Precisely how bad is a recumbent at climbing hills?

Tom Sherman wrote:
slide wrote:
[....]
Well, my CF Rans isn't a recumbent nor a fully conventional bike so it
seems to share some attributes of both.[...]

What is a "Rans" (sic)?

Form of the verb Runs.

On Nov 29, 10:45*am, Tom Sherman
wrote:
aka Andrés Muro wrote:

[...]
My name which is in Spanish is spelled Andrés. After living in the US
23 years, I have been spelling it without the accent. When I write in
Spanish I put all the accents everywhere, but always forget to put the
accent in the e.

And we thought your correct name was ".

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Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the precipitate.

yeah, I need to keep people guessing. its sort of an intelligence
test.

first name: andr
last name esmuro

or, first name: andresm
last name: uro

"slide" wrote:
Tom Sherman wrote:
slide wrote:
[....]
Well, my CF Rans isn't a recumbent nor a fully conventional bike so
it seems to share some attributes of both.[...]

What is a "Rans" (sic)?

Form of the verb Runs.

Not something I would want to be riding, then!

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Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
1999 RANS Wave to Tailwind conversion
2000 RANS Rocket

In article ,
Tom Sherman wrote:

Andrew Muzi wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
[...]
I'll have you know that I was the last man in my town whose dinner
jacket actually buttoned.

Andre Jute
with an acute accent on the e in Andre

It's ALT-130, André

Or ALT0233 for "é".

For gene, his name would be AndrALT0233

As Andre Jute implied, ALT0233 is restricted to
particular machines.

Who is Carl Friedrich Gauß?

When I want full function page lay out
I write LaTeX markup in seven bit ASCII source files.

--
Michael Press

nmp wrote:

Isn't being low (and aerodynamic) the whole point of a recumbent bike?
No.

Recumbents' main advantage is riding comfort.

For the same pedaling effort, some recumbents are generally agreed to be
faster than an upright road bike, but I'd guess that most recumbents are
slower. People still buy them for the comfort gains.

The fastest recumbents (on level ground) are the ones most-aero, and
they are most-reclined... however I suspect that there are blood
circulation issues that arise when the legs are elevated near or above
the level of the heart. It is the most-reclined recumbents that are said
to suffer the worst up hills,,, and we note that the problem of "numb
feet" also seems to be a much-more-common issue with recumbent riders
than upright bike riders, and more common with more-reclined recumbents
than with more-upright-seated recumbents.

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My own recumbent sits quite upright and is not particularly difficult up
hills, but then it is also not particularly fast on flat ground. It is
more like an RV than a race car.
I suspect I'd be faster on an upright.
I would not be as /comfortable/ on an upright, however.
And as it stands I'm no longer equipped to ride an upright; I threw out
my last pair of padded shorts and padded gloves quite some time ago, as
with the recumbent I no longer needed them.

When I had uprights I was riding 60-90 minutes over a regular circuit,
as fast as I reasonably could. When I got the first recumbent, I
switched to taking 2-3 hour wandering rides over every road there was.
The sore ass, numb hands and sore neck I got on 3-hour rides on the
upright bike didn't happen, and still don't.

On the recumbent, the question of how long to ride changed from "how
long do I want to sit on the bike?" to "how much time to I have to waste
today?", or alternately, "how much sunscreen did I bring?".

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It might be possible to combine the upright-seated recumbent with
aerodynamic aids (of the front fairing and body-sock kind) to combine
the best of both qualities, if you're willing to spend even more money
to look even dorkier than a plain recumbent rider.
~

Doug Cimper wrote:
[...]
It might be possible to combine the upright-seated recumbent with
aerodynamic aids (of the front fairing and body-sock kind) to combine
the best of both qualities, if you're willing to spend even more money
to look even dorkier than a plain recumbent rider.
~

Yeah, bodysocks are dorky:
http://www.ransbikes.com/Gallery/Archive/images/Sherman1.jpg.

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Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
LOCAL CACTUS EATS CYCLIST - datakoll