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A hacker would try to figure out how to shift her friend's derailleur, just to give him a hand.

Might want to change your chainrings or even your cassette for this.

For practical purposes, that's the iPhone crowd, Samsung has ANT+ on most of their phones now. Also, I'm wondering the best place to mount a PowerPod on a CruzBike where it won't have any interference in the airstream.

A water filter bottle is probably a lot more convenient than a lifestraw-style filter. You can filter water then pour it into your water bottles. (I have a Grayl I picked up about 18 months ago, as a backup when I went to Indonesia).

He's also got a tadpole trike. Looks like he's doing homebuilt bikes in a bunch of styles.

I suspect you're losing a nontrivial amount of power in that front triangle, stiffening the front triangle is one of the major things that has happened as the CruzBike models have evolved over time. But otherwise... cool man!

I believe those really short stems are commonly used for "downhill" mountain bikes. I was using one backwards on my Conversion Kit along with a cruiser-style handlebar mounted upside down for awhile.

MUP = Multi-Use Path (walk/bike/skate/...) Example: http://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/management/images/Bicyclists-web-small.jpg

You can see the front wheel 's direction wobbling a bit it's not making the bike move much. A good demonstration that a bicycle's lean is pretty important to turning.

I don't have a V2K frame, but I do have a Conversion Kit based on a Trek Y 26, which has a similar rear triangle geometry. I use a Topeak Explorer Tubular Rack with one Mounting Bracket Arm (extra long 34.5cm) using one side of the rear shock mounting bolt as the mount point. Not as strong as...

DC got about 1" of snow on Wednesday before the big storm which resulted in a huge mess on the beltway. Then Friday-Saturday the metro area got as much as 3' of snow (DC itself was around 20"), out in the far western suburbs it was about 30". Pretty much everything was closed down through...

I've got an older version of the Marmot PreCip Rain Jacket. It's current MSRP is $100. My recollection is I got it on a sale at REI maybe a decade ago. As for cold: layering! I've worn this jacket on warmer ski days with a fleece and thermal underwear underneath. Air temperature right about...

These battery powered drones can't fly very long at all. In the Washington DC area, It's against FAA regulations to fly them pretty much anywhere Inside the Beltway and now the FAA is requiring these toys to be registered (and there will be a fee to do so soon). I suspect compliance with the...

Many Sony and Samsung phones support ANT+, so you can have a bike computer with heart rate, speed, cadence, and power sensor support just by loading an app. Phones though tend to be a lot larger than bike computers with much worse battery life though--on the other hand, you probably already have...

I believe most pedelec use a torque sensor somewhere in the crankset, which may be adaptable to a CruzBike with some work, but certainly isn't as plug&play as the Copenhagen wheel was intended to be (for most bikes). This is probably why most pedelec kits are generally available to bike builders...

I'm hardly an expert, but I've done some (online) investigation in the past. First: The Endless Sphere Forums is probably the biggest DIY ebike online community. You'll probably want to spend some time there. Here's one vendor of kits that seemed to be recommended on Endless Sphere when I was...

Jersey pockets offset to the side actually work reasonably well.

That retroreflective coating sounds really neat. Too bad its not available for bikes any more...

You might want to find someone with a Quest or a Sofrider or even a Silvio nearby to try starting with a less reclined recumbent.

On my conversion kit, if I don't stick out any arms or legs, a crash usually results in a moderate scrape. It's a baaaad idea to try to break a bike fall with hands or feet! New-Skin burns because it includes an antiseptic. There are other liquid bandages which don't include one, but make sure...