leaving fat tire bikes out of the picture :D) “ Try riding your bike on the beach,” he once quipped in a talk. Super-duper efficiency is made possible mainly by riding on pavement and the odd unpaved, but hard, surface. Such massive efficiency is only due to the paved road. creatures perfectly crafted by evolution over millions of years.īut Professor Boal himself had a sudden realization about this. The apparently self-evident truth here is that the bicycle is more efficient than creatures in the natural world. The paved-cobble pave alongside bitumen-road was the precondition for bicycle development and popularization. Professor Ian Boal has studied the social context in which bicycle history has unfolded. Much ado has been made of “aero” frames in the last few years.ĭesigns are carefully studied and measured in air tunnel testing to continually reduce wind resistance. When you are riding a conventional diamond-frame upright, the number one resistance factor is your body pushing an envelope of air ahead. Recumbent road bikes are famously aerodynamic. The startled glance over the shoulder of the cyclist out front says it all. It’s not long before he cruises up behind a paceline of committed racers. Here’s the cheeky Milos Juriga eating up the kms with ease. You will not fail to notice how easy it can be to get up a head of steam on a recumbent. You see, the issue with speed is a little misunderstood. Ĭertainly NO MAJOR TRAUMA and two operations-one to insert the rod another to remove it a year later. The 1.5 meter vertical fall snaps the femur clean through right at the “femur neck”.īut if this was a recumbent bike, the leg comes down immediately and/or the hand goes out.Ĭheck Out Performer’s Recumbent Trike Tour of the Fuji Five Lakes in Japan clavicle once a few years ago) I can assure you.
That’s better than a broken leg (had a snapped. Putting your hand/arm in harms way like that will frequently cause a snapped clavicle (collarbone). No time to even put a hand out to absorb some impact or even control the impact in some way. I topple over to the left-the downward side of the slope.
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can’t free that foot in time to put it down. along with being clipped in the pedal on that side. Gravity takes hold, gently at first-it quickly turns violent.
turn slightly left, around behind the car to get away from the edge and the storm-water drain.īut now I’m too far to the left and the storm drain on that side. today’s the day though.Ī car right in front barely enough room to get past. right before a plunge down a seriously twisted stretch of road. The final descent begins with a gentle incline. I’ve done this ride 100s of times before. I’m riding an upright road bike through narrow roads on the back hills. Ok, besides celebrating the correction of historical bias, there are plenty of-let’s face it- more practical reasons for embracing recumbent bikes. Great footage of early recumbent road bikes being ridden in this video.įor further info, check out the Bike Route site and the Bike Quarterly companion site. A very well-preserved example of Mochet’s recumbent. This first enthusiastic embrace of recumbents came about through the work of Charles Mochet. Recumbent Bike future imagining – Never actually built, but it’s the thought that counts Future tandem trike imaginingĪs early as 1895, recumbent road bikes made an appearance at a Geneva Bicycle Show.Ī recumbent craze of sorts is recorded in the mid 1930s. However, the bike industry overall completely overlooks the existence of recumbent bikes from the getgo. Interesting attempting at revolutionizing racing bike frame design The “Sorena” – One of many attempts to get away from the twin diamond shape. In 10 years attending the Taipei Cycle Show, I have seen lots of effort go into trying to get beyond this design limitation. That’s why you have continual declarations that bicycle design has never overcome this design impasse. You might also like The Recumbent Trike Essential Guide
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Just about anyone with a professional interest in bikes will point to the development of the modern safety bike, popularized as the Rover in 1885 as the end of bike evolution. Well, the story of the modern form of the modern safety bike centers on the twin back-to-back diamond polygons. Then strictly speaking you won’t be doing that on a recumbent. It dates from the same time as the safety bike’s appearance in the 1890s. History – Enjoy the Benefits of the Best Form of the Bike Ever Invented Here are just 15 reasons you need to get on one at the earliest opportunity. It all goes double for a recumbent road bike. There are many sound reasons why you should be on a bike-any sort of bike.
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