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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: 26 Mar 2025 18:44:31 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 3/25/2025 12:07 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> 
>> Two wheel recumbents can be trickier than standard diamond frames
>> because the center of grvity is lower. You can feel the difference
>> between sitting upright and being on the drops with a regular bike.
> Let me take a rare opportunity to agree with Catrike Rider. The lower 
> polar moment of inertia about the ground means recumbents are trickier 
> to balance. On the other hand, antique Ordinaries or Penny Farthings are 
> amazingly easy to balance even at near zero speed.
> 

And had a very short life span the Penny Farthings, as the safety bike
replaced them relatively quickly, saw a talk about them by a minor TV
celebrity (Jeremy Vine) at a church fair I went to last weekend, and they
are being made and ridden again!

Roger Merriman