[email protected] wrote:
> Anybody ever try riding a recumbent with full suspension on a mountain
> bike trail? I was looking at a Cannondale Bent 1 and it looked like it
> might be able to handle some offroad stuff.
For some values of "mountain bike trail", yes, for others it's a
non-starter. For reasonably benign single track it's not as good as an
MTB but it's still fine: done plenty of this on my Streetmachine, and I
did a fair measure of e.g. disused railways and runs through the woods
on my old fully rigid Orbit Crystal. The owner of Ligfietscentrum in
Briel (NL) has an album of pictures where he took a SWB 'bent on an
offroad tour with a group of MTBers, and he seemed to do just fine.
Note that he despises front suspension and was using rigid forks.
But for anything where you need to be out of the saddle to shift weight
around, bunny-hop etc. it's not going to work...
Pete.
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