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  1. ratz

    First Vendetta Ride WooHoo!

    Ventisit cheapest right here Like everyone else will say. The balance will come; and its mostly about the laying down so low. See the various threads for practice drills. I can't stress enough that doing your figure eights and practicing hill starts will help alot. I'm starting think about...
  2. ratz

    New V20 For Sale

    Quick someone buy that thing Quick someone buy that thing and save me.... CS, the lack of suspension probably won't kill you; the V20 has a long wheel base and that tends to smooth things out. I ride 100 mile rides on our lunar chipseal without a problem. It's not as silent smooth as the...
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    How I spent my Summer Vacation (an ongoing vendetta saga)

    Possibly, but they are ultra Possibly, but they are ultra light and that's a lot of weight hanging back there with bottles and bags hanging from it. I was surprised that I snapped the toppeaks. Once it's all installed and loaded we'll see how it looks and how sturdy it is.
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    How I spent my Summer Vacation (an ongoing vendetta saga)

    Improving durabilty Back in post number 4 of this thread I detailed building the Bottle mount using two Top Peak brackets. They work but they also broke when I laid the bike a little roughly on it's side in a ditch while rushing to inspect the the farmer's corn. So I started the search for...
  5. ratz

    Q ring upgrade - Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    Qring change photo Updated Photo. Ok here you go but it doesn't look like much. As you know Each time you move 1 position on the Aero 110 BCD ring, you actually invert the ring. So when I was test #3 the ring was flipped 180 degrees with position #3 at the arrow, now it's flipped back...
  6. ratz

    Q Hybrid

    Ver 2 & 3 slim, I haven't measured the boom to the degree you have. But I do jump on all three versions and ride them depending on who grabs which bike. The flex on all three feels to the rider to be the same. I have also moved boom parts between the v1 and v2 without issues. The other thing...
  7. ratz

    Components for a Silvio S30

    Fix the braze on Get ahold of Steve scabinetguy he has solved your problem for you. if this wasn't for the tilting project I'd tell you that you'll not need that ultra low end, you'll still probably slip the wheel in the lowest gears but it will be interesting to see what you think in the end.
  8. ratz

    Q ring upgrade - Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh......

    More Testing After month, I have now onto OCD 4; that made a nice jump in maintainable cadence. Going round at 90-100rpm now withouth any problem. Going to give the a go for another 30 days and then if it's still good and no appreciable power lost, I'll move on to OCD5. Right now my knees...
  9. ratz

    Truth Be Told in the Video

    I pulled the current copy I pulled the current copy from videomonkey dot org and it came up clean on my machine very odd. I sent you a link to two different clean versions to play with.
  10. ratz

    Components for a Silvio S30

    Nice work. You've Nice work. You've successfully created and documented the cleanest small ring solution we've seen. Charles you are running out of excuses not to by a Silvio..... it's almost too easy now.
  11. ratz

    Truth Be Told in the Video

    Try Video Monkey Rick, Try pre-converting them to MP4 with Video Monkey which is free for you Mac. I'm pretty sure it'll work; I developed the settings for visualhub back in the day and Video Monkey is using the code tyler released to the world when he killed visual hub. They output pretty...
  12. ratz

    Components for a Silvio S30

    Crud! I got scooped by both Well you know us guys that work at a computer all day; un-snoopervised. we get bored easy. Don't think of it as scooped; we are merely your mignons.
  13. ratz

    Lane Splitting Video

    Solar baby Rick, I've got one of these solar batteries $20 on amazon; I've never charge the battery via the wall; it's alway full from being in ambient light. might work installed on top of your bentup bag.
  14. ratz

    Posting pics

    For iphone and ipad..... Use For iphone and ipad..... Use "Simple Resize" for iOS works perfectly. Was going to put the link in but the spam filter hates me today. On the Mac; I actually just keep a pre-built export for Cruzbike and BROL click; apply; save done. :)
  15. ratz

    Lane Splitting Video

    Wow that would get you Wow that would get you punched or coffee thrown at you around here.
  16. ratz

    Breathing technique on Silvio

    Billy here's the original Billy here's the original stability discussion; http://cruzbike.com/incredibly-stable-recumbents It might be good to add to that thread and keep it going. Interesting topic but it certainly can overwhelm an non technical thread pretty quickly. I'm not a...
  17. ratz

    Components for a Silvio S30

    That will excite a number of That will excite a number of people. While that Sugino isn't cheap; the savings in setup grief will be well worth it. Now before Charles chimes in. If there aren't photos; it never happened :)
  18. ratz

    Q&V Disk Brakes, and other part commonality.

    There will be issues. As the Q ships....... 1) The Internal gear hub is 451 or 559; Unfortunately hub will not work on the Silvio because it requires dropouts for the axle. You will have to convert the Q to a Traditional rear hub with a removable skewer to use the same drive wheel on the...
  19. ratz

    Breathing technique on Silvio

    relax trick I should have mentioned that; putting the knees together pretty much forces you to relax from the knees down; and unloads the weight from the pedals. It dampens the steering by preventing left/right swaying; and you get ride of rotating feet and flopping heels. It's sort of a...
  20. ratz

    Fun with wheels

    Ha I was going to cut them Ha I was going to cut them out of paper and put on a pinwheel to view the spin. So now I just need to bribe Rick to animate them all. On a side note; once we get a set successfully produced; Mrs Ratz is willing to do a few custom colors and wording for others...
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