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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:54:03 +0100, "Gareth Crawshaw" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm not sure about the recumbents...
Ride one and you will be :-D
>the roads around can be quite twisty - a lot of blind bends - hilly, and quite narrow. As I said in
>an earlier post, traffic is something that concerns me around here: because the number of cars is
>low, people drive extremely quickly and I have seen many close calls with people bumping up
>embankments (there are no pavements or curbs...) just to get past each other in places... So... I'm
>not sure about the safety aspect of a recumbent on the roads around me - although that could be
>just my lack of knowledge in these things?
That sounds like my commute. Country lanes and rural A roads, mad cagers, buses, the occasional
loose animal - all perfectly normal. You are in no more peril on a 'bent than on a wedgie, and in
some ways less because instead of ignoring you as a non-threat and killing you, they look twice and
try to work out what you are riding.
>Plus... cycling in the evenings and mornings, especially during the winter, a third of my rides
>this last year have been in the dark (there is no lighting up the country roads!)... Just a
>thought. Would those considerations have any impact on your thoughts about a recument?
Oh yes. Makes it much more desirable
In the winter, when the roads are icy, I often wish I'd
splashed out for the extra wheel, but I managed to ride to work in the snow OK on my two-wheel
lowbike. Of course I don't know exactly what the roads round you are like, but it hasn't been a
problem for me and I've been riding recumbent since September last, commuting 15 miles round
trip daily.
I have a flag and a RealLite, of course. The flag is so people can see something waving around, as
the research shows that wobbliness attracts more space from cars. We tried this with my 9-year-old;
a flag on the back of his bike waves around like anything and gets him appreciably more room from
the cagers.
Guy
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>I'm not sure about the recumbents...
Ride one and you will be :-D
>the roads around can be quite twisty - a lot of blind bends - hilly, and quite narrow. As I said in
>an earlier post, traffic is something that concerns me around here: because the number of cars is
>low, people drive extremely quickly and I have seen many close calls with people bumping up
>embankments (there are no pavements or curbs...) just to get past each other in places... So... I'm
>not sure about the safety aspect of a recumbent on the roads around me - although that could be
>just my lack of knowledge in these things?
That sounds like my commute. Country lanes and rural A roads, mad cagers, buses, the occasional
loose animal - all perfectly normal. You are in no more peril on a 'bent than on a wedgie, and in
some ways less because instead of ignoring you as a non-threat and killing you, they look twice and
try to work out what you are riding.
>Plus... cycling in the evenings and mornings, especially during the winter, a third of my rides
>this last year have been in the dark (there is no lighting up the country roads!)... Just a
>thought. Would those considerations have any impact on your thoughts about a recument?
Oh yes. Makes it much more desirable
In the winter, when the roads are icy, I often wish I'dsplashed out for the extra wheel, but I managed to ride to work in the snow OK on my two-wheel
lowbike. Of course I don't know exactly what the roads round you are like, but it hasn't been a
problem for me and I've been riding recumbent since September last, commuting 15 miles round
trip daily.
I have a flag and a RealLite, of course. The flag is so people can see something waving around, as
the research shows that wobbliness attracts more space from cars. We tried this with my 9-year-old;
a flag on the back of his bike waves around like anything and gets him appreciably more room from
the cagers.
Guy
===
** WARNING ** This posting may contain traces of irony. http://www.chapmancentral.com (BT ADSL and
dynamic DNS permitting)
NOTE: BT Openworld have now blocked port 25 (without notice), so old mail addresses may no longer
work. Apologies.
