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The bottom bit of text and photo is from a FaceBook post I made 2 weeks ago. I had made contact with Ivan through this forum and met him at a local club's benefit ride in Salem back in April. For that ride he choose to ride his Eliptigo rather than his Vendetta. He contacted me recently...

Curses! Foiled again! Eh, Lief?

It is good to hear you have resolved your knee pain issue Winded Lowrider. As for the seat I find the stock seat with a Ventist pad to be very comfortable but then I have not tried one of the custom seats. The stock seat would seem to be the lighter choice. Have you tried adjusting your head...

Stop obsessing. Just ride.

I had a P-38 prior to my purchasing a Silvio 2.0 and your experience matches mine Mixerman. The Silvio was a faster bike overall. It did take me awhile to adjust to the much more reclined position on the Silvio. I now have a Vendetta and it just flies up the short steep stuff as DavidCH says. My...

I have a Freerider, similar to a Sofrider but with high riser handlebars, and Suz nailed it when she called it a tank. It is difficult to start up, especially on an incline. If I'm at a stoplight and on an incline I sometimes have to walk the bike across the intersection because I cannot get...

I must be lucky but I have not had much trouble setting up my Vendetta's head rest. I have it so the contact point is just under my occipital bone and just under the rear strap on my helmet. It probably helps that I use a Base Camp helmet with a magnetic visor which needs to be down slightly on...

I have been using the old style mountain bike style, double sided SPD's (AKA "Spuds") ever since Shimano introduced them over 20 years ago. As a testament to how well they hold up I still have the 1st pair I ever bought. My wife uses them too and between the 2 of us we have about 6 pairs. They...

I would like to attend but the logistics of getting across the country with a bike (or bikes if Tricia decides she wants to come along) are just too daunting. Maybe next year the retreat will be up around Portland again? I did spend some time in coastal NC once. My first duty station after...

With all the talk from Ratz, Jason, Larry & others about the superiority of tubeless tires I decided to try them out to see how they compare. One incident helped lead me to try tubeless and that is when I was riding through town on the V to meet some friends for a ride when I experienced a...

No, it is not what you might think - a full on review of the Vendetta or the S40. It is in an ad for a fund raiser ride but I think this is the 1st Cruzbike to ever appear in Bicycling and the 1st recumbent to appear in their pages since Dan Koppel did a feature on the Midwest Recumbent Rally in...

I have an old Freerider with essentially the same front suspension. I think the suspension fork is maintenance free - at least I have not had to do anything to it. The suspension does work if it takes a hard hit. I can feel it when I roll into my driveway where there is a 1" lip.

We rode the Katy once with the Missouri State Parks Dept. which puts on a ride every year. They carry your gear and provide an evening meal and camp sites along the way. The trail is hard packed dirt/fine gravel. We had 1.5" tires on our Rans Screamer recumbent tandem which worked just fine. I...

I have had my Vendetta a couple of months now and I am having so much fun exploring it's speed potential. To mount the bike I straddle the seat and then slide my butt down and forward while my chest slides down under the boom; like I imagine entering a Formula One race car is like. Once nestled...

So an S45 is a Silvio 1.0 or 1.5 without the suspension and with a hydro formed frame and maybe a longer wheelbase? Sounds like a winner to me. I have a 1.0 which I dearly love and have named Sweet Pea because it is such a nice bike for fast but sociable crusin'. It climbs like a mountain goat...

Shipped it off this morning to a buyer in Connecticut. This bike was my entry drug into the Cruzbike Tribe. It took me awhile to get the hang of operating the FWD, MBB system but what a revelation once everything started to click! I'll miss the down the road comfort of the dual suspension but...

I had fenders mounted on this bike with 25c tires but that was the upper limit.

Wow, that Monster Cookie ride comes up pretty soon. I will register for it. I have never done it before. I did Lebanon's Strawberry ride last year and I have helped out with and did the metric century for our club's Covered Bridge Ride. Just got back from a 42 miler to Shedd today - got home...

velaksap, are you the person in the Eugene area I had a bit of email correspondence with? I just got a Vendetta myself. I've only done 100 miles on it so far but I'm not having any trouble with the seat - I have the Ventist pad also. The bike is a speed demon for sure. I was already pretty well...

I just installed a 100mm extension on my Silvio 1.0 which brings the bars down a bit making for a more comfortable position. I rode it 70 miles this weekend and, while not as comfortable as my Silvio 2.0, it wasn't bad. I had a bit of recumbutt at the 55 mile mark and I do notice the top of the...