| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
"Jim Behning" <jimbehning@doesthisstoppork.mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> <bigjim@backpacker.com> wrote in message
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>> ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!
>>
>>> 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!!
>>
>> 4 to 6 hours in one day is not nearly good enough. Can you ride 8 to 10
>> hours a day for 2 weeks at a time? I thought not! No, if you want to be
>> able to do that you will have to get a recumbent. There is no other way.
>>
> The thing is you can ride an upright bike, get your ride done in 4 hours,
> get your shower, get your lunch and still see the recumbent ride in hours
> later. 6 hours on my road bike is 100 miles if I am riding easy. Yes I
> have ridden for a week straight 5-8 hours a day. I could have ridden two
> weeks but I scheduled a week for vacation. I have no desire to sit in a
> chair 8 hours a day on vacation or at work. The body is not designed to
> sit for that long.
Yes, by all means, get the day's ride over with as quickly as possible! That
is an upright philosophy, not a recumbent philosophy. I LIKE to ride my
recumbent bike. In fact, I like it so much I want to spend all day on my
bike. I am never in any hurry to get the ride over with. In fact, I like to
prolong the ride as much as possible That is what a recumbent does for you.
Riding a recumbent is not just for exercise and fitness, it is for fun. The
fun factor soon disappears on an upright after a couple of hours or so. Why?
Because they are uncomfortable.
When I was doing week long bike tours, the only cyclists ever cycling around
town after the day's ride were recumbent cyclists. Everyone else was back in
camp rubbing rubbing their butts.That is not for me as I am way too smart to
put up with that kind of foolishness.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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