Recent content by Trevski

.. ?after going for a couple Didn't get a single 'Cool Bike!' comment either...Sigma's obviously much too conventional

Sofrider V Sigma I picked up the last Sigma available in Perth from John a couple of weeks ago. It's very comfortable, considering it's an unsuspended bike - the front wheel way out there takes a lot of the shock out of bumps compared to my Sofrider, even with it's 40mm of front suspension. I...

Freeway bike hike Hi Greg, Good to know I wasn't the only Cruzbiker! Now I just need a Vendetta to show those DF guys how fast a real bike is...fastest time on Strava was 1:27:58 @ 47.6 kmh, which makes my effort look tame. I'm 261 out of 292!! Glad I said I wasn't in a hurry...

Hi folks, just thought I'd post about my latest achievement on the Sofrider. I entered the 2013 Freeway Bike Hike that we have in Perth, full hike is about 67km, from Mandurah to Perth, up the southbound lanes of the Kwinana Freeway. It was my first time on the hike, and I was a little...

Same thing happened to me. Same thing happened to me. Nothing to do with perhaps being a little bit overloaded on the tour I did last November ...I've been looking at a Plescher - they seem to be the duck guts in double kickstands.

I reckon they're expensive I reckon they're expensive for a bike, but cheap for a recumbent. I purchased my Sofrider in Feb 2010, picked it up from John's place in Perth. Having only ever owned department store bikes before, I was very impressed with the quality of the parts. Since then, I...

P clips work When I put the SKS Chromoplastics on my Sofrider, I used P clips around the forks - 35 or 38 mm from memory...or was that on the mountain bike? Anyway, if you measure the side and front thicknesses of the fork just above the calliper mount and take an average, that's the one you...

There have been quite a few posts, over the time I've had my Sofrider (Clarissa), about putting a triple chainring on the bike. I have always wanted a granny gear, and was leaning towards buying a 24 tooth 74mm BCD ring. To fit it, I would have to drill and tap the pads on the crank my bike came...

Hi folks, haven't posted in quite a while, as work keeps me from riding as much as I would like - or, it seems, attending to regular maintenance. My usual service schedule is a minor clean, lube and check over every 100km, and major clean, lube and adjustment every 500km...but I've let it slide...

Hi Folks, I thought I'd Hi Folks, I thought I'd better give an update on this. It looks like my last post has fallen off the wagon, though, because I mentioned how I'd done two off road metric centuries, on consecutive days, on a diamond frame mountain bike, without the knee issue cropping...

Last night, I attempted to update the image in one of my first posts - the image is no longer on that server, so has disappeared from the post. I can update the post, image appears in preview, but then an error message is returned when I hit Submit - specifically: General Error SQL ERROR [...

Thanks Doug, that's a useful table! They even have a conversion calculator to whatever measurement you like - I make it 169 inch pounds / 19 Nm. Glad I asked and didn't go straight for the 40Nm I found previously...could have been nasty... Cheers, Trev

Hi Folks, I am chasing the torque specs for the crank arm bolts. I have removed the arms and repacked the bottom bracket bearings, but couldn't find any branding on the bottom bracket components, so I can't do a web search for manufacturer specs. I have done the bolts up about 25% tighter than...

Nahhh....where's the fun in that?

How stupid is this? When I went clipless, I was really worried about forgetting to unclip before coming to a stop. Worried to the point where I was unclipping at least 20 metres before coming to a halt. But time and experience (forgetting to unclip :oops: ) taught me that it's a non-issue, in...