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Bikes, trikes, tandems, whathaveyou. If it's a vehicle you can operate with human-power, this is the room.
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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Cycles & Human-Powered Vehicles, Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed
After ankle and knee pain for the last couple years, I have been making myself ride one gear down from where I would have before, and it seems to be working. (I also learned I can't bike in soft-soled shoes. Oh, well.)
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I'm glad you found something that worked. While I wouldn't bike in really soft shoes, I do bike in athletic shoes. I no longer bike in hard leather-soled shoes after an accident where my dancing boots slipped off the pedal, landing my coccyx right on the end of the bike seat. I was in excruciating pain for weeks. Couldn't sit. - Spidra Webster - - (Edit | Remove)
owwwwwwwww. mostly I bike in Keen sandals, so not too far from athletic shoes. I had some thin-flexible-soled walking shoes, and for whatever reason those just killed my ankles riding uphill. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - - (Edit | Remove)
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Spidra Webster to Cycles & Human-Powered Vehicles, Spidra Webster's feed
The League of American Bicyclists had a #bikechat on Twitter today. The guest was a bike law firm. Because so many people don't consider bicycles legitimate transportation, bike law varies from state to county to city, making much more of a legal minefield for cycle tourers than people taking a car road trip. Here are some good guides to US legal differences: http://bikeleague.org/Sta...
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Spidra Webster to Cycles & Human-Powered Vehicles
Welcome! Tell us about your HPV/s! I own a Bridgestone with a Xtracycle attachment, a recumbent Haluzak Horizon, a folding recumbent Bike SatRday Mark 1 and a Brompton T-5 folding bike. I need to sell at least one of these....if I could find one bike that does it all, I'd just own one.
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I have a custom mixte-ish touring bike I call Jacaranda, made by a builder called Violet Crown Cycles. Belt drive, disc brakes, butterfly/trekking bars, front basket and rear rack, and general awesomeness. My next bike will probably be a 'bent! - Ondatra iSkoolicus - - (Edit | Remove)
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I was hunting for somebody, ANYBODY, who makes bikes with mixte frames. (I ride my bike to work and like to wear long dresses. Diamond frames not an option.) The Soma Buena Vista readymade came close to what I want, but at the time there wasn't a disc-compatible version, and I was sick of rim brakes trying to eat my skirts. I think I ran into VCC via an article on the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - - (Edit | Remove)
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