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Some people have used Radical Design's Banana Racer bags on the V20 with success. They hang to each side of the frame, under the seat pan. After 27 years on a DF bike, my lower back couldn't take it anymore. I bought a Vendetta frameset on blind faith five years ago and never looked back...

That sounds like a happy garage to me!

Hi all, Eventually, a fully reclined seated start from a dead stop is easy. It is a matter of being in the right gear at a red light (or any stop). For example, I ride a 36/50 front and an 11-28 rear. I have figured out that 36/25 is a good starting off gear. There I am, flying along in my...

That is why I say "if for some ungodly reason..." For me, the proper number seems to be four: an Ibis HD3 to handle the mountain bike duty, a Lynskey Bootleg for gravel adventures, a CB V20 for rip-roaring road rides, and, now that I've fit a proper rack onto my S30, the S30 for everything...

My knees don't like my Vendetta on the trainer much either. But out on the road, no problem.

I totally agree. The V's speed is addictive. Most of my friends who ride are mountain bikers, and they cannot understand how I can possibly enjoy a long road ride, or how I could sometimes choose to go on a long solo ride on the V rather than join them on a mountain bike ride. I've tried to...

I put in 27 years on DF bikes before moving to the Vendetta five years ago because of lower back pain. At 130 pounds, climbing has always been my strength. Was I slower on the V at first when climbing? Definitely. Am I slower on the V when climbing now? Yes, but not by much. Am I faster...

I have one. I still ride and love my yellow v.2, but I put the current front end on it a couple years ago and have all the old front end parts, ready to find homes. After a little clean up, this should be all good to go.

I did re-drill holes further up the seat pan, which not only eliminated brake cable interference, but made spacers unnecessary, and tucked the cages/bottles a little more out of the wind, such as it is. You can just barely see the original holes. Good place for a pump bracket?

@benphyr I'll have to check that out the next time I ride Zwift (the friendly weather of late has made for excellent mtn. biking, so it has been a while for the trainer). My guess is that it does not report power while back-pedaling. That once the forward direction is established, it would...

@benphyr I'd never even thought of that! Apparently it reports power in either direction without adjustments or changes. I imagine that would have been frustrating. (This is my first smart trainer, after years of using a dumb trainer, which wouldn't care which direction it spun).

As I mentioned earlier, I would go with wheel-on if I was setting up a dedicated trainer bike, or leaving my outside bike mounted on the trainer for long stretches due to long, predictable stretches of bad weather. But in Northern California, where the winter weather bounces back and forth...

Being in California, I cannot help you with a test ride, but I will add my testimonial: a stiff lower back sidelined me from riding a DF bike. I took a desperate, blind faith flyer on a new Vendetta six years ago, knowing almost nothing about recumbents (except that my brother called them...

My V20 and S30 work just fine on my Wahoo Snap wheel-on trainer. They worked equally well on my Kurt Kinetic dumb trainer before that, which I used for years. I would move to a wheel-off trainer if I lived where my bike was going to stay there for months at a stretch. But I don't, so it's...

I've never tried the bullhorn style, but here is my setup, for what it's worth. The bars are Genetic Digest flared drop bars, 44cm wide (they come in a 48cm version too). I love them and have them on three CBs. The hand position feels natural, I have no shifting issues, and they are aero...

Tuloose's comments about the Zefal Spy mirrors made me laugh out loud, especially, "They do not scratch unless you try to scratch them." I have them on three CBs and they work just fine. I wrap my bars a few inches past the brake hoods and mount the mirrors over that part of the wrap. They...

If I need to keep the rear wheel on the bike, I can raise the stand high enough to bring the wheel off the ground (though I admit that I've never had to do that). I use caliper brakes, and those are easy to adjust side-to-side. If the wheel is out of true, I take it off and put it on the...

I clamp mine by the boom for everything, including working on the back end. If I am working on the rear wheel specifically, I remove the wheel from the frame. If I am working on the rear half of the frame, I remove the rear wheel anyway for better access, and raise the stand until the rear...

I use Crupi Rhythm cranks. They're meant for BMX bikes, but the chainring tabs happen to be machined to work perfectly with a 110bcd double road ring pairing (I use 36 x 50). The spindle is the 24mm Shimano type, reasonably light weight, and not stupid-expensive. They come in all the short...

I know that the wheel-off trainers are all the rage, but I also know myself well enough to know that I don't want to mess with taking my front wheel off every time rain chases me indoors, then putting it back on when the sun returns. If I lived where I knew my V would stay on the trainer for...