GeoDudeFlorida
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I love my recumbent two wheeler but recognize it is; A) strictly a street bike; and, B) a non solution to very real problems of people with back and knee injuries wanting to ride a bicycle without pain. But it’s an oddity not a commercial success story - much like rimless cartridge revolvers.I posted this on another board, got some interesting responses. With the exception of the ubiquitous 22LR and the S&W M-25 derived from the S&W M1917, none seem to have been commercial successes. They're one of those things, everybody says "Why don't they make..." then they do-and they don't sell. The S&W and Colt M1917s were, like the M1917 Rifle, emergency wartime measures that filled a critical need, in the period leading up to and after the establishment of the State of Israel they experimented with an S&W revolver in 9MM, built I think 150 prototypes, eventually they adopted the Beretta Brigadier.
Often seems to me Jeff Cooper's description of the DA semiautomatic pistol as "an ingenious solution to a non-existent problem "applies. To eliminate the need for half or full moon clips various ingenious extraction system have been developed, I have little experience with them, I have the Colt and the S&W M1917s, the moon clips work fine for me. I have a Ruger 3 screw convertible in .357/9MM, plan on getting a 45ACP for my repro Remington M1875, the ejector rod works nicely for both cartridges.
So it sounds like a fun thing, but as a bicyclist I pointed out to someone who asked why aren't there more adult tricycles/tribikes on the roads, those who have tried them have found they really don't offer anything.
I really like my 1917 Smith and Webley Mk.1 .455/.45ACP.