Do people without medical reasons find recumbents better?
The answer to this one is very close to home. I made the switch about seven years ago due to problems in my neck and resulting nerve damage. Doctors told me I was going to have to have major surgery. I stopped riding regular bikes and switched to recumbents 100% of the time and two things happened. • I started going on longer rides. • Within one year I was almost totally symptom free from the neck problems and all without surgery. My wife Barb, on the other hand, has no physical problems. She rides about three thousand miles a year and didn’t feel she needed or wanted a recumbent. Until, that is, we went on our first recumbent tandem ride on a Double Vision. The ride was a fairly long one, about eighty miles, with a tough head wind for the last thirty miles or so. She couldn’t believe biking could be that comfortable and she got her first recumbent two days later. We sold her carbon fiber road bike several months later and she has no desire to ever ride a conventional bike again. Incid
