12-26-2006, 02:20 PM
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#7 (permalink)
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"Edward Dolan" <edolan@iw.net> wrote in message
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> "bfd" <bfd853@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1167172796.865108.294590@n51g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com...
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>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>> <bigjim@backpacker.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1167157428.453941.321050@a3g2000cwd.googlegro ups.com...
>>> > Get a real bike and more people can fix it!!!
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> Have you tried Rivendell's style of fitting? Maybe some reading
>> material will help:
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>> http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...pick_your_bike
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>> http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...g_a_frame_size
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>> http://www.rivbike.com/how_to_pick_y...iding_position
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>> http://www.rivbike.com/assorted_read...et-up_mistakes
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>> Good Luck with all that!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Good Luck with all that - indeed!
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> Regards,
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> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56, and
in fact can live with upright bicycles.
Kerry
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