Where to start with recumbents?

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Tigerbiten
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Re: Where to start with recumbents?

Post by Tigerbiten »

If can be more fun than that in the rain ...... :D

I tend to wear a cagoule in the rain so no front zip, but they can be a bit boil in the bag.
If your not carefull you get a nice puddle collecting at your elbow.
If you forget to drain the puddle outwards before you signal then it drains inward ..... :(
The last one I had, I hack the sleeves off at the elbows, problem solved ...... :)

Fairing don't solve all problems in the rain.
At slow speed, you can collect a nice set of drops on it.
Pick up speed and hit a bump.
All the nice drops, fly into the air and straight back into your face ....... :lol:
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Cunobelin
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Re: Where to start with recumbents?

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Fairings can offer some winter protection.......


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Re: Where to start with recumbents?

Post by squeaker »

PDQ Mobile wrote:
Cunobelin wrote:Puddles at speed on a trike are one of the best experiences!

I understand the fine and honorable sentiment!
But it's not the puddles but the fact it feels so much more exposed to the rain itself.

That's where I was coming from too :!: My natural instinct in heavy rain is to tilt my head down and forward, not lie back and embrace the deluge :lol: Then there's seeing where I'm going at night with oncoming vehicles and a relatively low eye height and water on my glasses. (Yes, contacts would work, but...)
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