This is getting expensive (helmets)

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
Can someone post pictures of this "punchbowl"?

www.ChainReaction.com/diary.htm and look for the youtube video near the top
of the page....

Heck, I would not hesitate to ride that on my recumbent trike (if it was
not so far away).

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
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Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
Can someone post pictures of this "punchbowl"?

www.ChainReaction.com/diary.htm and look for the youtube video near the
top of the page....

Heck, I would not hesitate to ride that on my recumbent trike (if it was
not so far away).

I don't think you'd have any trouble getting down, but back up the other
side might be fun to watch. Give me a couple days' warning so I can be
there.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
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Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
Can someone post pictures of this "punchbowl"?
www.ChainReaction.com/diary.htm and look for the youtube video near the
top of the page....
Heck, I would not hesitate to ride that on my recumbent trike (if it was
not so far away).

I don't think you'd have any trouble getting down, but back up the other
side might be fun to watch. Give me a couple days' warning so I can be
there.

I have low speed all wheel drive. Pedal in the lowest gear, while
rotating the front wheels by hand.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

On Dec 11, 5:04 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote:
Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Dec 10, 6:15 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote:

To add some fuel to the fire, I will mention that "going over the bars"
is EXTREMELY unlikely on a proper recumbent bicycle.

So you think that Under-Seat-Steering makes a 'bent improper? They
spend all their time over the bars.

'Bent riders are eating their own!

True under seat steering (USS), is greatly inferior to controls besides
the riders legs (BSS). Most recumbents advertised as having USS are
actually BSS, e.g. this is a BSS bicycle:
http://www.challenge-recumbents.com/images/picture.php?filename=image....


Yeah, we don't really care. You're still annoying.

Hank Wirtz wrote:
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Yeah, we don't really care. You're still annoying.


WOO HOO!!!!

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

On Dec 11, 8:32 pm, Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Dec 11, 5:04 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote:



Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Dec 10, 6:15 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote:

To add some fuel to the fire, I will mention that "going over the bars"
is EXTREMELY unlikely on a proper recumbent bicycle.

So you think that Under-Seat-Steering makes a 'bent improper? They
spend all their time over the bars.

'Bent riders are eating their own!

True under seat steering (USS), is greatly inferior to controls besides
the riders legs (BSS). Most recumbents advertised as having USS are
actually BSS, e.g. this is a BSS bicycle:
http://www.challenge-recumbents.com/images/picture.php?filename=image....

Yeah, we don't really care. You're still annoying.

You noticed that, too, eh?