Head first over handlebars?

Response to Alistair Gunn:

Quoted message said:

Does that mean us "Dark Siders" should stop trying to convert everyone we
see? Afterall, if recumbents become too common then we might become more
invisible?

That's what the lycra chicken suit is for...

.... until people get used to chickens riding recumbents...

--
Mark, UK
"Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions."

In article <[email hidden]>, Danny

Colyer () said:

Mark McNeill said:

I'd speculate that the incidence of SMIDSYs might be slightly lower with
recumbents, because of the WTF factor; but I'm putting that possibility
forward with no confidence that there'll be any supporting evidence for
it. ;-)

I read a story many years ago about an elderly driver who became so
engrossed in watching the pumping action of a recumbent rider's legs
that he didn't notice the car in front had stopped. Still, at least the
rider wasn't involved in the SMIDSY.

I have witnessed this very thing myself. WVM is so busy staring at
Kingcycle that he fails to note presence of second WV stopped at
pedestrian crossing outside Leyton tube station.

I laughed.

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
It is impossible to eat a banana without looking like a tw*t.

Pete Biggs said:

....for an orangutan if on a road bike with quite some reach to the bars.

like this?
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_1627.JPG

...d

David Martin said:

Pete Biggs said:

....for an orangutan if on a road bike with quite some reach
to the bars.

like this?
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_1627.JPG

..d

That position is not too far away from
http://www.converge.org.nz/hpvcanterbury/photos_prone.html
You just need to lower the front seat a bit.

--
Cheers
the.Mark

David Martin said:

Pete Biggs said:

....for an orangutan if on a road bike with quite some reach to the bars.

like this?
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_1627.JPG

cf. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/images/Solotand-T1.JPEG

David Martin said:

Quoted message said:

....for an orangutan if on a road bike with quite some reach to the
bars.

like this?
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/small_IMG_1627.JPG

Yes it does help to have another chainset ;-)

~PB