LowStandards
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Bigging Up The Sum Sum Man Since '99
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This week I have mostly been ordering... A KMX Tornado tadpole trike! Its basically the bmx/mountain bike of the trike world, built to take some abuse and handle some single track etc... It best be good, it cost me £600, but then at the same time, it looks great and has mag wheels, so if it rides like curse word, i'll still have a great ornament...
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some recumbents can be a bit weird.
these are cool.
I'm building a long wheel base recumbent. Just need to find material to make the seat.
It takes a while to get your Bent legs. your legs will feel heavy and strange the first few times you ride it a distance
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Last Edit: Jun 19, 2009 9:15:05 GMT by alecw35
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That looks fun..... Not sure about singletrack though......its about 2ft too wide Post some pics up when you get it though, would be a laugh seeing that in the local woods !!
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markbognor
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Recumbentmarkbognor
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Get a big tall flag if you are going anywhere near the road!
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LowStandards
Club Retro Rides Member
Bigging Up The Sum Sum Man Since '99
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Jun 19, 2009 10:29:45 GMT
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Seems to handle the trails and jumps alright in this vid??? clickyI wanted the Cobra model as it has lots of gears, but its like £400 more. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to fab up a front derailler mount and stick a few extra chain rings up front...
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Recumbentretrowagen1234
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Jun 19, 2009 10:58:45 GMT
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that looks bloody good fun... id hate coming up to a jump and not seeing the otherside tho... id bottle it everytime lol and yeah on the road please get a whip flag. the amount of times ive seen people swerve around recumbants cos they just didnt see em and that is alot thinner than i thought too.. when you mentioned singletrack i was thinking no fecking way. but its no wider than an mtb inc the handlebar length of a bike.
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MR TIKI
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TIKI,style from a different angle!
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Jun 19, 2009 11:55:08 GMT
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They look like they're a blast! ;D
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Boldly driving faster than a tin worm can wiggle.
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Soooooooo you gonna pimp it up too.
I like the weirdness of recumbents, not sure I want to ride one though.
Have fun when it lands your side.
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luckygti
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I need to try harder!
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That looks awesome! Mad video as well. Think I might have a look at something like this.
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Jun 21, 2009 10:22:27 GMT
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I can relate to the "great ornament" bit ;D here's mine , ornament that is , bought it and never used it it is a Velotechnik Scropion with extras all I did was re engineer a different seat to suit my backside this is the super duper seat it came with , but it did not quite work for me I even bought a new flag for it
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Jun 21, 2009 11:30:47 GMT
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i have just ridden one of the kmx recumbants and they are quite comfortable. good choice.
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Jun 21, 2009 23:18:29 GMT
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I had a major obession with these in the 80s and bought one. It was completely curse word as a thing to ride on the road, it didn't fit through a standard door and the width of it made traffic jams apply to me. It was also so low as to be dangerous and someone laughed at me in Kingston town centre for riding it.
They look great with egg-shaped fibreglass fairings!
Charlie
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Are these things as tiring on the legs as they look?, on a normal bike a lot of the pedalling force comes from your weight, on these things it's all coming from the muscles.
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On a normal bike none of the energy comes from your weight because you are sitting down. You have to pedal using leg muscles. On a recumbent you have the added strength of your back being supported so you can push with a stronger force. For some reason they're faster on the flat but slower up hills. I always facied one with a fairing. This one did 86mph: Charlie
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RecumbentDeleted
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Jun 23, 2009 15:45:27 GMT
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I've ridden one like in the o/p on an oval dirt track. It was great because you had so much leg strength you could powerslide it if you kept pedalling
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Recumbentjettadeluxe
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Jun 23, 2009 15:51:45 GMT
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Are these things as tiring on the legs as they look?, on a normal bike a lot of the pedalling force comes from your weight, on these things it's all coming from the muscles. As stated above, recumbant bikes are more efficient, as when pedalling on a normal bike, you are not using the full effort of your leg muscles, as this would lift you off the saddle (Newton's Law, equal and opposite forces etc). With a recumbant, the seat prevents your body from moving backwards when you push forwards with your legs, so more energy is transferred to the pedals.
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Jun 23, 2009 19:53:21 GMT
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On a normal bike none of the energy comes from your weight because you are sitting down. You have to pedal using leg muscles. On a recumbent you have the added strength of your back being supported so you can push with a stronger force. For some reason they're faster on the flat but slower up hills. I always facied one with a fairing. This one did 86mph: Charlie I was more on about the off road stuff, when no one would sit down on a normal bike. Even when sitting down a lot of the pedalling force does come from your weight, as you lift the back foot up the front goes down unless you purposely hold it up. Unless you ahve your strapped to your saddle if you pedal hard you will nearly lose contact with the saddle, less so on proper road bikes where you're leaning further forward.
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Recumbentjettadeluxe
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Jun 25, 2009 10:11:45 GMT
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On a normal bike none of the energy comes from your weight because you are sitting down. You have to pedal using leg muscles. On a recumbent you have the added strength of your back being supported so you can push with a stronger force. For some reason they're faster on the flat but slower up hills. I always facied one with a fairing. This one did 86mph: Charlie I was more on about the off road stuff, when no one would sit down on a normal bike. Even when sitting down a lot of the pedalling force does come from your weight, as you lift the back foot up the front goes down unless you purposely hold it up. Unless you ahve your strapped to your saddle if you pedal hard you will nearly lose contact with the saddle, less so on proper road bikes where you're leaning further forward. Your leg muscles are stronger that the force of your weight, otherwise you'd never be able to stand up. Recumbant bicycles are more efficient at transferring the force from your lef muscles to the pedal than when you are standing on them. When you are on your pedals pushing down, 50% of the force is trying to push you upwards, away from the pedals. The seat in the recumbant stops most of the 50% energy trying to push you BACK.
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Last Edit: Jun 25, 2009 10:12:39 GMT by jettadeluxe
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Jun 25, 2009 17:40:50 GMT
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I was more on about the off road stuff, when no one would sit down on a normal bike. Even when sitting down a lot of the pedalling force does come from your weight, as you lift the back foot up the front goes down unless you purposely hold it up. Unless you ahve your strapped to your saddle if you pedal hard you will nearly lose contact with the saddle, less so on proper road bikes where you're leaning further forward. Your leg muscles are stronger that the force of your weight, otherwise you'd never be able to stand up. Recumbant bicycles are more efficient at transferring the force from your lef muscles to the pedal than when you are standing on them. When you are on your pedals pushing down, 50% of the force is trying to push you upwards, away from the pedals. The seat in the recumbant stops most of the 50% energy trying to push you BACK. That's what I was saying, as you're being pushed up your weight is also pushing the pedal down. In a recumbent none of your weight is providing pedalling power, it's all coming from your leg muscles which also have to hold your legs up.
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Recumbentjettadeluxe
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Jun 26, 2009 13:52:34 GMT
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Your leg muscles are stronger that the force of your weight, otherwise you'd never be able to stand up. Recumbant bicycles are more efficient at transferring the force from your lef muscles to the pedal than when you are standing on them. When you are on your pedals pushing down, 50% of the force is trying to push you upwards, away from the pedals. The seat in the recumbant stops most of the 50% energy trying to push you BACK. That's what I was saying, as you're being pushed up your weight is also pushing the pedal down. In a recumbent none of your weight is providing pedalling power, it's all coming from your leg muscles which also have to hold your legs up. Um, I can't explain physics as well as a science teacher but; Your leg muscles exert more force than your weight. A recumbant isolates the force of your leg muscles and transfers it to the pedals. The force of your weight on the pedals is less than that which can be applied with your leg muscles.
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