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Mr. Hoyden, you asked if you needed to use your chain breaker to push out the pin(s) in your master link. NO No, no you do not. You use a special pair of narrow-nosed pliers to squeeze the master link pins together and, when the master link pins click into the big holes in sides of the master...

I've used my clamp-on SRAM X-GEN top-pull front derailleur for many, many trouble-free years. It's clamped on my Sofrider and it shifts the chain from the 52-tooth big ring to the other two littler-rings and back with a trusty 99-cent bar-mounted friction shifter. The key words are,"many, many...

Every person is unique. You breathe quickly and deeply at the beginning of the ride; I breathe quickly and deeply at the beginning of a workout on the indoor trainer. Towards the end of your ride, your breathing is under control, compared to the beginning of your ride; I breathe more...

Almond milk, cashew milk and any other nut milks... really? How do you milk a nut anyway? They're all nut juice. Sorry. :)

When I pretend to be Jason Perez, the hills get much flatter!

While riding home the other day on my V 1.5, in hard pursuit of a recumbent bike, my front tire lost traction. I was powering through a turn in an intersection in front of all those cars stopped by the light, when I flew over a bump. The drive wheel spun through about a quarter turn in the air...

What's this, "doctor" ..?

As a retired motorcycle test rider, I've ridden lots of different single track, 1.5 track (sidecar) and so on. There is always a learning curve with everything that's new to you. Remember your new car? You had to learn where all the gauges, switches, mirrors, screens, knobs, levers and pedals...

The suspension soaks up the sharper edges of your rides on rough roads and it also soaks up some of your power. The Silvio is a fast Grand Touring bike. Seat angle has the largest effect on speed: Your body is the largest part on your bike. The flatter angle of the Vendetta seat spreads the...

Thumbs-up. As an ex-motorcycle mechanic who was self-taught on bicycles, I totally agree with Mr. Holler. You're probably doing it wrong. Probably. Maybe not... but, yeah. My bike fasteners are all tightened by feel. Yesterday, just for grins, I popped the chain off of the big rings, held it...

Wow. Congratulations and epic job, man!

Not only did I like your post, but I also replied. So there. :D

You guys and your gear! This reads like a fashion show. O.K., so here's my 'sense of fashion!' "Not too way down the list why I like recumbents is I didn't need any special biking clothing. Since speed is less important for me than comfort and style, I wear ordinary shorts and a t-shirt." ~...

All of the routes that start at the bottom of the driveway involve hills... every one of them. The V eats hills way better than the Sofrider which in turn eats hills better than any other local recumbent bicycle. To get a good 18mph average, I must bomb uphill as fast as possible, boom downhill...

Some idiots, like me for example, ride on public roads. Sometimes traffic gets a little heavy around here but mostly the roads are mine. Yesterday, there was a lot of traffic for some reason. There was even a train on the tracks, which caused the guard rails to clang down and block traffic...

I like Spam.

My used V's rear SRAM Red caliper was full of grit; it was grabby and mechanically kind of trashed because of all that road grime. RojoRacing's great picture of his filthy brake reminded me of this. I disassembled, cleaned, lubed and reassembled the caliper and returned it to good working order...

The Ventisit neck rest modifications, iterations, and implementations are both beautiful and useful... but remember, "My Neck Rest is Better Than Yours."

"The left photo does not show the block well but the bolts go through the seat , the rubber block, two washers and through the frame. I used two sets of washers on the back bolts and a single set on the front bolts so that the seat is suspended between the rubber blocks." ~ Bruce B. Superb...

Rake and trail works hand in hand with C.G., wheelbase and wheel diameter. Some people can learn to ride anything on wheels or on a wheel anywhere; Others ... not so much. Alright, the original Sofrider V1 came stock with a rear shock which has a choice of three mounting holes for the...