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09-23-05, 09:41 AM
On my ReBike ride across state last weekend I passed many regular bicycles and many highracer riders. These are some of the comments I heard
"You're gonna pass a lot of people with that thing and your big flag."
"I am going to crash if I try to keep up with you."
"Your hair is going to fall off from riding so fast."
"You're going to blow your snots on us when you pass ."
"No wonder you always go faster than the pack, you're cheating on that aero bike with the big flag."
"You can keep up with a motorcycle on that thing."
"Slow down, it's not a race when trying to go faster than a big flag."
"You look like a fast dork and my group looks like slow dorks."
"Slow down on that rusty fruit-cycle of yours."
"That ReBike is faster than my Aero."
"You beat us up all those hills AGAIN."
"No fair, you are too fast to draft, no one can keep up with that ReBike."
"You coast downhill way too fast to be street legal."
I guess I am darned if I do and darned if I don't. When I ride my $80 ReBike I pass everyone with expensive recumbents and regular bicycles. If there is a lesson to be learned it is do not spend a lot of money on a recumbent. An $80 used ReBike on ebay will be faster than most anything on the roads.
Mooky
"You're gonna pass a lot of people with that thing and your big flag."
"I am going to crash if I try to keep up with you."
"Your hair is going to fall off from riding so fast."
"You're going to blow your snots on us when you pass ."
"No wonder you always go faster than the pack, you're cheating on that aero bike with the big flag."
"You can keep up with a motorcycle on that thing."
"Slow down, it's not a race when trying to go faster than a big flag."
"You look like a fast dork and my group looks like slow dorks."
"Slow down on that rusty fruit-cycle of yours."
"That ReBike is faster than my Aero."
"You beat us up all those hills AGAIN."
"No fair, you are too fast to draft, no one can keep up with that ReBike."
"You coast downhill way too fast to be street legal."
I guess I am darned if I do and darned if I don't. When I ride my $80 ReBike I pass everyone with expensive recumbents and regular bicycles. If there is a lesson to be learned it is do not spend a lot of money on a recumbent. An $80 used ReBike on ebay will be faster than most anything on the roads.
Mooky