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Hi Doug, I need all the preload I can get to keep it from bottoming out when I sit on it. :o Actually, I need to get a really stiff spring set. I don't know anything about the guts of this fork. It is a 2009 Dart 3, I don't remember seeing any elastomers in the exploded views. I know the...

Well, I finally got this b*tch together and rideable. No end of niggling problems but she's nearly road-ready (need to tie up cables, etc.). The seat mount modification worked quite well, I merely hacksawed out the middle section of the seat bracket, leaving the two side pieces as...

Well...I went ahead with "hot rodding" my seat mount. First, I 'massaged' the original seat bracket to better fit the larger tube diameter. When I disassembled the seat and removed the bracket, I found that the corners of the bracket had pierced the rubber pad and cut thru the paint. No dents...

Hi Bill, Yes, I will be paying them a visit. Wouldn't it be nice if they had a Cruzbike ready for me to run up and down the trail! I have also been exploring the option of just buying a rack for the Prius and bringing my conversion along for the week.

LOL! Perhaps that's just 'forced air cooling'? :? I have thought about just creating my own specialized mounting bracket (or cobbling together something that would work). I'll see if I can take some pix, Doug...and you're right, it may be that I'm just thinking too much. Still, we're talking...

Yes, esp. since I have built model airplanes since the early 60's...I have lots of balsa lying about. 8-) I also grew up with an older brother who misspent the early/mid 60's on a surfboard in So. Cal. We built many surfboards in our garage...the smell of F/G resin evokes childhood memories for...

With all the 'non-rideable' weather we've been having, I chose to swap frames on my conversion and do some upgrades. So, mine's down while I get things back together. Saturday I received a new set of 26" wheels (Shimano Deore hubs, Mavic rims) and an Ultegra triple crankset. So yesterday I spent...

Lookin' good there, Mark. My problem is that I need to loose five Silvii. I'm workin' on that...one at a time.

Hi gang, Well, I finally scared up enough components to do an "upgrade" build on my Conversion. I had purchased a much nicer Y-frame (Mongoose brand...probably from the same factory) than my previous Wally-World trash...mostly to get a 1-1/8" headset and a lower seat height (smaller frame). I...

...sometimes nothing works. Bro' Don has an Airzound but he has gone thru three of them as the plastic in the trigger/horn is fragile. They're so damn loud that I'd be afraid to use it, esp. since many of the people on the MUT here are, um, not young. 8-) Actually, I do have a bell and it...

I like those pix, Mark, esp. since it is 32F here and snowing!

Dang. I need cab fare to get there...and back. I wonder if one of the local cabs will let me put a bike rack on? I'm sure Peder wants to go too, but getting a cab to swim from Grimstadt...well, they better start today! :)

Great report, Jamie. Looking forward to more! Dang, this makes me thirsty. Too bad we can't get FSA here in Alabama...yet (the legislature is in session and we have "real beer" bills up for vote).

Yeah, I thought we'd be hearing how he ducked into the loop, shmoozed with Levi and Lance for a few miles and then broke away when the course police asked for his UCI card. I did not ride with the "hardcores" yesterday. I did 3mi downwind to Starbucks, another 3mi to the bike shop, shmoozed...

Oh, aye. I wonder how recent that fluff is? Have you mentioned it to Bryan? If I were me, I would write up a description to be inserted into each one and send it off. Make it appropriate to the style, etc., so it can be easily dropped in for an update. Better to be positive and give 'em...

Considering "The Stig" supposedly comes from the F1 arena (or something like it), I would think one would select someone from the TDF or perhaps the Battle Mountain HPV arena to become "The Recumbent Stig" (some say he has no bum...and that he sleeps hanging from the rafters!). I recall them...

I guess I'm just left out on a limb. What guides? The BROL guide link sez it will be back "Spring 2008"...so no use there. If you go to the "links" section, Cruzbike is not listed as a "sponsor" (nor is there a manufacturer's link or a forum link). However, the link to Recumbents.com works and...

NME isn't an acronym...it is meant to be pronounced. Challenge bikes produced just a few for the racing crowd. http://www.challenge-ligfietsen.nl/html/index.php?taal=fr&selectie=nme Yes! One of my favourite programs. Hammond would do. Neither Jeremy nor James could get past a few feet...though...

Yah, I was thinking the same thing...they voted for a FWD nobody's ever seen. Might as well have voted for an NME. Still...it is a user "write in" vote, so the winners could have been anything.

"Torn", yeah, that's the ticket. :? I have to admit, I was a bit shocked (perhaps disappointment? Chagrin? I was raised in the "Bondo" generation where "Filler = Cheesy") to find out this little 'secret'. Not that it really makes any 'real' difference...it hasn't turned off any of my Silvio...