Recumbent Activities?
11-06-12 | 04:08 PM
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Recumbent Activities?
Now that we have recumbent bicycles, we have started looking for recumbent events/rallies and haven’t found many. We have found only 2 on the east coast: RBR hosts one in PA and the Mid West one in WI.
Is there a list of events someplace? Maybe we need an events sticky within the Recumbent Forum.
Is there a list of events someplace? Maybe we need an events sticky within the Recumbent Forum.
11-06-12 | 04:24 PM
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Check bentrideronine.com. There's also one in August in Washington. Bachetta also has a ride in Florida, as well as RANS in Kansas.
11-06-12 | 04:32 PM
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Have never ridden in a recumbent-specific event.
Our local bike club has an associated tandem club - if there were more recumbentistas around here maybe there would be a 'bent sub-club.
Our local bike club has an associated tandem club - if there were more recumbentistas around here maybe there would be a 'bent sub-club.
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11-07-12 | 09:46 AM
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Maybe in Loovul all three of us can get together someday.
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11-07-12 | 08:49 PM
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11-08-12 | 10:35 AM
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If you're willing to move to a more frigid part of the country, this group meets weekly and holds an annual Rally....https://home.roadrunner.com/~rare/
11-08-12 | 06:59 PM
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11-09-12 | 12:28 PM
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My club has a sub-club for the bents. No bent-specific activities, though -- just as bents are allowed in all club events, so too are uprights 
. Even though there are over 100 bents in the club, only the T-Th rides that I do ever have other bents on them. I guess all the other ones do different rides!
It's not 'bent-specific, but DALMAC that I do every year has a fairly high percentage of 'bents on the 5-day routes. With ~400 cyclists on each route, the roads are never crowded but you can almost always find someone to ride with.
. Even though there are over 100 bents in the club, only the T-Th rides that I do ever have other bents on them. I guess all the other ones do different rides!It's not 'bent-specific, but DALMAC that I do every year has a fairly high percentage of 'bents on the 5-day routes. With ~400 cyclists on each route, the roads are never crowded but you can almost always find someone to ride with.
11-09-12 | 04:14 PM
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How about one in the Smokey Mountains at Townsend, TN? That should be close enough to North Carolina for you.
https://www.recumbentriders.org/forum...ead.php?t=7298
https://www.recumbentriders.org/forum...ead.php?t=7298
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11-09-12 | 04:31 PM
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The only recumbent activity I've done so far is meeting recumbent riders for the Tour due Bronx. It was a blast. So make sure you guys aren't missing out good general bike activities looking for recumbent ones.
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11-09-12 | 06:01 PM
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True dat. A lot of these 'bent groups tend to organize their gatherings around existing rides. Something about forming a pack to go hunting.
11-09-12 | 11:22 PM
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11-11-12 | 10:35 PM
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Our annual races have also turned into a recumbent get-together: https://www.ohpv.org/HPC/index.html .
Since the OP is in Nawth Carolina, I wonder if the WHIRL group might have better contacts: https://www.recumbents.com/whirl/ . (I also wonder if WHIRL is still active.)
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