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... and his pink t-shirt? The visor is thicker plastic. The shape and configuration are designed for our recumbent head position, protecting my face from rain (to some degree) and sun (my homebound commute is westward). It's a kluge! Held on by zip ties. The red ones sticking up are often...

I'm a year-round commuter in Seattle, with serious need for fenders. On my old Q2 and present Q45 I've used two regular rear fenders, because otherwise my feet, the chain and derailleur get sprayed directly with water and road grime. We have a great used bike store with large parts bins where...

Masks interfere with breathing, so here's another solution: a soda bottle split in two, plus a strap and a foam pad on the forehead. Make the opening below your chin large enough to allow airflow and it doesn't fog up. Tested on some of our local hard hills. Search "face shield from soda bottle"...

The attachment doesn't seem to work on my phone, so this is based on nothing, but one thing I've learned about bicycles is "always check the spokes". Spoke noise can seem to come from anywhere. It can be a click, or almost any noise of metal working on metal. The good thing is that it's easy...

1) many of us see that title appear with our names and wonder similarly ... I feel like the title comes with a responsibility I can't live up to. 2) re your earlier post pointing out that the Diatech must be tightened HARD! Yes, as I learned after too many experiences as @kdc describes. I ended...

So jealous of those smooth streets! Around here your teeth would be rattling!

The air shock stiffens the frame. To me, that's one of its big advantages. Yes, that makes the steering more sensitive, and also more precise. I feel more "one with the bike" using the air shock. The frame is not flexing when I push hard on the pedals. I don't have a rack, but I do have a...

Exposing the main valve means having the shock body on top. I can't think of any reason why the orientation would matter. Maybe it does??? Any opinions?

The most important thing is that the main-chamber pressure must be higher than the negative chamber. I use about 25psi more than my body weight in the main, and about 25psi less in the negative. Just play around with it. Pick a stretch of bumpy road, ride back and forth, adjust, repeat. It's...

A further update: Ak-Tux pointed me to a shipping company that sends household goods to Kenya on a fairly short timescale (2-3 weeks, in normal times). By calling it household goods there is no customs duty. The price is reasonable. It does require some better packaging as it’s likely to be...

I guess no one will be surprised that our trip was cancelled. We were to leave this afternoon. I'm very sorry to miss meeting @ak-tux but there is really no choice about it. Events have overtaken us. We are working on shipping the bike. Fedex and similar would cost about as much as the bike...

Hi all. This is an update on the trip to Tanzania to meet @ak-tux and deliver the bike. As you can all guess, the coronavirus is disrupting this among many other things. We still plan to go (leave next Monday 23 Mar), but it is up in the air with the many flight cancellations. We fly through...

Ivan! Great to hear from you! We miss your posts! I will shortly post an update on the gift.

Hello Cruzbike tribe - Many of you heard via PM that we are raising donations to buy an S40 for Ak-Tux. We did it! Cruzbike agreed to sell us the bike for half price if we could raise the rest among ourselves. As of today we have done this, thanks to the tribe coming together for this...

Glad to hear you're getting good care. One more thing: bedside manner doesn't matter here. You need technical competence, not warmth and sympathy. A lot of these guys (yeah, they're almost all men) do the first, not the second. When I went in to see mine the first time, he barely looked at...

I switched to recumbents 25 years ago because I couldn't swing my leg over an upright. Two total hip replacements later (15 years ago), I have zero problems. Never think about it (except at airport security). Veering away from bicycles, two pieces of advice: 1) get it done by someone who does...

I use a regular stand and grab the bike by the boom tube. The back end will want to swing, so lift the front so the rear wheel stays on the ground. You can often find these stands used pretty cheap ... lots of people have them sitting around their garage. Or, put an eye bolt in a garage roof...

Yes, there are lots of ways to adjust it (and the Q has more adjustments than the S40 because you can lean the seat back, also slide the seat pan forward or back), but the pedal-to-hip distance is fixed by your body, and there can be knee clearance issues. I ended up replacing the handlebar...

I have only a few miles test ride on an S40, but several thousand on my Q45. So FWIW. I also upgraded from my Q559 after more than 10k miles. It was a major, major upgrade, no worries that you won't feel like you've made a big change. Way stiffer, faster (especially uphill) ... the fat boom...

Of COURSE there's such a thing as "bent legs". I am reminded of that fact every time (not very often) I get on a DF and get equally tired and sore as you describe after a few 10s of miles. It's the quads; we use them more, especially uphill. But I agree with @RojoRacing that 350 miles isn't...