Originally posted by cycletourist
People ride recumbents because they can't get comfortable on a standard road bike..., even tho I will never own a bent...I'm glad they exist.
I'd think that unless you do own recumbent, it'd be presumptuous to generalize about those that do.
I ride a recumbent, but not because I "can't get comfortable on a standard road bike". I comfortably ride all three of my bikes - road, MTB and bent - to enjoy the unique benefits of each. Like cycletourist, "I'm glad they exist" - all three. The bent is not my perfect, everything bike; it has its advantages and disadvantages. Of the latter, ORBIT is the victim of pranks and jokes, perhaps because of the undeserved nerdy imagery bents evoke in some folks. The image of bents seem to suffer more than any other type of bike from many unfortunate myths, including the supposed reason people ride them. I'm often amused how other cyclists that don't ride bents seem to know so much about them.