R52

Vision R-50 Recumbents The 50 series recumbents are Vision bikes with full suspension. Comfort is their strength, hill climbing is not. Suspension bikes take the phrase �comfort without compromise� seriously. Completely new in 2000, they have the best suspension Vision ever made. The stiffer rear swing-arm gives you almost as much high-speed control as the rigid R-44 or 45. If you are looking for total comfort on bumpy roads, the 50 series is worth looking at. All 50 series bikes accept standard rear racks and panniers. Vision rear suspension bikes tend to �bob� with hill-climbing pedaling effort, this makes climbing harder. The newer R-50 series rear suspension bikes �bob� less and climb better than the older 40 series bikes with rear suspension. The R-40 rear suspension also flexed quite a bit laterally, making high-speed handling poor. The R50 has the R-40s value priced component group mounted on Vision�s new in 2000 full suspension frame. It�s a bike that is affordable, and yet comfortable on any road. DeVon Hoffman of Goshen, IN. comments: The R50 series bikes were all full suspension. The suspension configuration changed over time, especially the rear triangle, with successive model years. The rear shock was a Cane Creek unit. The Vision 50-series was a much different suspension design than their prior rear-suspension bikes which were designated as "40s", "42s", "44s", and "45s", the "s" designating rear suspension. One easily seen difference is that the 50-series, as you'll see on my 54 actually has a rear triangle ... notice also the difference in angle of the rear shock (on 50-series the shock angles upward as it goes forward and on the 40s-series it angles downward.) The 40s-series bikes were VERY susceptible to pogoing (I know, I toured the Oregon coast on one of these energy sappers). While it IS possible to get some pogo from the 50-series, if your shock-pressure is good, you almost have to try to make it pogo to feel the pogo effect.

Russell Roberts writes (April 18, 2018): My grocery getting bike! R-52 paid $100 and hauled on my Honda Scooter almost 100 miles. it was not a comfortable ride and I went slower carrying it! For a $100 I could not pass it up, and sold my other hard tail recumbent for this one with front and back shocks. This is a Cadillac smooth riding recumbent.