nigelb
New Member
- Location
- Just west of Cambridge
Hi
Made a bad mistake yesterday.
There was a show on in Cambridge over last weekend, and we went along for a look. They had an area of grass roped off for people to try different bikes out on!
Seeing the recumbents, I thought "now's my chance" and I tried a couple. One was a "short wheel base", the other seemed to be roughly a half-way house between conventional and recumbent.
Have to say I loved them!
Guess I'll have to use my new cycle to work bike for the year, get it paid off, before I start shopping....
To be honest, the whole riding position seems to be a natural progression - I started off on drop handlebars, have moved to hibred curved back ones (and a big soft comfy saddle!), rotating back further sounds perfect.
One thing the guy did say was that its normal to have lots of gears on recumbents, as high cadence is important - didn't quite make sense to me why that's more important on a recumbent?
Nige
Made a bad mistake yesterday.
There was a show on in Cambridge over last weekend, and we went along for a look. They had an area of grass roped off for people to try different bikes out on!
Seeing the recumbents, I thought "now's my chance" and I tried a couple. One was a "short wheel base", the other seemed to be roughly a half-way house between conventional and recumbent.
Have to say I loved them!
Guess I'll have to use my new cycle to work bike for the year, get it paid off, before I start shopping....
To be honest, the whole riding position seems to be a natural progression - I started off on drop handlebars, have moved to hibred curved back ones (and a big soft comfy saddle!), rotating back further sounds perfect.
One thing the guy did say was that its normal to have lots of gears on recumbents, as high cadence is important - didn't quite make sense to me why that's more important on a recumbent?
Nige