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It is good to hear you have resolved your knee pain issue Winded Lowrider. As for the seat I find the stock seat with a Ventist pad to be very comfortable but then I have not tried one of the custom seats. The stock seat would seem to be the lighter choice. Have you tried adjusting your head...

Stop obsessing. Just ride.

I had a P-38 prior to my purchasing a Silvio 2.0 and your experience matches mine Mixerman. The Silvio was a faster bike overall. It did take me awhile to adjust to the much more reclined position on the Silvio. I now have a Vendetta and it just flies up the short steep stuff as DavidCH says. My...

I have a Freerider, similar to a Sofrider but with high riser handlebars, and Suz nailed it when she called it a tank. It is difficult to start up, especially on an incline. If I'm at a stoplight and on an incline I sometimes have to walk the bike across the intersection because I cannot get...

I must be lucky but I have not had much trouble setting up my Vendetta's head rest. I have it so the contact point is just under my occipital bone and just under the rear strap on my helmet. It probably helps that I use a Base Camp helmet with a magnetic visor which needs to be down slightly on...

I have been using the old style mountain bike style, double sided SPD's (AKA "Spuds") ever since Shimano introduced them over 20 years ago. As a testament to how well they hold up I still have the 1st pair I ever bought. My wife uses them too and between the 2 of us we have about 6 pairs. They...

I would like to attend but the logistics of getting across the country with a bike (or bikes if Tricia decides she wants to come along) are just too daunting. Maybe next year the retreat will be up around Portland again? I did spend some time in coastal NC once. My first duty station after...

With all the talk from Ratz, Jason, Larry & others about the superiority of tubeless tires I decided to try them out to see how they compare. One incident helped lead me to try tubeless and that is when I was riding through town on the V to meet some friends for a ride when I experienced a...

No, it is not what you might think - a full on review of the Vendetta or the S40. It is in an ad for a fund raiser ride but I think this is the 1st Cruzbike to ever appear in Bicycling and the 1st recumbent to appear in their pages since Dan Koppel did a feature on the Midwest Recumbent Rally in...

I have an old Freerider with essentially the same front suspension. I think the suspension fork is maintenance free - at least I have not had to do anything to it. The suspension does work if it takes a hard hit. I can feel it when I roll into my driveway where there is a 1" lip.

We rode the Katy once with the Missouri State Parks Dept. which puts on a ride every year. They carry your gear and provide an evening meal and camp sites along the way. The trail is hard packed dirt/fine gravel. We had 1.5" tires on our Rans Screamer recumbent tandem which worked just fine. I...

I have had my Vendetta a couple of months now and I am having so much fun exploring it's speed potential. To mount the bike I straddle the seat and then slide my butt down and forward while my chest slides down under the boom; like I imagine entering a Formula One race car is like. Once nestled...