Recumbents rule. I just biked 44 miles, and while I'm tired, I have no noticable joint pain of any kind. Next time, though, I need to remember sunblock. And the visor for my helmet. And some snacks.
Have always avoided recumbents - I like the visibility of an upright, and the thought of being in modern SUV heavy traffic on a recumbent gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.
Yeah, that made me a bit nervous too. The one I chose is pretty tall for that reason -- I'm eye to eye with people in normal cars. It's not a perfect solution, by any means. The steering is really twitchy compared to an upright, and it can be really awkward to handle in tight places. But anything over about 10 miles on an upright gets very painful for me, so I ended up avoiding doing much long distance riding at all. A recumbent seemed like the only way around that, and now that I'm used to it I'm not sure they're significantly more dangerous. I haven't noticed an obvious trend in failing to be able to make eye contact with drivers, anyway.
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