In alt.rec.bicycles.re***bent on 02 May 2008 01:44:09 GMT
jobst.brandt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<jobst.brandt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've seen nay re***bents with a small front wheel and cranks and
> pedals forward of that wheel. These units will endo easily while the
> rider remains firmly in the seat. The advantage is that the rider, if
> a bit agile, will land on his feet running. The bike does not fare as
> well as it overturns and scraped the road.
Will they?
I've been hard on the picks (front disk even!) on my Giro 20 going
downhill. The back (v-brake) skidded, so I let up, I did my damndest not
to lock the front, and didn't (riding a motorcycle has some advantages)
but the thing showed no sign of an endo I could feel.
Indeed, trying same when I first got the disks didn't get me anywhere.
Locking the front is hard to do when you have trained for years not
to, so maybe I wasn't trying hard enough. Never felt a massive weight
transfer forward, nothing like pulling a stoppie on a motorcycle (which
I have done more than once).
If they will "endo easily" then I must be dreaming...
So I have to ask... have you ridden one? Have you managed to endo it?
If so, how? What did it feel like, when did the weight transfer get so
over rather than forward (hard transfer on a bent feels qualitatively
different to hard transfer on an upright to me), and how fast did you have
to go, and how fast were you going when you managed to get it to go over?
Zebee
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