| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
If I can ride a bike for 4-6 hours I consider it comfortable. My
Lemond road bike and C;dale cross bike fit that bill fine. I have the
bars only slightly below saddle, a Brooks seat and I;m fine. My MTB's
are torture machines and cannot ride for more than an hour before neck
shouler wrist pain start!!
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!!!
>
> Big Jim has a good point here, but he does not realize how much we recumbent
> cyclist 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
>
>
>
>
> > Prisoner at War wrote:
> >> Okay, so I've been putting through my HP Velo SMGTe through all kinds
> >> of conditions around town for almost a year now. After all the
> >> potholes, rain, mud, grit, heat and cold I finally managed to really
> >> **** it up Sunday. A chainring got bent slightly, and eventually the
> >> chain itself broke and messed up some drivetrain components in the
> >> process!
> >>
> >> I only wonder how folks manage to take this model 'bent on them Third
> >> World tours if I'm having issues with it from simply riding around
> >> town! From the beginning the rear air shock suddenly stopped working.
> >> In another two weeks I managed to shred the top teflon tube somehow.
> >> Then the front disc brake rotor became permanently warped. Then the
> >> back ones. Did I mention the rear mudguard cracking in two? Sunday,
> >> about the whole drivetrain came undone: broken chain, a bent chainring,
> >> the idler spring clamp kaputt. Interestingly, the Thracian wheelset
> >> has held up just fine, AFAIK.
> >>
> >> Good God, but this is starting to be like dealing with your PC: "now
> >> what???" comes to mind more and more. And this seems to me
> >> recumbency's fatal flaw preventing it from wider adoptation: it's too
> >> ****ing complicated! And I can't believe how many of the nuts and
> >> bolts on my SMGTe do not seem to be off-the-shelf stuff you can get at
> >> a hardware store. Also, there should be a re-assembly instruction
> >> sheet for owners included with the bikes, since not all LBSes know or
> >> care about servicing 'bents.
> >>
> >> Recumbents are fun when they work, but mine is finally going to make a
> >> grease-monkey out of me! The HP Velo SMGTe is still the most
> >> comfortable 'bent around, but it requires a lot of attention, not like
> >> my other bikes which I just ride and take to the shop maybe once or
> >> twice a year. So far, I think I've spent $250 getting my 'bent
> >> serviced and refitted in one way or another. JFC!!
> >>
> >> I've now almost completely disassembled my 'bent, so as to clean out
> >> all the grit and grime and reinstall the chain, etc. Damn, this is
> >> going to be some education in bike mechanics! I'm really learning the
> >> hard way...on my own. I'm kind of looking forward to it, out of
> >> curiosity. Just wish I had the space to lay things down properly and
> >> leave them around.
> >
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