shellbear
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This confuses me because they even have a recumbent group/club on Strava and all of those users have leader board stats, as do I. I guess maybe you won't draw the ire of their admins unless you make KOM/QOM somewhere? I think the whole thing is silly because 1) who gives a crap who's in first on a web service that doesn't give monetary or other awards for stats, 2) anything we gain in comparison to uprights on downhills is negated on uphills, and 3) seems to me the aerodynamic improvement of a recumbent is outweighed (pun intended) by the higher mass of the bike itself. How can they say that comparing recumbents to uprights as a whole is any worse than comparing a steel fixie with a 14lb TT bike with aero drops, aero wheels, and aero helmet? Doesn't make any sense...
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