Are recumbants the legal street drug?
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Are recumbants the legal street drug?
My new Django had an essential part break on it. While I am waiting for the replacement part to arrive, I feel like I am literally going through withdrawal. When I ride my Django, I ride so much faster than on any wedgie I've ever owned that I can get a hard endorphin rush on just a routine ride across town.
The next time that an employer wants me to take a drug test, are they going to test for the use of recumbants? Will I have to be on the lookout for the Django Enforcement Agency?
The worst thing that this drug has done is that it's permanently altered my perceptions. I no longer want to ride on an ordinary bike. When I get on my regular hybrid or mountain bike, I feel so hyperconscious of the the lower back strain and neck strain and wrist strain that I had once taken for granted. And I'm acutely aware of how fighting against this strain prevents me from breaking through into the ENDORPHIN RUSH zone.
Is there any cure? Any treatment program? Or have I stumbled onto the street drug from which there is no cure?
The next time that an employer wants me to take a drug test, are they going to test for the use of recumbants? Will I have to be on the lookout for the Django Enforcement Agency?
The worst thing that this drug has done is that it's permanently altered my perceptions. I no longer want to ride on an ordinary bike. When I get on my regular hybrid or mountain bike, I feel so hyperconscious of the the lower back strain and neck strain and wrist strain that I had once taken for granted. And I'm acutely aware of how fighting against this strain prevents me from breaking through into the ENDORPHIN RUSH zone.
Is there any cure? Any treatment program? Or have I stumbled onto the street drug from which there is no cure?
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what part broke? And there is no cure... :-)
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Originally posted by bentbaggerlen
what part broke? And there is no cure... :-)
what part broke? And there is no cure... :-)
Riding a good recumbant is such a pleasure, it's amazing there aren't more recumbants on the roads. At 34, I'm having more fun with my Django then many 40-somethings have with their middle-life-crisis sports car.
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Ah yes I know the clips your talking about... I think I have some someplace. We have only sold two or three Burley bents at the shop. One of them I had to replace the Corbin seat with a RANS seat to make the customer happy, not diffacult at all. I have been asking Burley when we may see a tandem recumbent offered from them. It would only seem to be the next step as there one of the largest builders of tandems. They hyave also started building singles and the Alum tandems look great, and ride better.
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I started riding a V-Rex two weeks ago for medical reasons. I've got 230 miles on it so far and the one thing i notice is a total lack of pain spots. Yesterday, I did a 60 miler and got off the bike wondering where the pain was, while my wife was complaining about her lower back and galling in her private areas.
Therefore, a total lack of pain means to me that bent riders are normal and that wedgie riders are the ones with an addiction; addiction to pain, that is.
Therefore, a total lack of pain means to me that bent riders are normal and that wedgie riders are the ones with an addiction; addiction to pain, that is.
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Originally posted by ORBIT 1
Wasnt the old dead dingus was it?
Wasnt the old dead dingus was it?
I never knew bike riding could be so painless.