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I've occasionally mounted a Mobius Action Cam, which is a budget action cam from last year. The manufacturer is responsive to the user community. I haven't followed developments so I'm surely out of date, there probably is better now. Ah, checking out Techmoan, there looks to be some newer...

Great ride story! Before getting a dedicated camera, you could start by mounting your phone on your bike. Here's an online recumbent crank length calculator: http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/misc/crank_angle.asp

Wow, those are kind of pricey. Unfortunately Zappos doesn't seem to have Sidi in stock right now, and I'm a bit leary of ordering from the UK... On the other hand, I just ran across Keen shoes at Rose Bikes. WIth Keen, I've got a good idea of sizing, so this is a bit more tempting...

Looks like about 15 miles north of Sacramento? I used to live in Sunnyvale (silicon valley) and hmm... you could ride almost year round, if you didn't mind getting wet during the winter rains (and sometimes the winter would get cold enough to have some snow...)

I really have to try on shoes to see if I'll be comfortable. I suspect my size would be around 40, but the main concern for me is width in the toe box. I've tried a bunch of men's sandals and I've found very few to be comfortable just standing in a store, much less walking. It's a bit odd, but...

Congrats! It took me about a dozen rides before I was comfortable getting a water bottle out from the back of the seat on my Conversion bike, until then I had taped a bottle cage to the steerer in front of me.

Aha, btw, if you're wondering why the quote and my current version of the post is different... I made a more careful tracing and remeasured...

Hmm. I don't see how to send a PM, but this isn't very private, but I make my foot to be about 9 1/2" x 4" or about 240mm x 100mm

I meant to post on this last summer, but Yiggy 1.2 has the fork, stem, and handlebar mentioned in the post on the Conversion Kit board. Also, I swapped the pedals with my other bike so i got better fitting toe clips. Late fall I had a slow speed crash which resulted in the large chainring...

I'm now wondering if clipless pedals are in Yiggy's future. I've never used clipless before, never heard of them when I got my previous bike (around 1995) and I have problems finding comfortable shoes/sneakers and have serious doubts I'll find any cycling-specific shoes comfortable. I've got...

Samsung and Sony now have a bunch of phones that now have ANT+ support, and there are Android bike computer apps that can take advantage of that support. Check the directory at thisisant.com (Look under the Consumer menu and select the "ANT+ in Phones and Tablets" link). Also, there are dongles...

Brian, that's a major part of Brian, that's a major part of the conversion kit, a pair of brackets that allow you to mount the drive train and former rear wheel to a front fork. Here is a picture of one of the brackets, mounted to a fork with the wheel, the chainstay, the wheel, and the...

The conversion kit assumes a The conversion kit assumes a 1 1/8" diameter steerer tube. Anything else required some sort of adapter. I have a lot of detailed specifications in my posts about my conversion, the USS Yiggy, which is based on a Trek Y-26, a 26" Y-frame mountain bike. There used to...

Another bike computer app Another bike computer app with offline maps: IpBike The user interface is a bit ugly (the author is working on a complete redesign) , but if you have ANT+ sensors on you and/or your bike and your phone has ANT+ support (last few generations of Samsung Galaxy and Sony...

A suspension fork is not A suspension fork is not necessary but probably desirable. However a lot of forks will have disc brake mounts which are incompatible with the FWD brackets. I bought a RockShox fork and cut/ground off the tabs with a dremel-clone tool. That chain seems awfully loose.

According to my notes The components with packaging (but excluding the shipping box the stuff came in) was 10.0 pounds. The packaging is almost entirely plastic bags (most likely polypropylene) and a little bit of cardboard around the FWD brackets. So 9.9 pounds is probably about right. The...

Two different considerations 1happyreader: There are two implicit halves to your question, start-up transients and long-run behavior. Or another way to put it: energy to get up to a specific speed and power to remain at that speed. (Power is energy over time, an important distinction.)...

First ride impressions on version 1.2 beta 1 Quick impressions (only about 5 minutes on bike, it is a light drizzle outside): Significantly less thump and vibration going over bumps (this is at very low speeds though). Significantly more stable. With the rigid fork, it looked like...

Version 1.2 beta almost ready to ride I had attempted to put the new suspension fork on the bike but ran into problems, the headset parts fell out and I wasn't quite sure I got it back together correctly and the new fork didn't have a crown race. I bought a new headset and had the LBS install...

Storage options Yep, moderately pricey. I actually already have a Topeak MTX TrunkBag EXP which actually has a larger nominal capacity, so I'm definitely leaning towards getting a Topeak seatpost mounted rack. I'm intrigued by the Silvio under seat storage idea. I'd also like some accessible...