long wheel base vs short wheel base recumbents

"Edward Dolan" wrote in
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"BioHazard" wrote in message
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"nowater" wrote in news:443ef409$1_3
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"Edward Dolan" wrote
There is no recumbent ever made that can be ridden hands off. Why
is
Mr.
Kimmel telling us tall tales?

http://www.python-lowracer.de/



I ride my Marauder lowracer hands off all the time. Even have a video
of it for proof.

Brad

I have 12 recumbent bikes sitting around my house and I cannot ride
any of them hands off, not even for a second. Who I am going to
believe - myself or some nut who calls himself BioHazard?


Well, I think you should believe a nut who calls himself Biohazard as
this video will prove...

http://www.atomiczombie.com/secret/nohands.wmv

More of the bike can be found in the gallery and plans section of the
site.

Cheers.

"Peter Clinch" wrote in message
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BioHazard wrote:

I ride my Marauder lowracer hands off all the time. Even have a video of
it for proof.

The Flevobike "Bike" and "Racer" models don't have conventional handlebar
and fork steering but pivot in the middle, steering controlled by the
legs. The bars are merely are place to put the brake and gear levers and
have nothing to do with steering, so it's no probem for their riders to
get about hands-free.

German special-needs specialist Draisin make a recumbent trike that has
optional adaptations to be steered with the hips. Not only can it be
ridden hands free, but by a rider with no hands, or even arms! (braking
adaptations too to allow safe riding.)

But then since these are merely illustrations that Ed doesn't know what
he's talking about, it's none too surprising such machines exist...

I have 12 recumbents of every configuration. They are all older models, but
I assure you that none of them can be ridden hands off.

Any bike that does not have conventional handlebar and fork steering is
strictly for a nut and a screwball like Peter Clinch. But note his signature
below. Does that not tell us everything we will ever want to know about him.

Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

I can't begin to tell you how much his signature disgusts me - and indeed
horrifies me! How can such a person exist? Please note my modest and humble
signature below and then you tell me who is sane and who is insane.
Gentlemen, I rest my case!

Regards,

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