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I'm with him I'm with Mark on that one; I'd say experimental in the best possible sense. As the riders we are experimenting with a "new to us platform" to get more out of our riding experience. The bikes themselves are far from experimental. 3 years ago a Trike was an experiment to see if I...

Tires Charles, The 451 is a version 2 frame running stock version 2 rims with the dual drive and kenda 28-541 ( 20x 1 1/8 ) The 559 is a version 1 frame running stock version 3 rims with the dual drive and Detonator 26-559 ( 26x1.0 ) Pretty much was we got from the sources. For our...

Quest on sale. Jumping over from the performance tea leaves thread to expound on this idea in the correct place. With the price adjustments to the Vendetta and Silvio. What I think is far more interesting thing could get lost in the shuffle. That being the Quest on sale $1695 through...

Makes senses to me Seems like a pretty sensible set of changes in-line with much of thoughts in this thread. Here's my gut reaction to it actually happening: When I first made the final decision I went Silvio. The go fast part of me wanted a Vendetta, but the Silvio was a better buy...

Yes stock to start I'll add to the voice of reason here too; start stock if you don't have a reason not to. You really need to have time to play if you are going to go custom. In our case we by passed the the stock stuff for some special reasons: For me, (1) A poorly healed collar bone...

Not yet but we will Hi Andrei, The PDF is still in the plans. We were waiting for the Cockpits to stabilized throughout the bull horn testing. That's done now and after 400 miles of riding I don't think they will change. So when we get a rainy weekend we will put together the pdf. In the...

So fricking proud Forgot to update this. So Mrs Ratz did her first every Solo road ride; She got ten miles in with traffic and everything. She's fully adapted and now we'll start adding miles and speed. That last bike she road regularly was 18+ years ago; I put her time to acclimate to the...

Makes you want to ... Eric needs to organize the first annual WinnRide; a cruzbike rally in the land of the level and lollipops. I've been consider changing my strava sig image to show elevation in miles because that ft number is hard to grok it's so big.

before.... Before changing out the carbon seat read this excellent article John Denman put together. It applies to more than trikes. http://triketech.com/Rider/seatpadding.html

Cable stoppers that big? Jeremy i couldn't find any cable stopper that were big enough to not slide through the holes in the frame; I've been meaning to ask what part those holes are designed to work with. Since I ran housing the entire way it's not been a big deal to me; but I figured someone...

Yeah I thought it was bad Yeah I thought it was bad too. Still not thrilled. I normally would never buy a Carbon Bottle Cage; and that's what drives the cost. My favorite cage is normally the Plastic Lezyne Flow which is $15, the Lezyne Carbon cages are $59.99. For a bottle I like the Camelback...

First review of the RearViz Ok I got the Rearviz arm mounted mirror; and I have done 5 rides with it so far on both the quest and the silvo. Here's my initial reaction. Positives. The mirror is very comfortable I'm wearing in on my forarm half way between my elbow and wrist. I still...

Found a bottle that works under the Silvo boom Ok I did find a water bottle the works under the boom for those of us with bigger legs or with hyper closed cockpits. It is stupid expensive because the cage is carbon; and you won't find the dimensions for this anywhere online. I had to have a...

With Spring comes the wind Rick, Just so you know I had to ride a long ways straight into a 25mph head wind to get you a nice spring picture. And then the ghost of Arty Johnson had to...

Spring what spring? Cold and rainy here all but one day since this thread started. I'm calling Jinx! Bikes are just itching to get back on the road. We caught them trying to sneek out today....

Ok it's raining again and it will be for a week. So time for some distraction. In keeping with a long standing tradition it's time to come up with names for my new bikes. My Silvio 2 is going to definitely be called "Whisper" and I think we'll have to put that in nice vinyl letters on...

Survey says So over the holiday weekend. I took 1 of 5 (Samantha) out to the park; put her on the Quest and said; do this; do this and then do this. Stressing that it was easy. She had previously tried a Quest last summer for 15 minutes; and hated it. This time (with the positive approach) in...

Catch 22 Opps Larry, yep that's an issue. ..or... maybe not.... Does Frankenbike bother you? If not; then you could cheat for now. The Derailleur doesn't control the travel increments aka the indexing, the shifter does. SRAM shifters are all Linear cable pulls that is why you can...

Flex is flex So the Quest showed up today; assembled it tonight. Nice only took 30 minutes without a manual. Little easier than the Silvio :) Should be perfect for teaching the kids and my folks to ride FWD MBB. But of course because of this thread I had to see if there was flex. I live...

Clever Marc, Very clever; I didn't mount them that way, but I did hold them up like that and look at it. I did conclude they were close enough that CB could probably bend/manufacturing a version of what we have be exploring if it turn out good. I will be curious to see what you find...