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I like bar-end friction-shifters so much I made one.

One of us has got it wrong somehow. You should be able to stick a Sram 12sp cassette in the same place as you stick a Sram 11sp one. Or I am confused. Either you or me or the twit at the LBS is. Possibly all of us.

I let a tiny bit of air out of the tyres. I think something is wrong with my pressure gauge. I never needed to look at it. I just used to feel how hard the tyres were. When I was attempting tubeless, the instructions said 60psi. I was pumping the Airshot and it took ages to get it to 60psi...

These bikes had the Kind shock in the forks. The back suspension consisted of the titanium strip and a bit of rubber. Because of the suspension, the stays had to be flexible, so they were made of carbon. The rear triangle was bolted on and could be removed. From a production line point of...

In bottom gear the tensioner is pulled out straight. You could ride on bottom gear without one. In top gear it is folded in almost as far as it can go. They must be approaching the limit of possible range of ratios. If you want more cogs in the same frame you have to make them and the chain...

I got some more Gravel King tyres. No luck with them either. I kept trying and they would not hold air. In the end, in desperation I decided to try tubes again. I looked for more tubes and the first ones I found were narrow ones. Why could I not find them before? Success! They held air...

At least you decided to sell it. You didn't lose it to thieves.

I was falling inwards in turns on my Silvio. I forced myself to lean less. It is a weird feeling. You have to feel, as you start the turn, that you are about to fall outwards, and resign yourself to your fate. Then a miracle happens and you complete the turn with your feet still on the...

Early days. You will start to notice things as time goes on. Somebody made a fairing, but I cannot find the thread on this forum now.

Aargh the process! Eventually you will get such a kick out of riding it that the process will be forgotten.

You have just got yourself a very powerful performance-enhancing drug. Unfortunately you are now addicted. And banned by the UCI.

I think that an old-fashioned hub cannot accommodate 10t. That is what those who want to sell us new hubs would have us believe. You may find some small company making such a sprocket if you look deep into the internet. Garbaruk make a 58t ring. This is supposed to be for 11sp. I use a...

An admission that my lungs are buggered. And I had a Silvio and I now have a S40 and I never had a Vendetta. And the tyres I am hoping to eventually get working will be tubeless. And double chainwheels make me SICK! The ratios on 1X are too far apart for the racers, so they have to endure...

I am assuming that you mean a 53t ring and 11t cog. The old XX1 cog is 10-42. If my calculations are correct, a 48t ring will give very nearly the same top ratio. The nearest bottom ratio to the one you said is a 46t ring. The new 12sp cogs will definitely do it. If my arithmetic is solid.

Should have asked me.

I got a Airshot. One tyre seated itself and inflated rock-hard. It then went flat. The other one never inflated at all. I am almost ready to start looking for 700c clincher rims. I have one more idea. I damaged the beads of these tyres trying to get them on and off. Maybe that is why they...

Silvio is the best town-bike a recumbent can be. Recumbents cannot do bunny-hops up kerbs. Some types of lock are really awkward with a recumbent. If your Trek has a hub-gear you will miss that. I have a Grasshopper, but I did most of my shopping on my Silvio. I overstuffed the Silvio's bag...

My Silvio clicked once every rotation of the pedals. It used to do this for about a month, then stop for about a month, then start again. My 1950s Claude Butler's left pedal used to come loose. I carried a tool so I could fix it in the street. It used to do it all the time for about a month...

So You get a Cruzbike and you do not spend ages adjusting the boom? Cannot get my head round that.

On the derailleur there are three really inaccessible screws. The usual high and low limit screws and one they call the B screw. When you are in the second-biggest cog the chain tensioner will rub against the biggest cog. This might happen in the third-biggest cog. Screw the B screw in and...