Greetings,
This is my introduction post. I am Mike Ross living in central North Carolina (Clayton). I get paid to (re)design aftermarket auto parts - mostly sensors for engines. You might buy our stuff at Advance Auto, NAPA, CarQuest or similar. I don't get paid to ride bikes and bents, garden, sing, dance, meditate, or to consider how I wish I would just get a forge and learn blacksmithing.
I am a modernist for this list. I apologize about that. I have various physical reasons that made me start riding recumbents. And they are interesting gizmos, you have to admit. Where uprights are all tradition an d subtlety, recumbents are wild and crazy, and very comfortable.
But, that said, there is something about riding uprights that is undeniably enjoyable. Maybe it is partly muscle memory, but some of it like just operating in an upright mode just works. Anyway my body complains if I rid e anything for too many miles and to counter that I have a variety of cycles.
My rides:
The Greenspeed is a trike. I can (well could is more accurate) ride a double metric and not care to get out of the seat at the end - it is so comfortable - it is also heavy and thus not fast. The BikeE was my first bent and it has become a trainer. They were a neat cheap way to get first adopters to try a bent. It is really not a bad design I rode a 300K on it in 17 hours once and that was a good day. When I get tired it is squirrely handling and that is a drag at night on climbs. The Linear is a freebie. It is not squirrely and I really like it, it has about as much history as a bent can have since they were designed in the '80s, but I can't get comfortable on the seat for more than 30 miles. I hope I can figure that out someday.
I promise not to bring up the bents ever again here.
The Schwinn is just barely under the age cutoff for this list and it is why I joined. I am not a collector, but I like bringing back older but nice machines. The bike called to the crow in me because it is the chrome plate d model. I need some help with that. I will put my questions in other posts with a pertinent subject line.
Thanks for having me.
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Michael Ross
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Cycling in Central North Carolina
Schwinn Voyageur 11.8
Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT