Sometimes Manfred would like to rest on a couch and lay his legs high. Therefore, Santa Claus had brought a parcel from the Dutch carbon ligfietsen producer M5. In the parcel was a frame rack, with which Manfred built a couch :-) In the meantime Manfred pedaled some thousands kilometres recumbently. His experiences in riding the couch you find here: https://manfred-tinebor.fotki.com/journals/couch-surfing/ To get a little impression of riding the couch speedy, please watch the video recorded on a country road in Lower Saxony between Polle and Bad Pyrmont: https://manfred-tinebor.fotki.com/journals/manfreds-videos/entry/wqtfrbtwwtqqq/
My dear, dear Manfred and Lovely Olga--I'm from the U.S. originally and speak English. I can't begin to tell the two of you how much I enjoy reading your remarks when you kid each other. I so love the way you each express yourselves on whatever the subject may be. I especially love, however, the remarks regarding the riding couch. Had I not read a previous note or seen the YouTube movie, I would have thought both of you had been smoking some "waky tabky"--or something stronger. You both have made my evening! You're far better than anything I could possibly find on T-V. Thank you so much, you two very lovely people for brightening my day. And dearest Manfred, I'm so happy I looked at every photo of your marathon to St. Petersburg recently so I, at least, had a clue as to what you were speaking about. This adventure sounds just as exciting as the marathon; and who would have ever thought I would have gotten so excited over a bike race by someone I'd never met and/or heard of before.
Hi Manfred! "Ooops!" - sounds very optimistic. :-) Results are convincing. What are difficulties were in taming this couch? Is it possible to turn your head for rear vision? How can feel the backbone on a bad road (for example on the well-known roads of Russia)?
Dear Olga, I am pleased about your interest! The greatest difficulty with the couch is finding the balance at low speed. The bad stability was apparently caused by bad weight distribution. It was too much weight on the front wheel. So I have rebuilt the couch again something. I have mounted the seat more to back and shortened the bracket beam accordingly. Now the couch at low speed is a little more stable :-) The mirrors are required. I cannot turn the head so much to look back. Yesterday I cycled the first 200km-brevet recumbently. I was happy with the couch. It is really very comfortable :-) The feel of the couch on Russia's roads, I can report to you in a few weeks.
So Manfred has found his balance on his couch cycle! Well done! I have always wondered what a cyclist on a couch cycle can see of the road. Now I know!
Манфред, Вы уже сделали и испытали новый велосипед!!! Поздравляю, получился очень красивый ... но мне кажется, что на нем ездить труднее, чем на обычном велосипеде ...
Спасибо за интерес и поздравление! Yes, dear Hellen, the change from usual bicycles on the couch is difficult :-| On the one hand, the balance sense has been coached only for the upright posture. On the other hand, the motor activity of the body has been fixed on the stabilization actions of a normal bicycle. With the same motor actions the stabilization of the couch is not possible. I must learn the necessary stabilization movements anew. Till now it is difficult for me, riding slowly straight ahead without big steering movements! Fast riding already functions well :-)))
Да, понимаю ... есть еще одна трудность - следить за дорогой (ямы, кочки) ... я не представляю как это можно делать при практически горизонтальном положении ...
Most importantly, you have finished building (probably not fully). Perhaps the problem with start and stop? You'll get used. I have a lot of questions.
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