check out this cool car outside my store!

and you can't claim they're dorky. check this out!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Hpvpic.jpg/612px-Hpvpic.jpg

i know i know i'm rotten.

does seem like a great way for a cab to hit you at night though tbh.

but see that's why i get the smug vibe. like: ha, you sad people with your old-fashioned upright bikes. you have no idea how much better these bikes are aerodynamically and for your back, etc, etc.

yeah, but anyone on a recumbent is almost guaranteed to have crazy reflective and light equipment. goes with the territory.

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i've seen people riding right next to 18 wheelers!!! in philly! on insanely busy streets.

okay, i've changed my mind. these people are the bravest people on earth. demented, but brave.

I have ridden a recumbent. Sniff.

sometimes they have those 8 foot high flag things. ups the smugness factor.

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I don't know whether Ed's desire for a recumbent bike came before or after the fulfilled aspiration for OTT facial hair, or whether that just puts him in the demographic crosshairs.

these people are called "freds" BTW.

"a 'fred' is a cyclist who has a ton of cycling gear, especially of the utilitarian "uncool" kind. The gear and bike may be put together by kludgey solutions, like duct-taped flashlights to the handlebar. [1]. This type of fred is a bike geek who likes/needs lots of gear (even if it is modified stuff not intended for bikes) that a racer would never use, no matter what roadie cyclists or others think. Freds of this type can be well aware of their fredness, once they are aware of the concept, and often embrace it wholeheartedly." - Wikipedia

yeah, i mean, it definitely helps if you look like a mad scientist. it's the einstein thing.

i say just go all the way and get yourself a dandy horse.

http://images.photos.com/thw/thw14/PH/OLA/36915738.thw.jpg?0390000916

http://gorida.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/dandy-horse.jpg

need venn diagram of recumbent bike riders and owners of squat toilets.

kinda want one now

http://modcult.org/mc/image/path/712/thumb/dandy-horse.jpg

That lettering is on some UG Black Metal unreadability shit!

how do you own a squat toilet? like it's in your house?

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the dandy horse is ridiculous. JUST WALK

cyrus rides a skuut. kind of a modern dandy horse.

http://www.dutchbikeseattle.com/images/bikes/skuut_600.jpg

xxpost yeah there's ppl who like proselytize for it. I met a dude whose two social crusades were squat toilets and dvorak keyboard layout.

squat toilets are da bomb. seriously superior sanitation.

good for flexibility too

my late uncle was a user of dvorak and i never cease to be impressed by people who learn it and use it. also it's sometimes hilarious to watch them try typing on a qwerty keypad. xp to JL

i know people with compost toilets. those are eerie. it takes, um, a long time for things to fall...

is that like a hole in the ground?

yeah, pretty much. you would be surprised how strong the urge to flush is.

recumbents are to bicycles as linux is to operating systems, imo

recumbent bikers to linux users would be another good venn diagram

The only venn diagram where the circles line up perfectly.