>>976546>What Battle Mountain machine would be good for general riding anyway?Welp, many people would say NONE of them, since the fastest ones now are all video bikes.
That is--to reduce the frontal area as much as possible, the rider is reclined so much that they cannot see out any windshield at all. So there isn't one. There is just a little video camera sticking up, and a TFT screen inside for the rider to see where they are going.
the pics are from the page below-
http://road.cc/content/news/94198-sebastien-bowier-sets-new-human-powered-vehicle-record-nevadaI asked on a recumbent forum when people would bet that the first videobikes would be used on public roads, and everybody said I was nuts....
*I* am not feeling adventurous enough to do it, but I think it's only a matter of time. The camera setups are certainly cheap enough.
Also We Note: that page above notes that Obree did set a new prone record on his goofy bike, but he was still way slower than the fastest recumbent bikes.
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