Taking to the road in a modern, high-speed version of a 40-year-old dream.

  • _haha_oh_wow_M
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    5 months ago

    Downhill or flat land, you can probably get going pretty fast. Uphill, these things are dogshit.

    People who do ride recumbent trikes or velomobiles usually have a flag on a pole to help with visibility, but I would probably not take one of these things on my daily commute. I’ve only ever seen people ride them on bike trails and sidewalks, maybe a side street here and there.

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      5 months ago

      I did some reading and it seems like 30mph is a reasonable speed on flats. So similar to class 3 e-bikes.

      Is it legal to ride them on bike trails generally?

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        5 months ago

        Generally, I think you’d probably be fine but rules vary from state to state and even trail to trail so I don’t know that there’s a hard answer to that one.