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Jude T. McGloin
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Right on, John!, Additionally I'll add, with time one will develop "Bentistic Musclarity" I too
can't maintain anything near the speeds I do on my recumbent on my DF.
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Jude....///Bacchetta AERO St. Michaels and Tilghman Island.. Maryland Wheel Doctor Cycle and Sports,
Inc 1-800-586-6645 "John Foltz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> PeterS wrote:
> > This is my second season riding my Barcroft Virginia. I am not the strongest rider out there so
> > it could just be me but... I just can't see how other recumbent riders can say they are able to
> > "smoke roadies" etc..
> >
> > While under some road circumstances I can get up to a comparable speed there seems no way that a
> > recumbent rider can maintain the same speeds. I live in Denver and ride on flat to moderately
> > hilly trails. Most are paved some bumpy some very smooth. My observations are that most
> > reasonably fit people on a road bike appear to ride along effortlessly at a much greater speed
> > than I can. (15-17 MPH)
> >
> > I'd be iterested to hear comments from other riders. What speed do you maintain and honestly,
> > are you really competetive with a good road bike?
> >
>
> Yes, recumbents can and will maintain respectable speeds. Tonight I rode my 'slow' bike - the
> V-Rex without a fairing - and averaged 21 mph for 29 miles. That's an overall computed
> average; cruising speed 'on the flats' ran closer to 23 mph. On my DF road bike I was strictly
> a 17 mph rider.
>
> Am I competitive with a good road bike? Yeah, I'd say so. I've been known to poseur-pass 26 mph
> pacelines. They go ballistic when I ding my bell as I go by, but they are powerless to do anything
> about it. >
>
> Too many people expect a recumbent to automatically make them fast, and it ain't gonna happen. The
> aero advantage doesn't even start unless you can first ride at 17 or 18 mph. And that's assuming
> you even *have* an aero advantage. Most American recumbents are only barely better than riding a
> DF on the drops, unless you add a fairing. Work on the engine: get a HR monitor and a book on HR
> training, and use them.
>
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>
> John Foltz --- O _ Baron --- _O _ V-Rex 24 --- _\\/\-%) _________(_)`=()___________________(_)=
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can't maintain anything near the speeds I do on my recumbent on my DF.
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Jude....///Bacchetta AERO St. Michaels and Tilghman Island.. Maryland Wheel Doctor Cycle and Sports,
Inc 1-800-586-6645 "John Foltz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> PeterS wrote:
> > This is my second season riding my Barcroft Virginia. I am not the strongest rider out there so
> > it could just be me but... I just can't see how other recumbent riders can say they are able to
> > "smoke roadies" etc..
> >
> > While under some road circumstances I can get up to a comparable speed there seems no way that a
> > recumbent rider can maintain the same speeds. I live in Denver and ride on flat to moderately
> > hilly trails. Most are paved some bumpy some very smooth. My observations are that most
> > reasonably fit people on a road bike appear to ride along effortlessly at a much greater speed
> > than I can. (15-17 MPH)
> >
> > I'd be iterested to hear comments from other riders. What speed do you maintain and honestly,
> > are you really competetive with a good road bike?
> >
>
> Yes, recumbents can and will maintain respectable speeds. Tonight I rode my 'slow' bike - the
> V-Rex without a fairing - and averaged 21 mph for 29 miles. That's an overall computed
> average; cruising speed 'on the flats' ran closer to 23 mph. On my DF road bike I was strictly
> a 17 mph rider.
>
> Am I competitive with a good road bike? Yeah, I'd say so. I've been known to poseur-pass 26 mph
> pacelines. They go ballistic when I ding my bell as I go by, but they are powerless to do anything
> about it. >
>
> Too many people expect a recumbent to automatically make them fast, and it ain't gonna happen. The
> aero advantage doesn't even start unless you can first ride at 17 or 18 mph. And that's assuming
> you even *have* an aero advantage. Most American recumbents are only barely better than riding a
> DF on the drops, unless you add a fairing. Work on the engine: get a HR monitor and a book on HR
> training, and use them.
>
> --
>
> John Foltz --- O _ Baron --- _O _ V-Rex 24 --- _\\/\-%) _________(_)`=()___________________(_)=
> (_)_____