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Carbon fiber caution: Carbon fiber is conductive. One of my old customers is a carbon fiber manufacturing facility. I used to repair their high voltage power supply, which used to short out a lot due to errant airborne carbon fiber filaments. So, keep your workplace clean and well ventilated...

Happy Annual Eatathon, Part One!

Try it! I always mock things up with cardboard and gaffers tape. Instead of my painting word pictures, just go look up some photos of the Velokraft NoCom. See how the frame frames the wheels? "Splitter plates." You know, splitting the slipstream. On my Sofrider, the stock paint has lots of...

Jim Parker wrapped a rear V triangle with plastic sheeting and he has not published anything further. My guess is that there is no advantage... and here's why. I have experimented a lot with fairing round tubes and round tubing responds well to fairing. Those tubes on the rear of the V are...

The front tyre is flat. Not that that makes a difference.

http://cruzbike.com/forum/threads/evolving-wooden-chainstay.8558/ http://cruzbike.com/forum/threads/sofrider-v1-mods.4959/ Here's a tongue-in-cheek post on BROL, comparing my bikes to each other. It's useful and I'm being honest, but I had fun posting it in hostile territory. Yeah, I'm a...

Mention the acronym, 'BROL' and I see red, so this is all your doing.... I have quite a lot of personal experience with hills, bottom bracket height and seat angle. Alright, so I learned to love custom seats and I make my own to save enough money for food and rent and stuff. On my old...

Very pretty! Both your picture and your story.

That's a nice low racer, Mr. Larry! The low ones are fun to learn to balance. When you're up to speed on that bike, try comparing running times with the suspension to running times with the suspension locked out. To my eye, it looks like rear pogoing under power will suck some energy.

I'm mildly interested in the fork and the swing arm: the rest of the bike, not so much. The last production Sofrider weighed 34.5 pounds and it was equipped with two front rings, front derailleur & V-brakes. This limited edition V2K framed sofrider clone is built with just a single front ring...

Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of your mother, Snilard. -Steve

O.K., so, the purpose of the trainer skewer I found was to mount the V onto the trainer. I wanted, very badly, to swap out the bikes every now and then; test the V's drivetrain under power right next to all of my tools and out of the weather. The legalese that came with the skewer emphasizes...

V1.5 front (drive) wheel skewer is 170mm I searched, off-and-on, for weeks and ramped-up the search to a double-serious effort a few weeks ago. Today I received my new skewer in the mail. It's a: Cannondale Extended Rear QR Kit 130/135mm KA048 Part number 12XS1...

http://www.vendettacycles.com/vendettacycles/about.htm http://www.vendettacycles.com/vendettacycles/gallery/road/saffron/album/index.html These'll get you into the site. Sorry 'bout that. These bicycles are gorgeous and hand-crafted machines appeal to me. This site was kind of stumbled upon...

It's a bicycle, it says, 'Vendetta' right on it, but my Vendetta is different! http://www.vendettacycles.com/vendettacycles/default.htm

Your elbows are injured. Stop injuring them. How? Learn to ride without your elbows. Learn to ride with your legs, hips, head and even the frame of your bike doing the steering. You may have to ride something else, something that keeps you off of your V 2.0, if you can't not use your elbows...

Thank you for sharing your story, Larry. I feel so, so, so smugly superior right now. :p

BROL . . . -meh- Like Dr. Jim Parker, I researched recumbents online and independently came to the conclusion that Cruzbike was mechanically efficient, competitively priced and, therefore, the only bike that made sense. I bought it online, sight unseen, from some weirdo in N.C. who was selling...

Quoting from, The Book of Meep: "MEEP." -Amen

Aside from the extra weight that USS Yiggy has to carry, she also has front and rear suspension. The Ridley Fenix Carbon bike that you rode is unsuspended. Experience has shown me that the suspension on my Sofrider V1 absorbs a portion of the meager power that I make. My Sofrider always...