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My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
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"KERRY MONTGOMERY" wrote in message ink.net... snip I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56, and in fact can live with upright bicycles. Kerry Sniveling, dirty legged kid, 55 and 63 respectively. I tried riding a bent for a few minutes about 30 years ago and I just felt to uncomfortable trying to keep it balanced. I can appreciate that for some people with physical limitations, a bent is the only way that they can enjoy cycling. That's great for them. Chas. You would be surprised at how far the recumbent world has come in 30 years Chas. It is always a curiosity to me when people think I must be uncomfortable to be on a bent. Uncomfortable could be like you say,a balance problem. I also have upright bikes but for shame the tires are flat and no one will take the time or effort to pump them up. |
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If I can ride a bike for 4-6 hours I consider it comfortable. My
Lemond road bike and C;dale cross bike fit that bill fine. I have the bars only slightly below saddle, a Brooks seat and I;m fine. My MTB's are torture machines and cannot ride for more than an hour before neck shouler wrist pain start!! Edward Dolan wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Get a real bike and more people can fix it!!! Big Jim has a good point here, but he does not realize how much we recumbent cyclist insist on comfort, something that you can never get on an upright. When I ride an upright and it starts to cause me pain I get so freaking mad I could kill myself for being so stupid as to think an upright could ever be comfortable for more than half an hour. Screw all uprights all the way to hell and back! The g.d. things are nothing but torture racks. One thing is for sure, they were never designed for the human anatomy. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota Prisoner at War wrote: Okay, so I've been putting through my HP Velo SMGTe through all kinds of conditions around town for almost a year now. After all the potholes, rain, mud, grit, heat and cold I finally managed to really **** it up Sunday. A chainring got bent slightly, and eventually the chain itself broke and messed up some drivetrain components in the process! I only wonder how folks manage to take this model 'bent on them Third World tours if I'm having issues with it from simply riding around town! From the beginning the rear air shock suddenly stopped working. In another two weeks I managed to shred the top teflon tube somehow. Then the front disc brake rotor became permanently warped. Then the back ones. Did I mention the rear mudguard cracking in two? Sunday, about the whole drivetrain came undone: broken chain, a bent chainring, the idler spring clamp kaputt. Interestingly, the Thracian wheelset has held up just fine, AFAIK. Good God, but this is starting to be like dealing with your PC: "now what???" comes to mind more and more. And this seems to me recumbency's fatal flaw preventing it from wider adoptation: it's too ****ing complicated! And I can't believe how many of the nuts and bolts on my SMGTe do not seem to be off-the-shelf stuff you can get at a hardware store. Also, there should be a re-assembly instruction sheet for owners included with the bikes, since not all LBSes know or care about servicing 'bents. Recumbents are fun when they work, but mine is finally going to make a grease-monkey out of me! The HP Velo SMGTe is still the most comfortable 'bent around, but it requires a lot of attention, not like my other bikes which I just ride and take to the shop maybe once or twice a year. So far, I think I've spent $250 getting my 'bent serviced and refitted in one way or another. JFC!! I've now almost completely disassembled my 'bent, so as to clean out all the grit and grime and reinstall the chain, etc. Damn, this is going to be some education in bike mechanics! I'm really learning the hard way...on my own. I'm kind of looking forward to it, out of curiosity. Just wish I had the space to lay things down properly and leave them around. |
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"Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:6dSdnZrjUMDqhA_YnZ2dnUVZ_s6onZ2d@prairiewave. com... "* * Chas" wrote in message ... "KERRY MONTGOMERY" wrote in message ink.net... snip I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56, and in fact can live with upright bicycles. Kerry Sniveling, dirty legged kid, 55 and 63 respectively. I tried riding a bent for a few minutes about 30 years ago and I just felt to [too] uncomfortable trying to keep it balanced. I can appreciate that for some people with physical limitations, a bent is the only way that they can enjoy cycling. That's great for them. Chas. It has nothing to do with physical limitations. It has everything to do with comfort. What an idiot you are! Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota Uffda! Chill out dude and have some more lutefisk and lefse..... Go ride your 2 wheeled piece of lawn furniture in peace! Also, learn to follow a thread. My comment was a response to KERRY MONTGOMERY not YOU. Chas. |
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"* * Chas" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:6dSdnZrjUMDqhA_YnZ2dnUVZ_s6onZ2d@prairiewave. com... "* * Chas" wrote in message ... "KERRY MONTGOMERY" wrote in message ink.net... snip I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56, and in fact can live with upright bicycles. Kerry Sniveling, dirty legged kid, 55 and 63 respectively. I tried riding a bent for a few minutes about 30 years ago and I just felt to [too] uncomfortable trying to keep it balanced. I can appreciate that for some people with physical limitations, a bent is the only way that they can enjoy cycling. That's great for them. Chas. It has nothing to do with physical limitations. It has everything to do with comfort. What an idiot you are! Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota Uffda! Chill out dude and have some more lutefisk and lefse..... Go ride your 2 wheeled piece of lawn furniture in peace! Also, learn to follow a thread. My comment was a response to KERRY MONTGOMERY not YOU. Chas. I do suffer from nasal mucus (bad sinuses), but my legs are dirty only because I never chose to shave 'em, even during the racing years. The only recumbent I've spent much time on is the one on this web page (it's the one with large red spoke protectors). I found it a trifle heavy and slow compared to the uprights I usually ride, but exceptionally easy to balance ;-) Kerry |
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"KERRY MONTGOMERY" wrote in message ink.net... "* * Chas" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message news:6dSdnZrjUMDqhA_YnZ2dnUVZ_s6onZ2d@prairiewave. com... "* * Chas" wrote in message ... "KERRY MONTGOMERY" wrote in message ink.net... snip I've been around bikes for the past 40 years, around this world for 56, and in fact can live with upright bicycles. Kerry Sniveling, dirty legged kid, 55 and 63 respectively. I tried riding a bent for a few minutes about 30 years ago and I just felt to [too] uncomfortable trying to keep it balanced. I can appreciate that for some people with physical limitations, a bent is the only way that they can enjoy cycling. That's great for them. Chas. It has nothing to do with physical limitations. It has everything to do with comfort. What an idiot you are! Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota Uffda! Chill out dude and have some more lutefisk and lefse..... Go ride your 2 wheeled piece of lawn furniture in peace! Also, learn to follow a thread. My comment was a response to KERRY MONTGOMERY not YOU. Chas. I do suffer from nasal mucus (bad sinuses), but my legs are dirty only because I never chose to shave 'em, even during the racing years. The only recumbent I've spent much time on is the one on this web page (it's the one with large red spoke protectors). I found it a trifle heavy and slow compared to the uprights I usually ride, but exceptionally easy to balance ;-) Kerry The famous Irish racer, Patio Furniture..... ;-) Chas. |
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Prisoner at War wrote: Okay, so I've been putting through my HP Velo SMGTe through all kinds of conditions around town for almost a year now. After all the potholes, rain, mud, grit, heat and cold I finally managed to really **** it up Sunday. A chainring got bent slightly, and eventually the chain itself broke and messed up some drivetrain components in the process! I only wonder how folks manage to take this model 'bent on them Third World tours if I'm having issues with it from simply riding around town! From the beginning the rear air shock suddenly stopped working. In another two weeks I managed to shred the top teflon tube somehow. Then the front disc brake rotor became permanently warped. Then the back ones. Did I mention the rear mudguard cracking in two? Sunday, about the whole drivetrain came undone: broken chain, a bent chainring, the idler spring clamp kaputt. Interestingly, the Thracian wheelset has held up just fine, AFAIK. Gremlins. You've got gremlins on your ****. Something about bents attracts them. Good luck. |
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I don't care what you ride . If you don't take care of it .they all go to
Sh#t .Learn to fix it take better care of it .A buddies of mine use to complain about his Mt bike but never worked on it to keep it in shape it really doesn't take that much.Once he started to clean it and adjust thing as they were being use he had better luck when he went out riding . He could go for a ride and things didn't break or come out of adj. I think this is what the he was looking for . Don't wait till it breaks . Ride it and pay a little attion to what's going on and you can tell when thing are coming loose or need adjusted.Really?? I own 3 bikes and keep them in shape the last thing they do is let be down on a ride unless I crash and bend some thing . Don't get me wrong if you bought a cheep bike??? You get what you pay for !!! A cheap bike wont get you the mileage of a good bike?!?! MY 2 CENTS -- J/O TrailBlazer At Large!! |
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Edward Dolan wrote: When I ride an upright and it starts to cause me pain I get so freaking mad I could kill myself for being so stupid .... Damn, we were this close. (He says holding his finger and thumb only a mm. apart.) Ken |
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