This weekend's trip is to the edge of the Welsh valleys to meet up with a...

Julian Bond - 2011-09-10 13:01:55+0000 - Updated: 2011-09-10 13:01:55+0000

This weekend's trip is to the edge of the Welsh valleys to meet up with a bunch old friends involved in one of the weirder niche branches of motorcycling. This time it's Recumbent Motorcycles or "Feet Forward". The attached link is a (bog standard Drupal) site I maintain that documents the movement.

I'll definitely be bucking a head wind the whole way down the M4. The big question is how wet we all get tonight and tomorrow!

25 Musley Ln, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7

FF Web | Feet Forward people do it Feet First

Stef Kunzer - 2011-09-10 13:48:48+0000

Not sure I "get it" really. Possibly more comfortable, but certainly more unstable. Think I'll stick to the real thing ;-)

Julian Bond - 2011-09-11 20:20:58+0000

One level of this is to just adjust a Burgman 400 until it's the perfect white van. Top box as a backrest, bigger screen, handlebar grips, bits of estate agent sign duct taped on. There's a much bigger game where you try and improve on a motor in a bicycle. That's really hard when modern bikes are so good. However, the holy grail is to have all the performance and exhilaration without being cold, wet, uncomfortable and fighting the wind that's trying to blow you off the bike. Nobody's ever actually managed that.

Just like cars there's lots of variations. Not everyone wants a Lotus 7.