LarrySellerz

I'll take that as a compliment? I think he is under the impression that I would sleep with his girlfriend if she gave me the opportunity. She won't though, has shot down anything remotely close to that

tomato coupe

Geez, Larry. You tried to get in her pants, and you think it's a compliment that her boyfriend doesn't like you?

Trakhak

3alarmer 

...there's a woman here, out on the river MUP, who routinely passes and pulls away from me, using a two wheeled strider bike. She appears to have 0% body fat, and an overwhelming desire to burn calories.

Eric F 

Is his impression correct? If she did, would you? If the answer is “yes”…well, that’s my point.

ofajen

I mainly ride our local trails system. My vintage MTB lets me work at a decent effort level while the more upright position means my speed is a bit less than it would be with drop bars. That makes things better when I have to pass other cyclists or pedestrians.

OTOH, I have no tolerance for slow tires. I’m running the Race King Protection tires which are pretty fast for MTB tires and perfectly suited to our trails. 👍

Otto

SkinGriz

Like the strider bikes without a drivetrain? But for adults?

Ironfish653

“Street Strider” is one of the brands of those stand-up elliptical bikes. Like 3alarmer said, they seem to be piloted by “Fitness Is My Lifestyle” types.

They’re the answer to the question “How do we make a more intensive workout, while making it completely impractical for anything else you might use a bicycle for?”

PeteHski

Yeah I want to do a workout on my elliptical cross trainer, but I need to do it while moving down the road. Next up will be a rowing "bike" and maybe they could get a squat rack to ride down the road?

tomato coupe

It was invented by the mother of a gym rat that worked out 8 hours every day. “He never goes outside anymore…”

Broctoon

"I want to ride a bike, but I also want to look silly. And anytime I go outside, I'll be missing my gym machines." (Street Strider pops up like a meerkat...)

terrymorse 

Elliptical? Pfft!

Anyone who has the right stuff rides around on a treadmill. Someone in the neighborhood actually rides one of these:



I suspect he rides it to the gym and back again.

Broctoon

"I want to ride a bike, but I also like walking on treadmills, and I'm looking for the most complicated way possible to do both."

That thing is not a good bike or a good treadmill. But I bet it's expensive.

Broctoon

Treadmill? Pfft!

Cut out the middle man. GlideCycle is what all the cool kids will be riding soon.

Maelochs

After seeing war, crime, corruption, all of man's inhumanity to man ... it is seeing that ridiculous suspenda-cycle that makes me realize the human race is not fit to continue ....

ofajen

Kudos to Larry for creating a thread that could lead to posting a photo of this… device 👍

Dare we hope for video? I ask forgiveness…

Video link now a few posts below.

Otto

Broctoon

Every time I see a picture of it, I start to gag and nearly throw up. I quickly look away, but still cringe and shudder a little.

tomato coupe

My money is on the cockroaches ...

Broctoon

ofajen

You Tube

genejockey 

Looks like something SNL cooked up, but no. Once again, real life laps satire.

ofajen

LOL. So we’ve gone back in time 206 years to the “swiftwalker” from Karl von Drais. At least NYC seems to have had the good taste to ban them from the streets when introduced in 1827. 👍

Otto

terrymorse 

I enjoy when someone "invents" a bicycle thing that's actually really old.

That's a Laufmaschine, a.k.a hobby horse, patented in 1817:

genejockey 

"For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot!"

Broctoon

The 1817 version was a better design.