Dear Hellen, 42 - 44 cm is the normal wide of road bike handlebars. The handlebars of the couch must be wider, because my legs have to be convenient under the handlebars between the grips! :-)
“Arms, hands, bars, knees Spinning blur, fast trees Heart bangs, tires sing Wind roars, gears ching Climbing grade, sweat drips Heavy legs, a couple sips Breathing deeper, suck the air Crest a hill, pedals tear Feel no pain, feel no burn Still time to go another turn Mind is clear, thighs are tight Rolling speed, wheeled flight Cycling!" (Zeeko Jr.)
The tower is in the area of my house. It fulfils no commercial purpose. It is used only by wanderers and by a mad cyclist as an lookout :-)) From the top of the tower you have a magnificent panorama.
Yes, the couchbike is really amusing. I can well imagine, that it is a great fun for two, to cycle with the couch in the nature and to enjoy rest at an idyllic place ;-))
And I imagine such couchbike on our roads (for example, Moscow-Yaroslavl:)))) where practically anywhere there is no reserve strip, and in some places it is necessary to go on sand:))), and around - huge camions and cars:)))...
Dear Hellen, you're absolutely right. With the wide part, I would also not drive on any German street. If you will ride, nevertheless, the bicycle marathon Moscow-Yaroslavl, please use another pedal driven vehicle! :-)) Therefore, my couch is narrow with a single seat. I'm trying to build my couch so, that it will be comfortable but suitable for bike marathons on Russia's roads.
Excellent gift from the GrandFather Frost!!! Now in the summer You will go by an unusual bicycle, at which pedals above a saddle!!! Yes??? Manfred - the super-biker and the super-master!!!
It seems to me, to go by such bicycle will be difficultly enough... but it will be not comfortable... Your actions are not similar to actions of the old man ... :)))
Dear Hellen, thanks for your comment. But it is not a joke: The reason for the couch is to increase the comforts!
The old man has a problem with the intervertebral discs of the cervical spine. After riding 600-800 km with a racing bike, the old man always gets a stiff neck. Then he is not able to rise the head and to look ahead. To ride further and to finish the marathon, the old man has to fit the handlebars very highly. Look here:
After the long ride it needs some weeks, until the neck of the old man is normal again. In contrast to the racing bike, the neck position on the couch will be relaxed. To get best comfort, the old man has mounted a neck rest at the couch :-)))
I have understood that it is not a joke ... It will be interesting to look when such new bicycle will be made by You... Yes... 600-800 km on a bicycle at great speed and practically without interruption... For me it is reachless ... Now I rejoice to trips a maximum on 30 km for a day ... and that only at weekend and when weather allows :)))))...
Yes, it is exact - all reachable if there is a wish, a specific goal and actions... and all it give joie de vivre :) But now ... :) ... I am rather afraid even of tours with about 50 km a day ... :))))
Hello dear Hellen, I have found a nice training purpose for you! You must get to become "only" fit for your first marathon until September! This year Jarolslavl celebrates its 1000-year-old existence. To the celebration a bicycle marathon "Москва-Ярославль 300" will be organized in September. Isn’t it a good target for you? :-)))
Hello, Manfred, Many thanks for the variant of training found for me!
I have read about marathons (Москва-Ярославль) on the Internet and have understood that it too high training purpose for me now..
I most likely accept a bicycle tourism when I go not on highway (dusty and polluted) and not for the speed and distance (300 km for once - for me it very and very much - I "will lose" knees), and among the nature and in that rate in which I can now.
I not the sportswoman :))), and the usual fan of active recreation and a healthy way of life (at that level of which I am capable and of which I am joyful).
Probably, I will go at bicycle tour where in day pass 20-30-40 km... But even not 100... Also combine bicycle traffic with the excursion program... Or pedestrian tour... On mountains and woods... And too with excursions... I have already found something on this theme, but definitively was not defined...
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