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forget about bikes, forget about recumbents - check this:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3539529223720740458&q=street+luge&total=679&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
now that's what I call a small frontal area!

That is mental! Not surprised that they wear motorbike gear for that.

It's nuts. It's not entirely clear whether or not they have any brakes (apart from doing a flintstones at the end to come to a stop). so once they're off all they can do to avoid each is other is steer round the guy in front.

On the plus side, you could probably pass right under an oncoming truck completely unscathed!

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natureboy On the plus side, you could probably pass right under an oncoming truck completely unscathed!

That's what I thought! Reminds me of a classic car I saw once at some fair thing ages ago that was so low it could drive under a moving lorry.

hmmm.. I think they'd be fine under a lorry, except maybe.. hm.. their heeeeads??! :D

Wow.
Reading through some other threads I just remembered my dream last night.
I had bought a contraption kind of like a cross between one of these street luges and a recumbent from ebay.
It had 2 700c HED trispokes attached somehow. Anyway, I left it at some place I was working and it got nicked.
Then the next night the burglar brought back the luge part and left it where the whole thing had been.

I remember being really pissed off as i wanted the wheels more.
No wonder I'm tired today.

i had a dream my bike was stolen the other night the thief put back a crappy old twisted rusted frame in it's place

I had a dream that involved three girls last night it was ace.

JOL sound like you where dreaming of a gravity bike.

Yeah maybe it was like that.

yeah i woke up really happy this morning,about half hour later i realized my dream wasnt real....i was well pissed off!....im not going to say what my dream was:)

aidan yeah i woke up really happy this morning,about half hour later i realized my dream wasnt real....i was well pissed off!....im not going to say what my dream was:)

hmm... I seem to get more of those dreams where you wake up and you're really relieved when you realise it was a dream.

i deffenatly would prefer my to have been true:(