Twitchy steering fix for recumbents, velos etc

[neptronix]

Most people's first recumbent rides will be unpleasant because it takes a few days to adapt.
That's recumbent's real sales problem - the first impression.
You have to want to experience the aerodynamic advantage and adapt. Otherwise you won't like it, coming from an upright perspective. The learning curve is a lot longer than you expect. ( but in reality, i don't think it's that long )

AFAIK that bike isn't particularly fast, so the speed aspect... meh. The bike doesn't stir the soul, it's just comfortable.

Anyway i don't think your opinions will make anyone here enjoy recumbent bikes less

 

[PaPaSteve]

That's actually sad, but understandable.

I finished a restoration on an Easy Racers Gold Rush today. It was way too short for me, so I had two of my co-workers test ride it for me. They both succeeded, and they both decided it sucked. I wasn't surprised, even though I had been open to the idea that they'd like it.

"Oh but they'd get used to it in time". Yeah, I've built enough choppers and mutant bikes that I know you can get used to whatever abomination. That doesn't make it a non-abomination.

Oh, you poor tortured soul.
Standing on a small corner of a vast world screaming bias towards inanimate objects.
The only religion to believe in is an upright bike, repent sinners who ride anything else.
Hoping you find internal peace.

 

[marka-ee]

Most people's first recumbent rides will be unpleasant because it takes a few days to adapt.

I agree. For me, it took about a week of practicing before I became comfortable with its steering peculiarities, especially at slower speeds.So the problem is that you can't get an impression about what it's really like riding one of these until you've actually trained yourself on it. So naturally your first impressions are going to be negative like "this thing is unstable as hell" type of impressions.
There is zero way you could say the regular triangle bike is the fully evolved embodiment of a bicycle. It has problems with hand numbness and Ass numbness,etc. , compatibility with my old body. These things are not very fixable with any special technologies other than changing the seating position entirely and henceforth the recumbent. Horses for courses. I wouldn't take my recumbent on a mountain bike trail or anything with too many hairpin turns either. But for longer distance cruising, you can't beat it.

 

[neptronix]

Yeah. I would put the difficulty level a little bit below learning how to drive a stick shift, from the perspective of someone who only understands an automatic. You have to want it.

Stick shifts are unpopular in the USA for the same reason i think. ( better in a lot of ways but have a learning curve )

 

[Logic11]

Yeah. I would put the difficulty level a little bit below learning how to drive a stick shift, from the perspective of someone who only understands an automatic. You have to want it.

Stick shifts are unpopular in the USA for the same reason i think. ( better in a lot of ways but have a learning curve )

(I had the opposite experience where I 'clutched' the automatic's brakes and we all almost went through the windscreen!
'Put left foot under seat and leave it there!' fixed that.

Stick shift started for me at age 3 or 4 when I was physically heavy enough to depress the clutch on the smallest tractor on the farm.
Driving the truck had to wait a while longer till I could both see over the dashboard and reach the pedals at the same time.
I never really learned to drive (stick shift) so much as always just drove.
So weirdly; automatic shifting was MY learning curve! (and America can keep them! IMHO))