SMS wrote:
Tom_Sherman wrote:
SMS aka Steven M. Scharf wrote:
Mark Franzels wrote:
On May 17, 10:37 am, SMS wrote:
I saw this today at the USGS Open House in Menlo Park:

"http://i41.tinypic.com/ouz91t.jpg"

Later I saw the owner riding it.

If collision occurs and the chain goes off, the sharp
slicer disc at the front can slice the person bottom
wide open. Dangerous.

There are a lot more dangers in a recumbent than that unlikely scenario.

No dangers that are not also common to uprights.

No, that's not true. Recumbents have some inherent dangers that don't
exist in diamond frame (or other upright) bicycles. There are visibility
issues, both seeing and being seen. There's the danger of leg suck.

Some recumbents do not have leg suck problems. As for beeing seen
and see, just get a model where you sit high.