Actually here in Lincoln Ne, since I have been riding my recumbents, I seem to get more attention than I did when riding my mountain bike.

Now at least the head down roadies will wave or nod.

Bicycling magazine is a totally different matter. They did do on fairly long piece on recumbents in June of 2006 I think.
The guy that did the reporting even bought a used recumbent. He attended the ralley at Stevens Point.
But the thing is I think Bicycling is missing out on advertising from recumbent manufactures. Especially now that RCN stopped publishing. Too bad its Bicyclings loss.

The DF people remind me of car guys that cling to carbs, stick shifts and hand cranks. The ristance to bents is damaging the bicycle business as a whole. For several years I have seen older people that are out of shape decide to buy a bicycle. It was generally some form of a mountain bike. But look what happens, They ride it 5 or 10 times, they hurt, the bike hangs in the garage 5 years. The bike they bought for $750 gets sold at their garages sale for $40.
But if they had bought a recumbent they would have kept riding it!!!!

While I have never "smoked a roadie" even at 70 on a bent, I have kept them at bay and really made them work.

On one of our club rides, after we had stopped for lunch, we had an immediate ride up a long hill into a 30 mile an hour wind. I happened to roll out of the park I happened to be first, and none of the roadies half my age pased me. Made an old man feel pretty good!!
And on one of the bike paths here in Lincoln that is up hill, when I see a decked out roadie racer comming up from behind I sneak it up another gear and lean on the pedals a little harder. Love the look I get sometimes.

Also as Bluescat says, Bicycling is missing out on adv money by not including us. We are slowly gaining. I have read most of the Crazyguy on a bike cross country reports, and a very good percentage of riders are now on bents.

Oh and one more thing, dont discount trikes for xcountry rides. The ability to just stop and rest on a long mountain climb and start off again has to be a good thing.

Richard,

You have the wisdom of a sage.

Thank you TEACHER BILL.

I almost ripped the power cord on my laptop to run and show your comment to my wife!!!!!

Speaking of respect, right now there is a Wounded Warrior ride going on. Just a few minutes ago on Fox news (fri May 1) they showed a short piece on the ride. Right up front was a large number of recumbent trikes. Because of war wounds many were hand propeled, while you could see several others were missing arms or hands. These men and women have my profound respect!!!!!!!!