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DuncanWatson
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Posted in thread: Catbike Musashi on 01/23/2010 at 10:04PM
No doubt that hi-racers fit in better with uprights. The safety thing is mostly fear chatter, subjective
not objective.I do think the Musashi will end up being considered fast due to its default geari...Posted in thread: Catbike Musashi on 01/23/2010 at 8:44PM
Greater lowracer availability in the US is a good thing; right now there's only Barcroft and a handful of
expensive European models. That's ironic, since there were no lowracers in Europe until Sean C...Posted in thread: Catbike Musashi on 01/22/2010 at 9:07PM
That is a very cool bike. A US made lowracer, great rear geometry, SRAM Rival, bar ends, open cockpit,
451/700c (451/622) wheels. Wow, it looks like a nice performance bike.Posted in thread: Recumbent Speeds on 01/01/2010 at 3:32PM
Some of the fast greenspeed trikes are running 16" wheels as well. Smaller wheels do accelerate faster. I
notice this effect on my Raptobike with 406 (20") drive wheel all the time. I was very surpris...Posted in thread: Recumbent Speeds on 12/27/2009 at 10:28AM
Duncan I'm glad to see you have brought up another issue we (DF riders) can tinkle on: Trikes are faster
off the line? Not even the staunchest proponent of recumbents has said that before in print. No...Posted in thread: Recumbent Speeds on 12/27/2009 at 10:25AM
Sorry, but you are to uptimistic.Recumbents did only beat the long distance UCi records, and as long as
Boardman helds his 56 k/h only fully faired recumbents hold the hour record and above.Wish i cou...Posted on Raptobike Lowracer "White Rabbit" in Cycle Registry on 12/26/2009
Posted in thread: Recumbent Speeds on 12/26/2009 at 7:51PM
DFs are fine and all that but they are static in design and have been for a long time. Recumbents, both
faired and unfaired have beaten all UCI legal records, they are very varied in design and it is ...
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