Re: Rights vs. Responsibility

There are a lot of folks taking recumbent trikes and making them into  
home built velomobiles.

There also commercially built bodies for trikes.

David

On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:08 AM, MH wrote:

> WOW, 12 minutes!  It takes me 30 minutes without hills.
> And that's 4.6 miles to the first stop in town.
> Hell, I drive the fuel buggy to town in 10 minutes.
>
> Decided I wanted my favorite recumbent back so I can get comfortable.
> I'm not ready to get another trike.  But one of those fancy pine box
> Derby's on wheels I can crank along would be real nice.  Zipping into
> town and around the trails and roads to other towns and cities.
> And NO fuel costs other then a PB&J.  Sounds mighty good.
>
> -Mark Hoagy
>
>
> On 2/7/2011 7:19 AM, David Whitmon wrote:
>> Riding into town to check my P O Box is 4.8 miles. From the time I  
>> start
>> rolling out of my drive way, out of my subdivision, crossing two 4  
>> way stop
>> intersections and a 20 mph school zone before parking it at Post  
>> Office
>> Square, I've done that ride in just over 12 minutes. The fastest  
>> I've hit is
>> 44 mph in one not so big dip in the road. My slowest has been  
>> cresting a
>> hill at 17 mph.
>>
>> I've ridden over 8,000 miles, a mixture of fun and utilitarian  
>> riding in the
>> last 14 + months. I've averaged over 127 miles a week for the 63  
>> weeks I've
>> had it.
>>
>> This is my drug of choice.
>>
>> David
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