Originally Posted by Mars
Thanks for the input everybody. I'm a little unclear though: Do you think riding lowracers in traffic is a bad idea Magilla?
Based in part upon everybody's wisdom here, I am veering away from the pure lowracers and am now looking at the Bachetta Corsa, Challenge Hurricane, and HP Velotechnik Speed Machine. Anyone have opinions or experience with these bikes?
As my good friend Rich Pinto always says everyone has to determine there own level of risk on a bicycle.
And that is how I will leave it with you Mars. Some folks use one speed fixed gear DF bikes designed for track racing with out brakes in urban environments. These guys have super bike handling skills as you would Imagine while riding without brakes. There are quite a few lowracer pioneers in Chicago who ride lowracers in dense urban traffic with no problems. Again these folks have tremendous bike handling skills and many years of experience on all types of 'bents in urban traffic.
So again its all about risk and I feel that commuting in dense traffic is best done on a DF single speed bike with brakes. Can't get any simpler than that for a short commute of 10 miles or less.
Would I ride a lowracer in dense urban traffic? Yup if I had the money for a NoCom if for no other reason than to just blow peoples minds with a bike like that one after I was totally used to it.
I have great bike handling skills on any type of bike that I expect most on this forum lack so other options make more sense like Bacchetta's line of bikes or Easyracers line of bikes do.
So my answer is that it depends......
Magilla