Hey Dan, welcome to the group. Are you going to ride the bent to Lufkin or drive it there? I have relitives in Lufkin and spent many years there on weekends while growing up. My uncle and several cousins retired from Lufkin Foundries. My family had a home near the lake before they passed away.

Quote from bigride on Mar 31^st, 2009, 5:34am:

 
Welcome to the forum, Lee. Keep us updated on the details of your ride as the time for it gets closer. Some of us may want to do some miles with you. I know your destination better than I'd like to remember. I am a veteran myself, and have had everything from lung surgery to chemotherapy at that Dallas VA Medical Center.

Last week I bought Jman’s Mach2 recumbent bike. Yesterday, I took it out for the first time. The bike shifted great and once I made some intial adjustments to the seating position was very smooth and comfortable for me. I had moved from a recumbent , tadpole trike that was a blast to ride and no worries about balance. However, about 2 years ago I wrecked a Kickbike (a bigboy scooter that is quite fast) and completed dislocated my knee.  That kept me off everything for about a year. During that time I guess I read too much and became concerned about potential leg suck on a trike  plus, I really had no way to transport the trike to good places to ride so I sold it.  I spotted a Burley Canto on Craigslist bought it and rode it a bit but with the crank so high up I never felt safe with the balance so I sold it and thought I might be able to find a used Trike at a good price. I am not a patient person and knowing I need to find a way to exercise outside I picked up the Mach 2. I still have some balance issues but not in a scary way like I did with my feet up so high on the Burley. I did go down on the Mach 2 once already, making a too slow U-turn. Slightly abraded knee but no damage to the bike.  This time I am going to give it a real try.

Quote from scooterdaddy52 on Apr 1^st, 2009, 11:54am:

 
I understand just were you are coming from on the trike issue.  I love my trike and use it on my trainer all the time and some outdoors.  I really like my short wheel base but it can be scary at night if an emergency turn is necessary due to possible heal strike.  I am so used to LWB that turning it on a dime in an emergency is not an issue.  I just hope that I get that way on the new bike.

Yes, that part of Dallas isn't exactly the class part of town, but I've never had a problem at the VA Hospital. I think some of the patients there are more scary than anyone in the surrounding neighborhoods...
 
Lee, you should start a separate thread about your ride.

Good to see ya, Larry!

Welcome to the forum, Larry!

Hey Folks!  I'm Jim and my better half is Elizabeth, new on the board as "PinkTink".  We're down in the La Vernia area outside San Antonio.  We've just made the transition to recumbents in the past couple of years.  I was just really getting back into the DF and MTB riding when a shoulder separation--and the desire to go easier on my posterior region got me looking into recumbents.  We each have Catrikes now, along with an older Corsa and a Burley Jett Creek.  We aren't racers, but I do enjoy the speed.  At 44, I think I'm a little late to get into racing, but you never know.  I'm the stronger rider, but Tink usually equalizes things by making me pull our friends 4 year old in a Burley trailer.  I'm 4 months into a year long deployment to Afghanistan at the moment, so she may catch me on the conditioning!  This is a fantastic job--working to rebuild the Afghan National Army Air Corps, but there isn't much riding to be done!  Hope to meet all of you in the future!