SRAM makes a cassette with a low gear of 42T! Otherwise, Shimano makes 36 and you can combine it with a low low granny in the front like maybe 22T? Do you think that would get you up the hill?
The only advantage I see to a recumbent is less wind resistance. I am 6'7" so if you are tall I can imagine you know what I mean. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Derek Simmons < retiredinsancleme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh yeah: recumbent only. First the knees went, then the muscles that > allowed me to do what my brain demanded: stand on the pedals.[?] > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm not particularly tall, and my erstwhile refurbished Ken Rogers >> British racing trike was only a 58, but (1) damn it was fun while it lasted >> and (2) why would you want a trike for mountains? Or are you thinking of a >> recumbent trike? >> >> At any rate, IMO, the only trike worth considering, and that only for its >> purely contrary and weird value, is the traditional BRT. And the principal >> benefit of such a trike is cornering -- you can't lean it (well, some >> people say they can, on the inside rear wheel, but I couldn't), and while >> the wheels have to stay flat on the ground, your body has to lean waaaaaay >> over into the turn, and this is what is great fun. >> >> 3 other benefits: >> >> 1. It is the best grocery carrier, if you get a rear platform rack and a >> big, big bag. Why? Because it doesn't fall over when you load it, and, (b), >> a heavy rear load doesn't materially affect the handling. >> >> 2. You can come to a dead stop on a hill without unclipping or falling >> over. This has a certain cool factor, especially if (as I did) you shifted >> to the granny ring with your right foot. >> >> 3. It's great fun to blast through an ice patch without a second, or at >> least a 3d, thought. You can spin, but you won't fall. >> >> Lastly, the vexing question: what-wheel-drive? BRTs come from B and have >> left hand drive. In B, where they ride on the left, this means that the >> driving wheel is continually pushing the machine up the crown of the road, >> mitigating the tendency of the sloping crown to drive the machine into the >> ditch. When riding on the right, the same wheel tends to drive it into said >> ditch, a problem that IME was more theoretical than real -- tho' perhaps >> here in high desert NM our roads are only modestly crowned. I do recall, on >> certain roads, pedaling hard with my body canted hard to the left to keep >> myself in a straight line. >> >> Someone in B makes custom 2-wheel drive axles utilizing a Shimano >> cassette hub (not a dual sprocket drive, nor a differential -- a tertium >> quid of some sort) so that you get power to both wheels and can use modern >> cassettes. I hear they cost a $grand, though. >> >> The BRT will never replace the bicycle, but for just plain weird fun it >> is, well, just plain weird fun. >> >> Patrick Moore, nostalgically recalling taking a left hand corner at >> speed, body canted leftward down below saddle height, and hearing a passing >> roadie shout, "Cool!". >> >> That's not me in the pic, btw. >> >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Derek Simmons < >> retiredinsancleme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm tall and I love my 68 Redwood. But I'm also old and have recently >>> moved to the mountains. So I'm seriously thinking about adding a trike to >>> my inventory. >>> Any of you tall Riv riders also ride a trike? If so, which one? And if >>> you didn't ride that particular trike, which one would you really really >>> like to have and why? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Derek Simmons >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >> >> ************************************* >> * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to >> never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from >> it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* >> * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to >> look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind >> it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into >> somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your >> daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is >> all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was >> any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, >> because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where >> in your time and your body can they be?* >> * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. >> "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where >> Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of >> you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > > Derek Simmons > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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