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Recumbent Bikes!!!
I'm big on biking places. I rode my bike everywhere all through college, including to parties and a couple times to the bar. I currently have two bikes, one is a all mountain rig with 6 inches of travel all around, and the other is my beater put together from spare parts. I was looking at getting a road bike since it's been unsually rainy and the trails are all muddied up, which can be awesome until the trail police catch you when the trails are closed. Then I started looking into recumbent bikes. These things are still bicycles but you sit in a reclined position and pedal with a couple different muscles compared to a normal bike. I thought they were interesting, but who would want to ride in one of those. Then I say that the world land speed record by a human powered vehicle was a recumbant doing 80mph. Researching this a little more it turns out that these things can be made very aerodynamic with the use of fairings. I just have this image in my head of people traveling down the highway doing 80 on a bike.
Here's some links:
http://www.ihpva.org/FAQ/
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/PracticalCycling/FancyBikes.htm
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