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Old June 2nd 09, 03:15 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech,alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
Andre Jute[_2_]
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Default Groucho Marx got it right

On Jun 1, 4:24*am, Hank Wirtz wrote:
On May 31, 7:44*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:



"Tom Sherman °_°" wrote in ...


Andre Jute wrote:

[...]
So how come the entire thing is so low that you are stressed out from
fear of being splatted not by a bus but by a common low hatchback
because the driver didn't see you?


Drivers notice trikes much more than run of the mill [run-of-the-mill]
bicycles in my experience.


The above is not necessarily true. In any event, if and when you get run
over, the driver will say for sure that he did not notice you.
[...]


Customers are offered virtually nothing but extremes, and at
outrageous prices.


Let us see Mr. Jute build and sell one both at a profit and reasonable
price.


Recumbents are outrageously overpriced. The very small market for them has a
lot to do with it, but still it would be nice if someone would come out with
a recumbent for a few hundred dollars instead of the usual thousand dollars
or so.
[...]


Regards,


Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota


http://www.actionbent.com/- starting around $750.


Thanks, Wirtzie. But the nastiness of the bent riders has quite turned
me off recumbents. Who would want to belong to a club such
undesirables inhabit? -- Andre Jute

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