| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
"KERRY MONTGOMERY" <kamontgo@teleport.com> wrote in message
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> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@iw.net> wrote in message
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>> "bfd" <bfd853@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>>> <bigjim@backpacker.com> wrote in message
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>>>> > Get a real bike and more people can fix it!!!
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> Have you tried Rivendell's style of fitting? Maybe some reading
>>> material will help:
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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.
>>
>> 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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> I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56,
> and in fact can live with upright bicycles.
> Kerry
Yeah, but you are probably an iron man, a species of humans that I have
never had any truck with. Most of us are not iron men. We lose our physical
fitness and strength as we age - and so will you too eventually. I can
assure you that by age 70 you will worship at the altar of Ed Dolan the
Great. You will wonder how I could have been so wise and how you could have
been so ignorant.
The fact is that recumbents are mostly for older folks. I remember when I
thought I could ride uprights forever, but reality intruded. Recumbents mean
that you can continue to ride bikes longer than you ever thought possible
and thereby insure continued fitness and perhaps a longer life.
But I must admit I now see the Grim Reaper around every corner. In the end
of course, nothing can save you, not even cycling!
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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