Re: The Problem with Marketing the Re***bent isThe Name

"Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:6e5lgeF5f9j9U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> erness.wild@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> I have been around re***bents for 25 years and I can tell you that
there 
>>> are
>>> very few young people who have any interest in this style of bicycle.
>>> Serious young cyclists want to be fast and re***bents are as slow as
>>> mol***** going up hills.
>>
>> Oh, slow on hills ? ? ?
>>
>> you better not watch this then . . . heh heh
>>
>> http://www.lightningbikes.com/lcd-climb.mpg
>
> Plus of course what goes up, must come down.  And going down hills my
> rather flabby touring 'bent with no pretensions at speed can cruise past
> most uprights freewheeling...

That is due to the slight aerodynamic advantage which re***bents enjoy
over 
uprights. But the main reason folks get re***bents is for the comfort and 
not for any other reasons.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota