Do you have to have the gravity on all the time . . . ?
Well, I discovered today that even my heavy 20/26 Performer responds well to turning the gravity up to 11, even on M Racers.
Was being caught, slowly, by a roadie on a short sharp uphill, and he almost got me, but the climb is followed by an immediate half mile of 11% downhill. I turned the gravity up and the roadie rapidly disappeared into the murk behind me as I hit 40mph. Wheeeee!
I'll confess to a brief consideration of a couple of "what if" scenarios before applying negative gravity via the brakes as I approached a side junction, reasoning that it was early afternoon and chucking out of the local pub grub facility along that lane might result in someone pulling out of that junction, not expecting a red recumbent to be approaching at a much higher velocity than that driver had previously witnessed. But the roadie never caught me, so maybe he went to the pub instead.
Oddly enough, despite my lack of miles over the past few months, few of the roadies who came past me today did so with a significant speed differential. I must be getting fitter. Just wait until the dry roads return and I can get the 700c Highracer out again!