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We used to have a recumbent-and-kayak shop* in my area. The owner tried an early Cruzbike model at an expo years ago, didn't like it because he didn't get the hang of it right away, and has disparaged Cruzbikes as "dangerous" ever since. *He converted the shop to a trike-only...

I've been wondering that myself. I looked at the list of riders on the web site last week and didn't see @LarryOz listed.

I couldn't ride no-hands on the Q until after I swapped out the pogo stick...er, I mean, suspended fork ;) for a rigid QX100 fork, and the stock rear shock for an air shock. Couldn't do it on the S30 until I installed a Thor seat, which raised my head and shoulders a bit. I resemble that remark :D

I have that kind of pedal (Shimano M324) on both my Cruzbikes. I put a mounting bracket from an old set of PowerGrips on my starting pedal to weight it where the platform side defaults to facing me, and the other bracket on the other pedal to default the clip side to facing me.

It will improve. You'll get to where you can take one hand off the handlebars without thinking about it and keep a straight line. You may even find one day, after some practice, that you can ride no-hands.

I have a ride scheduled the first Saturday of August, but other than that pretty flexible.

There's at least one old thread where we beat the subject of Q-ring orientation all to pieces. There should be a link in there somewhere to Rotor's recumbent-setup instructions. https://forum.cruzbike.com/threads/q-ring-upgrade-ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.7784/

That's impressive! I can just see you encountering a group of road bikes, and one of the riders turning to the guy behind him, "I didn't know Cervélo made recumbents?" :D

I run my SPD pedals adjusted almost as easy/loose as they'll go. I have the ones that are platform on one side, clip-in on the other (M324?). Never had a problem with pulling out of them unexpectedly--though I don't hammer and sprint a lot, either. Plenty of adjustment range.

True. Used to have park rangers constantly patrolling the area around Jackson, no one dared break the speed limit because they cut you no slack. Federal budget cuts around 2008 stopped that. I practically never see a ranger up there during rush hour any more, on the rare occasion when I have to...

@ReklinedRider has his pickup bed set up to carry his V20. I've also seen it carry a Sofrider, a Silvio 1.5, and an upright bike at various times.

You'll be coming through my part of Mississippi! Will try to get up to the Trace and cheer you on. One of our local upright cyclists, Scott Kuppersmith, rode the whole thing in 22h 14m in 2015.

I'm 5'5", x-seam about 40.5".

+1 to everything @benphyr said. When I was trying to get used to my Q back in 2014, I turned the stem around like that for a little while. Having my arms so far back made my back hurt, right between the shoulder blades, so I switched it back. I put an adjustable stem on the Q, and eventually a...

Original models were Sofrider (no "T", to help differentiate from Softride beam bicycles) and Freerider. I think the difference there was mostly the handlebars. There was also, following that, a V2K frameset of similar style that you could move your existing 26" MTB wheels and components to. S...

@ChaleJake LOL, you know me too well! @CruzinCambridge Yes, I'm still riding that configuration. Adding a stem riser helped with the thigh interference, so I was able to push the bars out a little more to straighten my arms. It isn't nearly as high as the riser your S30 came with, though. You...

I have a Sportwing 2-bike hitch rack, that I saw mentioned in an old forum thread. The bike hangs from two padded hooks by its wheels. Easy to load the bike, and I have no fear of its coming off. The drawback for me is that it's nearly impossible to load both my Cruzbikes at the same time, with...

Telescoping Front Tube, IIRC. The boom/slider combo.

♫♪ "There's no place that I'd rather be than right here With my red-necks, white socks and Blue Ribbon beer"♪♫ Moldy oldie from 1973

Just spotted an S30 for sale on the Facebook Recumbent Classifieds, in Québec, Canada. $2,200 CAD. Seller's name is Laurent Millot.