Dressing for Cold Weather
My good friend Bill has been biking longer than he can remember, on a Swiss-made touring bike older than me. Whenever the weather gets dark, cold, wet, or otherwise inhospitable, he likes to smile and...
View ArticleDownhill Descents on a Trike
Having gotten the reader to the top of the hill in “Recumbent Hill Climbing”, I must now get him down. This won’t take long. With its low stance and excellent aerodynamics, a tadpole trike rolls down...
View ArticleStealing a Bike or Trike
[Editor's note: I dozed off at work to find this essay left on my desk. The author left his profile, but no other identifying information. The emphasis added is my own. See part 1, Securing a Bike or...
View ArticleTrike Cornering
Put any red-blooded newbie on a tadpole trike, age and sex irrespective, and the person will begin to snap off sharp turns. In truth, cornering such trikes is more fun that all but one or two other...
View ArticleAsk Mike
A new section to the Easy Street Recumbents weblog is the “Ask Mike” column. Have a technical, mechanical, or social question about recumbents? Just Ask Mike! We’ll post questions and answers...
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