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 Posted: 06/29/04 - 12:09 Post subject: is there any such thing..
...as an affordable recumbant bike?
Used would be ok.
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Posted: 06/29/04 - 12:29 Post subject:
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Posted: 06/29/04 - 13:39 Post subject:
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Anyway you go, I think you'll frankly be so happy with your back, neck, butt and wrists going painfree as the miles click by, price begins to not be as much a factor when you can ride and absolutely love every single mile.  |
Does that include hips? 
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Posted: 06/29/04 - 13:44 Post subject:
Why are you looking for a recumbent bike? (just curious)
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Posted: 06/29/04 - 13:54 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | | jrjo wrote: |
Anyway you go, I think you'll frankly be so happy with your back, neck, butt and wrists going painfree as the miles click by, price begins to not be as much a factor when you can ride and absolutely love every single mile. |
Does that include hips? |
As compared to an upright, I really can't say there's that much of a difference there. As you know, my weakest link is my hip too and any kind of biking where it's non-impact, the o' hip is good to go.
I will say though, the stroke is slightly different, so all I can recommend is that you find a recumbent bike shop and try out a few. If an upright does give your hip fits, there's still a good chance the right style of recumbent might do the trick as you pedal in such a different position.
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Posted: 06/29/04 - 13:59 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | Maddie's Wench wrote: | | jrjo wrote: |
Anyway you go, I think you'll frankly be so happy with your back, neck, butt and wrists going painfree as the miles click by, price begins to not be as much a factor when you can ride and absolutely love every single mile. |
Does that include hips? |
As compared to an upright, I really can't say there's that much of a difference there. As you know, my weakest link is my hip too and any kind of biking where it's non-impact, the o' hip is good to go.
I will say though, the stroke is slightly different, so all I can recommend is that you find a recumbent bike shop and try out a few. If an upright does give your hip fits, there's still a good chance the right style of recumbent might do the trick as you pedal in such a different position. |
I hope so. Even a really WIDE seat puts pressure on my hip which ends up hurting the next day.
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Posted: 07/01/04 - 12:52 Post subject:
You know MW, I was thinking about this for a bit on my ride in this morning. In my reading up about recumbents early on, one of the things I came across said, "you don't ride on a recumbent seat, you ride in a recumbent seat". Such being that a huge part of your weight isn't even placed on your butt. The further back you can feel comfortable leaning the seat the better. The weight distribution becomes less and less on your butt and more on your back right on up to your shoulder blades. So much so, that on a real steep climb or an intense pace, the proper recumbent pedalling feeling will be that of being out of the seat using your shoulders as leverage against the seat and the only other point of contact being your feet on the pedals. The beauty of this is just how much leverage that position gives you. It's no wonder the human powered speed records are set by recumbent style bicycles. The feeling is something else
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Posted: 07/01/04 - 17:08 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | You know MW, I was thinking about this for a bit on my ride in this morning. In my reading up about recumbents early on, one of the things I came across said, "you don't ride on a recumbent seat, you ride in a recumbent seat". Such being that a huge part of your weight isn't even placed on your butt. The further back you can feel comfortable leaning the seat the better. The weight distribution becomes less and less on your butt and more on your back right on up to your shoulder blades. So much so, that on a real steep climb or an intense pace, the proper recumbent pedalling feeling will be that of being out of the seat using your shoulders as leverage against the seat and the only other point of contact being your feet on the pedals. The beauty of this is just how much leverage that position gives you. It's no wonder the human powered speed records are set by recumbent style bicycles. The feeling is something else |
Sounds great! We're going to the local Mennonite bike guy this weekend and maybe up to State College where there is a shop that does nothing but bents.
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Posted: 07/02/04 - 10:53 Post subject:
Shirks? Lots of people I know got their bikes there. and he is supposed to have a whole barn full of parts. Bike.Geek.Heaven.
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Posted: 07/02/04 - 12:55 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | | jrjo wrote: | | You know MW, I was thinking about this for a bit on my ride in this morning. In my reading up about recumbents early on, one of the things I came across said, "you don't ride on a recumbent seat, you ride in a recumbent seat". Such being that a huge part of your weight isn't even placed on your butt. The further back you can feel comfortable leaning the seat the better. The weight distribution becomes less and less on your butt and more on your back right on up to your shoulder blades. So much so, that on a real steep climb or an intense pace, the proper recumbent pedalling feeling will be that of being out of the seat using your shoulders as leverage against the seat and the only other point of contact being your feet on the pedals. The beauty of this is just how much leverage that position gives you. It's no wonder the human powered speed records are set by recumbent style bicycles. The feeling is something else |
Sounds great! We're going to the local Mennonite bike guy this weekend and maybe up to State College where there is a shop that does nothing but bents. |
Let me know how you make out. I keep thinking about this option too because I HATE cycling because of what it does to my back and shoulders.
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Posted: 07/26/04 - 10:03 Post subject:
I guess I will bump this one up to the top because I went to Shirks this weekend and bought a "bent"
I am having a great time riding it, and having none of the problems I experienced with "standard" bikes.
Shirks is bike.geek.heavan!! Other than a bent shop, where else are ya gona be able to test ride 6 bents of different styles?
We even got some stuff for Maddies bike for FREE! and Luke made me a sweet deal.
TriBob, we gota go riding together somtime. And yes, mine is a racing model 
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