Originally Posted by rydabent

john v

For my part no. There is room for several different types of bikes. Mountain biking on single tracks is no place for a recumbent. But then I still say for long touring rides with as much as 10 or 12 hours riding is no place for a DF bike.

Just because way back the the 30s some ignorant self serving frenchman declared that a recumbent "was not a bike" is no reason for logical people not to pick the right bike for the riding at hand. Again if riding a DF bike getting the adjustment right is necessary.