Anyone out there have a recumbent?

Sheeps Head

Or a trike?:)
Or a recumbent trike?:):)

Morgan

I had one of these for a while.


http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/sm/gte/index_e.html

Sold it on though. It was fun to ride but generally impractical and I'd favour a good road or touring bike over one any day.

DualFrontDiscs

Sheeps Head wrote: »

Or a trike?:)
Or a recumbent trike?:):)

I have a kind of trike, a Christiania cargo trike.
www.christianiabikes.com

DFD

tomasrojo

Back in the dot.com boom, when my colleagues were buying fancy cars, I was vaguely planning, if the boom continued, to buy a windcheetah, which is a recumbent trike.

But I never did. The boom didn't continue. Even had the boom continued, I would have had nowhere to put it. I imagine it would get vandalised quite a bit if you left it in the street too. Seemed a little impractial, as Morgan said.

I still quite like the idea of getting a Moulton (not a recumbent, I know) and putting a fairing on it, to see whether journey times improve. But the IT boom, strangely, hasn't come back.

petethedrummer

There is a guy who commutes on one and is usually on the Nangor Road between 5 and 6 pm. You could sit and wait for him.

Sheeps Head

Morgan:
Never tried a 2 wheeled recumbent.
Imagine they might be a bit impractical, but much easier to pedal into wind.
And we get a lot of those down here.

DualFrontDiscs:
Ah Ha.
I guess that makes it a quad really, even without the pirates:D

I've got one of these:

Sheeps Head

No problem with vandalism down here in West Cork.
But I can see it might be a bit impractical in the Dublin area.

As an aside, sort of.....

The world speed record for human powered vehicles was set by Sam Whittingham on a fully-faired recumbent bicycle on September 18, 2008 with a speed of 132.5 km/h (82.33 mph)

blorg

Why would a 2 wheeled recumbent be impractical? Takes up less space than a trike.

Lumen

Sheeps Head wrote: »

I've got one of these:

Finally, a bicycle (of sorts) on which it is possible to have sex without falling off.

Sheeps Head

Errrrmmmmm....
I'll let you know about that.
In due course.:D:D

Sheeps Head

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

I have a kind of trike, a Christiania cargo trike.
www.christianiabikes.com

DFD

Sorry DFD, didn't look at the site properly and assumed it was a trailer.:o

That must be very useful, for the shopping, and the pirates:)

blue chuzzle

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

I have a kind of trike, a Christiania cargo trike.
www.christianiabikes.com

DFD

did i see you carting your wife and child in this through ranelagh last week?

Chips Lovell

Lumen wrote: »

Finally, a bicycle (of sorts) on which it is possible to have sex without falling off.

It sounds like you've been waiting a long time for that?

DualFrontDiscs

blue chuzzle wrote: »

did i see you carting your wife and child in this through ranelagh last week?

Probably not, only the kids up front. Second parent rides their own bike.

Will have to start cruising Ranelagh, looking for this other bike.

DFD.