Originally Posted by
Doug5150
Ummm, you linked back to this same topic? Did he post it elsehwere?.......
Sorry - he's even confusing me. Yes, he posted this on both the General forum and the Recumbent forum.
Edit: Mods (?) moved it so it shows in both places.
In the promotionals for the Sherer trike, Sherer didn't seem to understand the difference between leverage and power. I see lever-powered bikes in the same vein as automatic shifting: a non-solution to fix a non-problem, and making things worse in the process. In the case of lever-drive, there is a massive dead spot as the legs come to a complete stop at the bottom of each stroke, and must re-accelerate back up to the top of the stroke. Plus, whatever (spring?) tension is used to return the lever to the top must be overcome when pushing down, before any real work is done.