blazing pedals +1

The bottom line for bents come in several parts. 1) comfort is a given 2) the fact that "on board energy" is mainly fed to the legs and not the upper body 3) aerodynamics is a variable given depending on bent design--and it is true that it is mainly important above 15mph, but dont forget if you are riding even just 10mph into a 15mph wind now we are talking 25mph relative wind speed so bent aero is important 4) riding experience many besides myself noticed on our first bent rides that we were less tired when we rode the same routes we had been riding on our DFs 5) and lastly since 99%+ bent riders had ridden thousands of miles on DFs before we got bent we are the expierenced judges of both types-----we are not just repeating old wives tails and hearsay about bents but have never ridden one