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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Dan, here's one you can make yourself. Believe it or not, it's made from 2X4s. I built one in my garage. It's not too difficult if you have the right tools. You can get plans here: http://www.manytracks.com/Recumbent/jrobin.htm 8)
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08-02-2005, 03:04 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Patrick - That is sooo cool....its a rolling piece of scuplture man!
DanTien
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08-02-2005, 03:58 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
One word: SPLINTERS! 
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08-04-2005, 04:34 PM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Tadpole -
Saw a recumbent trike in my local bike shop. Name - TADPOLE
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Some other simpler options might be some gel filled riding gloves for the hands and the shoulders. A gel filled seat or seat cover for the back and bum. On my aluminum bike, there is seat stem shock absorber...
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Hi Mike,
I got some pretty nice gel gloves for my birthday - did a 30 mile and my hands are not numb  Also got a fat seat  the kind ya buy in the store...
My local shop wants $100 for a Rock Shox shock absorber in the seat stem so I'm mulling that over... DanTien
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08-05-2005, 03:17 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Dan,
We have a Pro Form SR30 and DH and I love it. We each do about 5 miles a day and find it is comfortable. We can watch TV or read while using it.
We decided to go the recumbent route last year because it is too hot to ride outside here for 5 months a year.
Momtwo
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08-05-2005, 03:45 PM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
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Dan,
We have a Pro Form SR30 and DH and I love it. We each do about 5 miles a day and find it is comfortable. We can watch TV or read while using it.
We decided to go the recumbent route last year because it is too hot to ride outside here for 5 months a year.
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Momtwo - thanks for your post. I'm looking for a recumbent to ride outside...saw alot on my ride today...interviewed as many as I could and they all LOVE them a LOT...There are short medium long and 3 wheeled. Kinda expensive, seem to be made by small American companies...one cost $3500! Of course No. 2 son and I have got myself convinced that paying up to $3000 for a guitar makes sense...So given enough time (no impulse buyer here!) I'll probably raise my price limit..right now its $700
DanTien
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08-05-2005, 03:46 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mid Hudson Valley
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
My 2 cents,
I see these recumb. bikers ride by my house daily. They do look cool and comfy. However I was surprised to see one appear at corner. The house at the corner has a 4 foot high hedgerow and when the bike comes around he's invisible until he clears the hedges. His buddy rides with a flag, small pennant actually, flying about 5 feet high. I can see him coming from a safe distance.
Lets be careful out there!
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08-05-2005, 03:57 PM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
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My 2 cents,
I see these recumb. bikers ride by my house daily. They do look cool and comfy. However I was surprised to see one appear at corner. The house at the corner has a 4 foot high hedgerow and when the bike comes around he's invisible until he clears the hedges. His buddy rides with a flag, small pennant actually, flying about 5 feet high. I can see him coming from a safe distance.
Lets be careful out there!
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Good point. Great! Next I'll get to choose which flag I want to fly...whoever asks me what I do all day in ER, doesn't realize that I'm often doing more meaningful stuff than I did in the office...
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08-06-2005, 10:03 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mid Hudson Valley
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
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choose which flag I want to fly...
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Another million dollar idea
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08-06-2005, 10:55 AM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Dan:
Next I'll get to choose which flag I want to fly
Tadpole:
I fly a windsock with bright tail ribbons. It is very visible but I don't do streets.
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08-06-2005, 10:57 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kansas City
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
I believe a pic of the 'mighty mighty dryer sheet flag' exists somewhere on the 'old forum'.
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08-07-2005, 08:03 AM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
Our flag, thanks to Big Money Jim
EDIT Sept 30 2005: Updated image link for new server -BMJ
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08-07-2005, 08:43 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
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Our flag, thanks to Big Money Jim
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For those of you relatively new to the forum, you will note the flag is made of stitched together dryer sheets...used multiple times, of course. 
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08-07-2005, 01:41 PM
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Re: Recumbent Bikes
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Our flag, thanks to Big Money Jim
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I give BMJ most of the credit, but I insist on being given face time
for coming up with the motto. I looked at that and said (to myself)
"It can't be anything else!"
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EDIT Sept 30 2005: Updated image link in quote for new server -BMJ
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10-22-2009, 09:55 AM
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Back in July 2005 Dantien and BigMoneyJim patented a Lazyboy vehicle
Today I saw this in the local paper - Minn man admits driving drunk in his Lazyboy - I'm not sure - sounds like a former member and ER from this board - Cutthroat?
July 31 2005
BigMoneyJim - I have this image now stuck in my head - I think this could work out on the trail also! ...there's a market for this somewhere. after all this is America...but that would be work, so we need to just hire a patent lawyer and license it too Lazy-boy.
This is how I see it - leather lazy-boy with all the extras (holders, massager, auxilliary motor, etc.) on a bent chassis - Sat rec & TV and well you get the picture.... Dantien
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