| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
Remember who you are talking to Tim-
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
Tim McNamara wrote:
> In article <zq6dnWrqwqzKMQzYnZ2dnUVZ_syunZ2d@prairiewave.com> ,
> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@iw.net> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Oh bull**** as usual, Edward. I find my uprights comfortable enough to
> ride up to 400 km in 24 hours. How much more comfortable do I need my
> bike to be? I'm 47. I know people in their 50s and 60s and even 70s
> who do this kind of riding on uprights quite comfortably.
>
> Once again you are overgeneralizing. What is true for you may not be
> true for others. If recumbents keep you riding I think that's great and
> more power to you. If I develop some kind of health problem which
> results in a choice between not riding and getting a recumbent, I'll get
> a recumbent. A few friends of mine ride recumbents because they just
> like 'em. Two friends of mine with cervical disk problems have gone
> this route quite happily because they don't aggravate their proximal
> and/or distal pain. I have a cervical disk problem of my own and who
> knows? I might be on a recumbent one of these days too. It's great
> that there are options!
>
> As far as the comfort question goes, for some reason most people I see
> on recumbents around here are middle aged guys who are 50-75 pounds
> overweight. I think I have spotted the problem with normal bikes being
> uncomfortable for them. I hear a lot of complaints about "recumbent
> butt" to make it clear that recumbents are no panacea.
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