Dual 26 LWB Bikes... Too big?

[stratrider]

With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?


Jim Reilly

 

[Roger Zoul]

"stratrider" <[email protected]> wrote

> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?

What do you mean? They fit wherever one wants to fit them.

IMO, dual 26s work best on flatlands. Not so great in hilly area due to
harder starts in uphill. Not everyone loves TE bikes, either.

 

[DougC]

stratrider wrote:
> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?
>
>
> Jim Reilly

If I was to take an extended tour on a bicycle, I would prefer it be one
that had dual 26/559 wheels and that could take tires 2" wide, just to
simplify the potential problem of finding replacement tires and tubes.
(-and the rims should be drilled for Schrader as well-)
Any department store as well as any bike shop will have tubes and
(usable) tires in this size, from widths of around 1.5 to 2+ inches and
in various tread patterns.

-----

The SWB I had was easier to transport, but I found the steering of
shorter-wheelbase bikes to be rather jittery and tiresome, and of no
practical advantage.
~

 

[Jon Bendtsen]

Roger Zoul wrote:
> "stratrider" <[email protected]> wrote
>
>> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
>> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
>> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
>> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
>> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
>> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?
>
> What do you mean? They fit wherever one wants to fit them.
>
> IMO, dual 26s work best on flatlands. Not so great in hilly area due to
> harder starts in uphill. Not everyone loves TE bikes, either.

I have a dual 26 cruzbike freerider. I think it works
fine up hills, but i dont have anything to compare with.



JonB

 

[Roger Zoul]

"Jon Bendtsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Roger Zoul wrote:
>> "stratrider" <[email protected]> wrote
>>
>>> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
>>> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
>>> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
>>> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
>>> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
>>> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?
>>
>> What do you mean? They fit wherever one wants to fit them.
>>
>> IMO, dual 26s work best on flatlands. Not so great in hilly area due to
>> harder starts in uphill. Not everyone loves TE bikes, either.
>
> I have a dual 26 cruzbike freerider. I think it works
> fine up hills, but i dont have anything to compare with.
>

Interesting. So you never have trouble wth being in the proper gear when
starting on a hill? And, do you climb steep hills (12 - 18% grades)?

Well, I just googled your bike. It's not a LWB....different dynamics.
Probably much easier to climb on that than a LWB 26/26.

 

[Tom Sherman]

Roger Zoul wrote:
> "stratrider" <[email protected]> wrote
>
>> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
>> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
>> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
>> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
>> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
>> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?
>
> What do you mean? They fit wherever one wants to fit them.
>
But not in as many places as a bike like this:
<http://www.trisled.com.au/nitro.html>.

> IMO, dual 26s work best on flatlands. Not so great in hilly area due to
> harder starts in uphill. Not everyone loves TE bikes, either.
>
Yes, the Easy Racers' designs are best suited to those who want an
upright seat back and low cranks, which is a sizable percentage of
recumbent riders, but certainly not everyone.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

 

[Jon Bendtsen]

Roger Zoul wrote:
> "Jon Bendtsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Roger Zoul wrote:
>>> "stratrider" <[email protected]> wrote
>>>
>>>> With two more years behind me largely on a Bacchetta Strada. I admit,
>>>> I am now so infatuated with the Strada, I am really struggling to see
>>>> where the dual 26 LWB fits. The TE and GRR are legendary. The
>>>> Barcroft, Volae, and Bacchetta 26-20 bikes are solid do it all bikes.
>>>> The lowracers and highracers are clearly cover the performance
>>>> recumbent market. So where do the big lwb bikes fit?
>>> What do you mean? They fit wherever one wants to fit them.
>>>
>>> IMO, dual 26s work best on flatlands. Not so great in hilly area due to
>>> harder starts in uphill. Not everyone loves TE bikes, either.
>> I have a dual 26 cruzbike freerider. I think it works
>> fine up hills, but i dont have anything to compare with.
>>
>
> Interesting. So you never have trouble wth being in the proper gear when
> starting on a hill? And, do you climb steep hills (12 - 18% grades)?

if i suddenly emergency breake i end up in a high gear and
i cant start uphill. Besides that i live in Denmark, and we
dont really have long steep hills.

I do wish the bike had a Nuvinci gear hub so i can change
when standing still and find just the right gear.


> Well, I just googled your bike. It's not a LWB....different dynamics.
> Probably much easier to climb on that than a LWB 26/26.

Well, what do i know. I just bought it.

 

[DougC]

Jon Bendtsen wrote:

> ....
> if i suddenly emergency break i end up in a high gear and
> i cant start uphill. Besides that i live in Denmark, and we
> dont really have long steep hills.
>
> I do wish the bike had a Nuvinci gear hub so i can change
> when standing still and find just the right gear.
>
>

NuVinci isn't the only one that can do that. Internal-gear hubs can do
it too....

~

 

[Jon Bendtsen]

DougC wrote:
> Jon Bendtsen wrote:
>
>> ....
>> if i suddenly emergency break i end up in a high gear and
>> i cant start uphill. Besides that i live in Denmark, and we
>> dont really have long steep hills.
>>
>> I do wish the bike had a Nuvinci gear hub so i can change
>> when standing still and find just the right gear.
>>
>>
>
> NuVinci isn't the only one that can do that. Internal-gear hubs can do
> it too....

It is true that other internal gear hubs can change gears
while standing still, but only Nuvinci gives me the posibility
to chose JUST the right gear.



JonB