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| Looking at the pix of various group rides, I get the impression that
| every recumbent bike in those states is faired, and many are also
| body-socked. Is it because of the rain, or are there fierce winds?
| OT, what do upright cyclists do, use partial fairings? or just suffer?
I used a Zzipper for a couple decades before recumbency, and sometimes
use one on my Vanguard. Actually rarely these days, partly because of
problems with the fairing but I suppose mostly because I have turned
into kind of a fair-weather cyclist, now that I live within walking
distance of places I might have ridden to. The other recumbents I see
rarely if ever have fairings, but I suspect they're not daily riders
either.
Weather varies around Washington and Oregon, but here in Seattle the
wind is fairly light. The rain isn't all that much in volume either,
it just stays too long at times.
Of course there's the Joe Kochanowski influence, too.
Donn