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I have the SportWing. Works great for transporting either of my Cruzbikes by itself, hard for me to fit both at once. Inexpensive and secures the bike well. I also have a Thule T2 rack. More expensive, and way heavier, than the SportWing. Holds both bikes easily. They sit much higher in the...

I don't have a Q45 either. I have an older version, the one before the QX100. I'm 5'5" (165 cm), x-seam about 40.5". When I bought my Q in 2014, I too was concerned with seat height. Back then they sold it with a choice of 26" (559) wheels or 20" (451) wheels, so I went with the smaller wheels...

I have the 21" wide Bacchetta bars on my Q. Picture here: https://forum.cruzbike.com/threads/quest-451-to-507.9777/page-3#post-133916

My Quest, an earlier version of the Q45, came with dual 20" (451) wheels. My niece, who is only about 150 cm, was able to ride it with the front triangle pushed in all the way. She couldn't get her feet down quite flat at a stop, but putting 406 wheels on the bike would have solved that. I'm...

Once you can comfortably take a hand off the bars for several seconds without thinking about it to signal turns, adjust your helmet, drink, etc., you're probably ready. Find a flat or barely inclined stretch of quiet road or parking lot. Medium amount of pressure on the pedals, no mashing...

IIRC, Jim Parker has used a wheel extender on the rear of his Vendetta that lowered the seat to 18 degrees, keeping the 700c wheel. Can't find the thread or blog post, though. Also, several years ago, someone experimented with putting a really small wheel on the back of his Sofrider...

Me neither, LOL. But since I put the Thor seat on my S30, I can finally do no-hands for short distances.

Google up "green platform pedals". They come in all sorts of garish...er, I mean, hi-viz shades.

Still quite pleased with the Thor seat after a couple of months of riding. An unexpected benefit is that I can now ride the S30 no-hands for short distances, which I could never manage with the stock seating position. Have not cut the stem riser any more yet. @ReklinedRider has kindly lent me...

I found the dimensions in an old thread and ordered the screws on Amazon. M6 x 25 Yes, once you get everything adjusted to fit and have more experience riding it, that should calm down. I was super tense for several months, but it did go away.

The Q451 was intended to be packable into a Samsonite suitcase for travel, hence all the QRs for the shock, seat post, riser, seat, etc. I had fits with the QRs on the pivot clamp rubbing also. Getting rid of them was the first mod I made to the bike--I did the same thing @Postapocalypsia did...

That sure is a nice picture of the S30! :D @Jesse Groves, that's my S30 in the top photo. I rode my first century on it a year ago with the stock seat/Ventisit pad and suspension neckrest, but never could get it completely dialed in. Did fine until about 75 miles, then it got uncomfortable. I...

The Silvio 1.0 and 1.5 were 45 degrees, I believe. The pictured bike looks like a 2.something, with around a 28-degree seat angle.

The air-bag suspension is part of the fork, so the fork would need to be replaced. Cruzbike sold the final iteration of the S30 with an unsuspended fork. I had a Silvio 1.5 (they were dual-suspension) for a couple of years, before buying an S30V2 frameset in 2017. The front suspension on the...

These guys are in the Seattle area, and I think I see at least one Vendetta in the group photo. SeaBum 2018

I bought my first Cruzbike four years ago without ever having seen one, with the lure of a 15% discount. I still have that bike, an ancestor of the Q45, along with an S30 (predecessor to the S40) that I rode my first-ever century on last year. Have you considered going to the Cruzbike retreat...

Another benefit I found from changing to the QX100 fork was increased stability. Riding no-hands got a whole lot easier.

I never liked that single-hand shifter for the DualDrive, and hit my knee on it frequently. I found a set of SRAM trigger shifters specific to the DualDrive, which made it possible to hit both knees :rolleyes:, but I liked them much better. I then put a Bacchetta handlebar on, upside down, and...

Response time was good when I ordered mine. My e-mail provider rejected emails from thorseat.eu before they ever got to me, so Greg had to use his gmail account for our correspondence. You might check your spam folder, just in case.

The stock riser on my Quest (V2, originally 451) is about 10" long. I bought the bike new from Cruzbike in 2014, and the riser is one of the few parts I haven't swapped out. I don't know if the Q559 would have come with a longer riser, since the Q451 was sized to fit in a suitcase for travel, or...