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The bicycle I most often ride is ...
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Mountain bike in the city, for my safety's sake. (Score:5, Insightful)
I chose to ride a mountain bike, not only for its off-track abilities, but also because it's so much safer on the road.
Potholes, which are a minor distraction for drivers, can translate into a weekend at the hospital for cyclists. You stand a much better chance of not falling due to a large pot hole if you're on a mountain bike than if you're on a city bike or road racing bike. I encourage everyone to ride a mountain bike if you plan on bike on a road with a lot of traffic and potholes!
Missing Options (Score:4, Insightful)
A motor Bike ( powered by petrol)
A Tandem
A stationary exercise bike
I borrow Cowboyneal's bike when I need to
Bicycling is impractical in the area I live
Poll obviously written by an upright rider (Score:5, Insightful)
We recumbent riders call uprights those painful bikes with a saddle you ram on your crotch until it hurts like a bitch.
Obviously, the poll misses the great variety of "oddball" bikes out there. Personally, I ride a Velomobile [velomobiel.nl] year round. Others ride trikes (delta or tadpole), front-wheel drive 'bents, lowracers, highracers, even streamliners. The choice of models is staggering.
The recumbent family of bikes is very diverse, the market is growing steadily as people discover that they don't have to hurt riding a bike, and the single "oddball" option in the poll is a bit dismissive of that particular world I reckon.
Here's the biggest forum about recumbents, if you'd like to know more: BentRider Online aka BROL.
After all those years (Score:5, Insightful)
For 30 years, I rode a race/touring style road bike. Then, on a whim, I bought a recumbent... I will never go back. No more chaffing on those uncomfortable seats.
On another note... GET OFF MY LAWN!
Re:Mountain bike in the city, for my safety's sake (Score:3, Insightful)
That's just it, with a road bike you need to pay more attention to the pot holes to skirt them while you should be paying more attention to the traffic. Skirt a pot hole to prevent bike damage and ride right into car you weren't paying attention to.
Re:Poll obviously written by an upright rider (Score:3, Insightful)
If your back is hurting after a few hours, you have the wrong size frame or seat/handlebar height. I've rode mine for most of a day with breaks only to eat or piss, and was feeling fine at the end. And I'm not some young kid who never gets sore, either.
Proper bike fitting is important... you can't just go to Walmart and pick up whatever bike for $50 if you actually want to enjoy riding it. I recommend testing out a number of different brands, models, sizes, etc of bikes and finding out which feels the most comfortable. Any bike shop around here will let you take out a bike for a test drive if you leave your ID with them. Some of them have offered to let me take the bike out for a full weekend if I wanted to test it for longer periods.
Long story short, you get a crap bike that hurts when you ride it, then you got the wrong bike.
Re:My bike.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Second Insult Option (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a tricycle from when I was a kid but you don't see me complaining.
Re:I ride... (Score:3, Insightful)
Vehicular homocide sure is funny!