Originally Posted by purplepeople

One does not need a road bike for speed training. That day, I happen to be riding my cargo bent with a small rack load. I stopped to get ice cream and was on my way when the micro-paceline blew by. My other bent is a tilting trike low racer. It's not completely finished yet as I still have to put a 72T ring on it, but already, I'm spinning out the 52 at about 35 kph (20" wheel). When the big ring is finished this 40-something with a gut will spend the occasional Sunday hunting pacelines on some of the back roads around here.

What I'm waiting for is Sam Whittingham to get on on an unfaired low-racer and go further in the hour than the current UCI record. That would finally put paid to the whether or not recumbents are faster. Even better would be for Barbara Buatois to do that too. Seems to me that only when a little girl spanks all these macho men that there will finally be silence.

Recumbent riders are not all looking to join the big tours. That up to the USCF and the UCI and if they want to allow recumbents, then I'm sure Rans or Bacchetta could field a team. Really, though, all we want is for the haters to stop hating. Of course, humans are predictable with the hate, but it sure is nice to dream of a world in which everyone just gets along.

ensen.