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50 year project - arm and leg powered recumbent
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Kathy Bilton
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Apr 13, 2012 06:15 PDT
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Thanks to a Google alert, I saw a story about a guy in Tucson who's been
working on his bike for over 50 years.
http://www.kvoa.com/news/local-rider-invents-arm-and-leg-powered-recumbent-bike/
It seems that this segment, 2 Wheelin' in Tucson, is a regular one on that
channel. Here are some earlier ones:
http://www.kvoa.com/search/?sterm=wheelin+&sbutton=Go
BTW - I was riding the CCT from out past Chain Bridge into Georgetown a
couple of weeks ago on a nice Saturday and got to thinking recumbents
don't exist any longer. I saw not a single other one.
What I did see, and had never noticed before, was a small span of what
looked to be an old brige segment just before getting to Key Bridge. It's
now being used as a storage area for rowing shells. Curious about what
it was, when I got home, Google informed me that it was part of the old
Alexandria Aqueduct. From one page about it
http://www.potomacriver.org/history/regions/region%2008/section2.htm
comes the statement about Key Bridge: When traffic is jammed,
Washingtonians refer to the bridge as "The Car-Strangled Spanner."
--Kathy
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