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BTW - most of the kids in my neighborhood aren't the least bit impressed with my recumbent (it doesn't hop curbs and do other trick things). The older adults have really taken to it and have expressed interest in it. For the most part forget the kids and recumbents - instead, try focusing on those of us of more advanced age.[/QUOTE]

The kids here do like my EZ Sport AX.I also have people pull off the road and stop me to ask what it is and where to get one.We do have two bike shops here that carry the Sun recumbent and trikes.I do log over 125 miles a week most of the time year round as I live just south of Daytona Beach.I have notice more recumbents here than most places.I know down around Melbourne Fl.There is a lot more than here.Last weekend I saw two recumbent tandems the first I have seen on the road.They were along A!A beach side south of Melbourne.Also there is a bike shop down there somewhere that has recumbents in the window but don`t remember where but it was Sunday and they were closed.

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I went to the Philadelphia Bike Share Forum last night and learned of some interesting stats from cities that have bike share program in place..

When there are cyclist in traffic flow, bicycle accident rate tend to go down dramatically. when # of cyclist double in large cities like Paris or Lyon, bicycle accident rate went down 80%.

Most common reason for cummuters not riding their bicycles is that they are afraid of getting hit by a car, second reason: don't want to get bike stolen.