Recumbent bikes.
What I mean is this: Is it just as easy to ride these bikes as regular bikes, or is it harder? Do you have to start with training wheels or a grown-up running along beside you? Ice skating is totally different than roller skating, so maybe it's the same deal with these bikes.
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Interesting question. But the better question is why would you ride one of these contraptions in the first place? The dork factor associated with operating this bike is huge.
Well, I AM a dork. Plus I saw a guy riding this the other day and wondered how one can go uphill. He looked very comfy.
Aside from the dork factor (Tara you are not a dork) there appears (from the picture) to be an age limit. I believe you need to be retired to drive one of those.
All's I can say is, the colored flags are not helping out the DF (Dork Factor) at all.
I've seen these recumbent bikes while riding the MS 150. They could cruise on level ground but struggled mightily up the hills in Bastrop Park.
I'd like to make a motion to adopt a standard DF scale:
0 = look at me I'm so cool
1 = slightly dorky; e.g. having a healthy interest in math or science
2 = somewhat dorky, as in wearing socks with sandals
3 = pretty dorky, like Tara
4 = hopelessly dorky; e.g. reading books about vampires or Hobbitry
5 = Napoleon Dynamite, watch out
It is a modulus-5 scale. So if you are someone with a DF of 6 like the late Mr. Rogers or sir Isaac Asimov, for example, then it wraps around and you become cool again.
-K.
It just occured to me that someone who would say words like modulus is probably at least a 2.5 on the DF scale. D'ooh!
-K.
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