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Location: Sin City, Nevada
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Bikes: Catrike 700, Greenspeed GTO trike, , Linear LWB recumbent, Haluzak Horizon SWB recumbent, Balance 450 MTB, Cannondale SM800 Beast of the East
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Not ride recumbents up hills? That's a novel notion for us long time recumbent riders. The problem with most two-wheeled recumbents and hills is they become unstable and hard to steer at very low speeds. For the ones I own that is about 4.5 mph. For trikes, there is really no minimum speed if you have a decent gear range on it and they are not made out of depleted uranium as BlazingPedals suggested. I rarely ride my two-wheeled recumbents these days but it would have to be a very steep hill to make me walk up it. I have never walked any of my trikes up even the steepest hills. I may will get passed by the roadies but that's OK with me.