on slow bikes poorly designed for the competition they
would see.




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What is a NOCOM? As for these "goslow walkers", I submit to you that
these folks need to address their engine problems long before they
consider another bike. As for the "high=fast" lie, I can only offer my
own observations. Simple put, I am faster on my Strada than I am on my
zipper faired Stratus. No lie.

Jim

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What is a NOCOM? As for these "goslow walkers", I submit to you that
these folks need to address their engine problems long before they
consider another bike. As for the "high=fast" lie, I can only offer my
own observations. Simple put, I am faster on my Strada than I am on my
zipper faired Stratus. No lie.

Jim


A NOCOM is a plastic bent made iin Poland and is considered to be the
fastest unfaired bike in existance. Do a Google for the Velokraft site.
Fast isn't the same as faster. If you can't ride a solo (no pace line, clock
keeps running when you take a **** break) on the road century in about
3:50", you aren't fast.



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Interesting. I will have a look. Thanks.

Jim

Wow! NOCOM looks awesome!