Retro Grouch 

Mrs. Grouch and I took a ride on the beautiful Madison County, Illinois trail system last Friday. I'm sure that we encountered more diamond frame bikes than recumbents, but it wasn't a lot more. Maybe 2:1 at most. I wish that I had kept track so that I'd be able to say for sure.

iambent

You must have just hit a day when a lot of bent riders decided to ride the MCT trails. I live .3 miles from the Schoolhouse trail and ride the MCT trails almost every morning. I have a bent, trike, and crank forward. I am usually on the bent or crank forward. I seldom see another bent or trike. Maybe one or two, but a lot of times none.

Maybe it is because I ride early morning and the bent riders prefer riding later in the day. I do see a lot of DF's in the early morning.

Retro Grouch 

Maybe we passed you Friday. Mrs. Grouch and I left the Park HQ on the Schoolhouse Trail at around 9:30. We were both riding hyper yellow Catrikes. We've even talked about moving to the Maryville area but most of our kids (and our grand kids) live near St Peters.

iambent

You did not see me. I start at 6am and finish at 8am. Sometimes I am out later on Saturday's and Sunday's if we stop for breakfast.

Being near the bike trail is one reason we moved to our current location. We are both avid bike riders and traffic was getting so bad on the roads we wanted to be near nice bike trails. We moved in 2002 right after they opened the Schoolhouse Trail.

I will be riding either an orange and white Bacchetta Bella with a 26" front wheel or a dark gray RANS Zenetik crank forward. I also have a red Catrike Road (not the suspended one), but ride it more when the weather is cooler. Ride the two wheelers mostly when it is hot since I am trying to get finished in a hurry before it heats up.

BlazingPedals

Apparently trikes aren't recumbents in your book? I suppose some, like Worksman and Schwinn, aren't.

iambent

Sure it's a recumbent, a recumbent trike. I just did not feel like typing out recumbent bike, recumbent trike, and crank forward. I always call a recumbent bike a bent, and a recumbent trike a trike. Funny that on BROL there is a recumbent section and a trike section. Maybe you need to correct Bryan.

I will try to type it all out next time. Don't want to get in trouble with the correctness police. Talk about an OT post. Here we are discussing the MCT trails and it gets turned into a topic about a trike not being a recumbent.

Jim Luke

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