Unfortunately, there aren't many (any) stores that carry ALL recumbents available out there for test driving.
True or false: those who have experienced psiatica and/or 'recumbent butt' would do better with a recumbent trike that lays the rider down, distributing their weight throughout their body (instead of placing the majority on their rear end, for favor of a more upright 'visible touring' position)?
If the answer to the question above is true, then how is a potential purchaser of a recumbent trike supposed to get an accurate idea of how well 'laid down' a trike is, when most trikes only provide statistical facts of how high off the ground the SEAT is (SOMETIMES the hight of the head), and a picture (which is oftimes ambiguous, at best, for the size range involved is (oftimes unknowingly) inextricably tied into the length of the rider (the trike oftimes designed for a FULL RANGE of rider sizes, and DISPLAYED for only ONE of those lengths!) NEVER have I seen accurate figures for the HEAD HEIGHTH!
Do you see my dilemma? At 5' 10.5" I want to lay my head DOWN, preferably on a replaceable mesh seat (not the more aging, costly, diffifult to find/replace, less weight tolerant fiberglass plastic shells), have my weight distributed throughout both my back and bottom, legs more UP (more than my present Thunderbolt, Pursuit, and Horizon two-wheelers, and next time with three wheels).
Cat trike Speed looks close. More expensive version of Greenspeeds (small wheels) looks close. I can't tell how I proportionally fit on the 'bottom' part of the mesh seat by a picture, and stats often seem incomplete to make up for the inability to fully 'be there'.
Suggestions?
True or false: those who have experienced psiatica and/or 'recumbent butt' would do better with a recumbent trike that lays the rider down, distributing their weight throughout their body (instead of placing the majority on their rear end, for favor of a more upright 'visible touring' position)?
If the answer to the question above is true, then how is a potential purchaser of a recumbent trike supposed to get an accurate idea of how well 'laid down' a trike is, when most trikes only provide statistical facts of how high off the ground the SEAT is (SOMETIMES the hight of the head), and a picture (which is oftimes ambiguous, at best, for the size range involved is (oftimes unknowingly) inextricably tied into the length of the rider (the trike oftimes designed for a FULL RANGE of rider sizes, and DISPLAYED for only ONE of those lengths!) NEVER have I seen accurate figures for the HEAD HEIGHTH!
Do you see my dilemma? At 5' 10.5" I want to lay my head DOWN, preferably on a replaceable mesh seat (not the more aging, costly, diffifult to find/replace, less weight tolerant fiberglass plastic shells), have my weight distributed throughout both my back and bottom, legs more UP (more than my present Thunderbolt, Pursuit, and Horizon two-wheelers, and next time with three wheels).
Cat trike Speed looks close. More expensive version of Greenspeeds (small wheels) looks close. I can't tell how I proportionally fit on the 'bottom' part of the mesh seat by a picture, and stats often seem incomplete to make up for the inability to fully 'be there'.
Suggestions?