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This morning I locked my bike on one of the racks on the sidewalk in front of the YMCA. They're just simple steel upside-down U-shapes stuck into the sidewalk, good for one bike on each side, parked parallel to the street.

Coming out of the Y (facing into the sun, mind you, and not wearing my corrective lenses), I saw there was something funny about my bike. It was too wide or something. And was that a helmet hanging from the handlebars? (I'd carried my helmet in.)

As I got closer, I saw someone had parked a Rans Rocket recumbent next to my Vision. I see other 'bents on the road on a fairly regular basis, but this is the first time one's been locked up next to mine.

I felt very silly when I realized that the "too wide" effect was because the Rans had above-seat steering, when my bike has had under-seat steering for years now.