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09-27-2003, 01:10 PM

jacques <jamnospam@bluewin.ch> wrote:

: I may consider buying a bent in the next months. I hesitate because it is
: expensive and I'm not sure I will really like it in the long term. I've
: read a lot of stuff explaining all the advantages of the bent thing.

More research might be in order... Eventually the urge to buy
becomes greater, and people shell out the money. I think this can
be a very good way of learning about bents, you get to experience
all the practical issues and learn the intricacies of a particular
model and the general characteristics of a certain category of a
bent

No bike is perfect and bents come in all hues of the
rainbow so eventually people get the 2nd bent with a different set
of basic characteristics...

You can go through old threads from the newsgroups at
http://groups.google.com/ - there are lots of them...

: As a skeptical person I would like to have the cons too. I don't think I
: will find them on alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent.

This conclusion might be incorrect, because:

Bent users will face a number of unfamiliar issues when they adopt
the pastime. A good way to get over them is to discuss them with
the online community.

People will like some models and dislike the others. Criticism can
- and should - be voiced even if people take into account the
sentiments of those who ride or build the misfit models.

On alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent you can find people who ride bents
daily. On a generic newsgroup you can bump into people who give
cons about bents based on armchair reasoning or commonly accepted
myths. In any case the most enthusiastic recumbent evangelists
would be found in both newsgroups.

About people who went bent and came back... I know there is at
least a small number of those cases, but I don't have a clear
picture of the reasons. Maybe a good part of those people went
bent for speed but the expectations didn't realize. This could be
because of a short conditioning period to bent riding (your
muscles could need years) or a model of bent that doesn't offer
top performance.

--
Risto Varanka | http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/hpv/hpv.html
varis at no spam please iki fi

09-27-2003, 01:10 PM	#22 (permalink)
risto.varanka@secure.from.spam.helsinki.fi Posts: n/a	Re: Unhappy bentriders ? jacques <jamnospam@bluewin.ch> wrote: : I may consider buying a bent in the next months. I hesitate because it is : expensive and I'm not sure I will really like it in the long term. I've : read a lot of stuff explaining all the advantages of the bent thing. More research might be in order... Eventually the urge to buy becomes greater, and people shell out the money. I think this can be a very good way of learning about bents, you get to experience all the practical issues and learn the intricacies of a particular model and the general characteristics of a certain category of a bent No bike is perfect and bents come in all hues of the rainbow so eventually people get the 2nd bent with a different set of basic characteristics... You can go through old threads from the newsgroups at http://groups.google.com/ - there are lots of them... : As a skeptical person I would like to have the cons too. I don't think I : will find them on alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent. This conclusion might be incorrect, because: Bent users will face a number of unfamiliar issues when they adopt the pastime. A good way to get over them is to discuss them with the online community. People will like some models and dislike the others. Criticism can - and should - be voiced even if people take into account the sentiments of those who ride or build the misfit models. On alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent you can find people who ride bents daily. On a generic newsgroup you can bump into people who give cons about bents based on armchair reasoning or commonly accepted myths. In any case the most enthusiastic recumbent evangelists would be found in both newsgroups. About people who went bent and came back... I know there is at least a small number of those cases, but I don't have a clear picture of the reasons. Maybe a good part of those people went bent for speed but the expectations didn't realize. This could be because of a short conditioning period to bent riding (your muscles could need years) or a model of bent that doesn't offer top performance. -- Risto Varanka \| http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/hpv/hpv.html varis at no spam please iki fi