1. They are easier on backs, necks and wrists.
2. People will wave at you, even if they think you’re weird.
3. You will learn how the world looks like to a tall dog.
Recumbent, from the Latin, recumbere–to lie down, is an accurate way of describing what you get, quite unlike a tall coffee at Starbucks, but Geezer has no time to go there at the moment. He would rather direct his gentle reader to this piece in the L.A. Times describing the peculiar joys (and fears) or riding a recumbent bike. Wait, there’s more: a second piece on How to Buy a Recumbent Bike.