Recumbent specific riding tips
Anyone like to share their tips for riding recumbents? Little tricks or techniques that work for you?
Here is mine. It is a tip for dismounting from a lowracer or maybe one of those low trikes. As anyone who owns a lowracer knows, they are hard to get out of gracefully. It's kind of a drag to pull up in one of thee sci-fi creations and then look like a bug on its back as you try to get off it. I call my trick the jack-in-the-box dismount: As you approach your stopping point unclip one foot and let it skim over the ground to gauge your speed. At about 5 mph or so unclip the other foot and put them both on the ground and start to stand up. Your forward momentum will propel you upright like a jack-in-the-box. Or maybe that vampire in that 1930's movie Nosturatu (sp) who just sort of levered upright from his coffin. Looks and feels cool