Why Ride Recumbents 2 - Exercise
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2015
- Why do people ride recumbent bikes and trikes? One reason is that it an easy and fun way to get out and get exercise. In this video, recumbent riders talk about how and why they use their recumbent bikes and trikes for exercise.
This video is part of a series of videos sponsored by both Catrike and Easy Street Recumbents of Austin, Texas. We are grateful for their support.
A few words about making these videos:
The interviews are mostly culled from several hours of interview footage collected at the 2015 Heart of Texas Recumbent Rally. The unexpected weekend Texas freeze cancelled all of the riding events this year, so we all had to make do with visiting, eating, and drinking in Austin. Everyone I talked to said they had a great time! But this also left a lot of time for interviews, so it was fortunate that Phil Allen and I had come down on Thursday with his lighting, mikes, backgrounds, and camera equipment for the interview setup. My wife, Patti, tried to come down on Friday morning and the highways from Dallas to Austin were closed!
A word or few about Phil:
Phil Allen is a professional videographer and editor, with (among other awards and accolades) a Texas Emmy under his belt for the documentary "A Fair To Remember" about the history of the Texas State Fair.
Phil did all of the "studio" interviews you see in these videos. Ironically, there are also a few outdoor interviews of his that we are using from the 2010 "Texas Catrike Rally" in Dallas, the first rally organized by Jane Knight, that preceded the Austin-based Heart of Texas Recumbent Rallies. This is ironic because I has asked him to come by and film this group at the Sonic while we were stopped for lunch, since it was near his house, and he might be able to use it as a a documentary subject. 5 years later and here it is finally getting used. Phil also provided technical and creative guidance on assembling these videos. And Phil created the 30-second commercial intro used on each video, including the narration. (I just replaced his stock video clips with riders from my video archive.)
I have been filming Catrike and HOT Recumbent Rallies since about 2010, and started editing and posting them just for fun. I have also been collecting video footage at various riding events since 2010 (sometimes riding with 2 or 3 cameras going) and that archive has come in handy for this project. After the first HOT Rally video posted, Mike Librik (Easy Street Recumbents owner) asked me to keep doing it each year. Mike kept wanting more interview footage, and I finally got him to bring in professional help from Phil in 2015. While I have spent many weekends planning out these videos and editing them together from the hours of interviews and years of riding video archive, I could not have put this together as well without Phil's guidance and insights. Phil and I have known each other since our kids started in school together in 1999. This is the first video project we have been able to work on together and I am very happy with the results. I hope you are too.
Steve Erickson - Авто та транспорт
I had a short wheel sabe recumbent back in graduate school. Rode it to class every day. It was a blast, and fast!
Exercise with a view! You have so much fun on a recumbent you do not realize you are exercising!
I went out and found 15 miles of bike trails at a local park on my mountain bike. It was hard for some reason. My heart rate was very high most of the ride. Next day, butt hurt, pinky tip was numb due to pressure on the wrist and my neck hurt for 3 days from leaning over and old whiplash injury. I love the park trails though. I bought a nice used Trike off Craigslist and I've been hitting the trails every other day. Nothing is sore and it's enjoyable. The only thing is some leg muscle burn which just means I'm getting exercise. Some people like it and some chuckle bc it looks different. Who cares though. I recommend mostly flat areas, no big hills. Otherwise look into the electric assist trikes.
For many of us seniors, most recumbents sit too low. They are too hard to get down into and back up out of. We have balance and strength issues. But the Terra Trike Rover and TRIOT trikes ride higher and solve that problem quite well. If they can afford them, many seniors will be riding them. I will be test riding a TRIOT trike in March. Check them out.
I like the idea of having the tent or the shade that installed on recumbent. Can you please let me know where I can find it ?
what do you do during the winter, do you use the trike exerciser, which is the two rollers on the ground like i saw in another video by laid back cycle..
Where can I find the front glass finder that can installed on recumbent??
What prices can I expect to see for a recumbent in 2020?
Depends
Depends on what?
@@rodrodriguez460 On the type of recumbent
Oh, I thought it depended on the type of money used or the type of gas used in the inner tubes. Thanks for the details!
@@rodrodriguez460 Well you provided no detail beyond recumbent, pretty broad keyword.
How effective is it at training your core?
Probably not very, even on an upright bike where you need your core to support you, your core is not worked that much. Training your core makes you a better cyclist, the opposite isn't really true.
@@brauljo would be cool if they made a bike version of the "ab coaster"
@@laverdadbuscador Bikes with weird designs tend to not have great handling. But if that's not a problem, maybe rowing bikes could be what you're looking for.
weaving through traffic? no
I don't recommend "weaving" through traffic in or on any vehicle. But recumbent trikes "take the lane" very well, and we ride them regularly in traffic on local roads and downtown in major cities. They are more visible than DF bikes and generally get more respect and attention.
Steven H respect? Probably because you're a senior citizen
But trikes are slower than bikes.
Shhhhh! Don’t say that too loudly, or my trike, “Annie” might hear you. I don’t want her to know that she is not allowed to average 16.7 mph over a 46 mile ride. Or that she isn’t capable of going faster than 50 mph :)