Dear Olaf (and others), excusez moi, i jumped to soon to quick to conclusions. Lets talk about the fun of riding the recumbents, especially our beloved centre-steered bikes like the python and flevo. Why i use the Flevobike in the city: for fun, for fun and off course for the fun of it: it's that feeling you get, speeding to a 90 degree turn, or those very narrow corridor to prevent cars from riding over that path. You approach it carefully and a little bit uncertain (do mi make it or not?) and then when turning that 90 degree with a smooth radius, then there is that rewarding feeling that makes riding the bike so specially (that "nirvana" feeling). I like it! Greetings, henk.