Recent content by chicorider

When I was starting out, years ago, I was gripping the bars so tightly that I pulled a ligament in my right arm. It took seven months to heal. In that time, Robert suggested that I "grip the bars like they were ripe bananas." That changed everything. When I got going again, the lighter touch...

Agreed. I only truly focus on holding a straight line when I have to, like when a car is passing, or a DF rider is trying to draft off me. Otherwise, I let the bike have its small natural wiggle or shimmy. It is part of learning how to relax, which leads to the feet being integrated into the...

Just echoing what has already been said... I started out nine years ago with a V20, probably the hardest of the CBs to learn. Everyone's trip through the learning curve is different, but it took me about 1,000 miles and equal doses of patience and stubbornness to get to the point where I didn't...

What Henri said. You are on the learning curve, and it is real. It varies in steepness and length from rider to rider, but the main thing is to be patient with yourself, and to break your practice into repetitions over time as your brain slowly but surely rewires itself for a new way of riding...

Glad the go-for-a-ride tubeless tire setup suggestion helped. Setting up hydraulic brakes is often a fiddly business, especially if your rotors aren't dead-straight (and they hardly ever are). Patience usually wins in the end. And a light coating of carbon paste should do the trick. I also...

That looks like the last of the Vendetta V.2, right before it became the V20 with the red frame and revised front end. My first Cruzbike was a yellow V.2, and like the one you have, I also swapped out the big yellow boom and polished aluminum slider for the updated V20 boom and slider, and...

Everyone's experience will be unique to them. However... I too am 5'3" and have ridden a V20/V20c for nine years, an S30 for six years, and an S40 for a couple years, all with 700c wheels. I don't struggle with starts and stops. Granted, the learning curve was steep at first, but once I was...

It depends a little bit on what brand of sealant you use. I use regular Stans, which basically evaporates over time. I don't clean it out or even pop the tire bead before refilling. If the tire is new, I add about 2.5oz. After that, I add 2oz. I do about three such rounds until the tire...

That's pretty much how I do it. Use a compressor to seat the bead (pop-pop-pop), add sealant through the valve stem, re-inflate, go for a ride. I have five bikes, all running tubeless tires, and I add sealant every six months, or so. To help keep track of that, I keep a list of dates, new...

I've had one contact. We are setting up a time for a test ride.

Yikes! Sorry to hear about your tire explosion. My experience with mounting tubeless tires and adding sealant is that it takes a ride to really work the sealant into all those tiny spots where air can leak out. Make sure the bead is all the way set on the rim, pump up the tires to regular...

My description is purely anecdotal. I struggle to understand why I've noticed different patterns with the various CB models I've owned, and other riders might have a different experience from mine. I agree that the V20 position feels most natural. It has an all-day level of comfort that the...

There are several variables when it comes to climbing with Cruzbikes, some related to the bike, some to the rider. I climb a fair amount on my V20c and S30 and have enough practice over nine years that I don't tend to have balance issues, even at slow speeds (though at first, I was all over the...

Carbon paste primarily does two things: it provides that little bit of grit to help prevent slippage for parts like carbon seatposts and handlebars. And it acts as a barrier to keep certain parts from fusing to other parts--especially true of seatposts, which, under the right conditions...

Hi again Maria. I was able to create an account and add pics on my phone. All good now.