How do you feel about your riding position?
This sounds like the start of an ad for one of those bike-fit companies who will do an excellent job in tweaking your various bits to make you more comfortable and more efficient on your bike. It seems, however, that you should be thinking more radically.
If you’ve always wanted to ride lying flat on your face, navigating by way of mirrored goggles, then you finally can thanks to the H-Zontal bike. As the website points out when we swim we go head first and all animals run head-first, neatly arguing against traditional recumbents but ignoring the fact that we actually evolved to walk upright where we don’t need weird goggles to see where we’re going.
I know what you’re all wondering, and luckily the website has the answer in the thorough FAQ section:
“Is the women breast compressed ?
No, the breast is not supported on the boobies but higher up on the clavicle and sternum.”
It seems to me that the bike might well be ridable, and maybe even fast, but you have to make a large number of compromises in order to get any benefit. I can’t see it catching on massively. Having said that, I suppose it does offer a quick transition for the professional rider from bike to massage table at the end of the ride, without ever leaving the machine.
In other new bike news the first of the London hire bikes are starting to arrive in the country, from their factory in Canada, ready for the launch in July. I’m looking forward to trying one out when they actually hit the streets.
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