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Forgive me if I missed it, as I've followed all the threads on every topic posted on this forum -since the beginning of time- and even double-checked, but I just can't find any information about trainer skewers that fit the Vendetta front/drive wheel. There's a picture of a few Vendettas in...

Do you remember that Vendetta 1.5 that Mr. Van Haaften sold? Oh wait, this is the thread. Never mind. Well, he packed it very snugly and it arrived intact. Aside from a very few niggles due to either age or the bike Gods, it's ready to troll -er- ROLL on my local roads. My vast Cruzbike...

Climbing hills, interval training, learning to involve your upper body and the other techniques discussed in this thread are useful: And I use them. The most fun I have on my bike is chasing down the bicyclists I find on our local country roads and, hopefully, passing them. Almost as fun is...

Bees don't like to be swatted out of the air with your chest. Stop it. I know, because I don't know any better: I swatted one with my chest, coming home after work. The bee objected, as bees do, by stinging me. The next day, coming home from work, I thought,"Right about here is where... OWW!" A...

Awesome. . . . Just . . . I can't even... . . . Awesome.

The head rest on the 18 degree reclined seat that I built for my Sofrider is padded with an old, much-patched but still air-tight bicycle tyre inner tube. Every other padding material I tried for the neck-rest/head/rest transmitted too much vibration. Now, see, I'm an old guy and need my...

Pinching pennies, I saved up for my 1UP USA trainer, about four years ago. Every so often, I make sure that the bolts are tight and the friction drum is adjusted. It's quiet, it works with my Sofrider, it worked on a couple of DF bikes and it has never let me down. It's living up to it's...

Any modern time-trial helmet design, one that resembles a jelly bean, will work better with a recumbent. They look right to my eye, and more importantly, both wind-tunnel numbers and track numbers confirm that they're good helmets for speed. They are expensive, so, any time trial helmet would...

Things to try: -Lower your tire pressure. Try to run them low enough for the extra traction but not so low that bumps pinch-flat your tires. -Sit up in your seat. This will shift your center of gravity forwards, putting more weight on the front wheel. -Depending on how smooth your pedaling style...

This is an old thread! The broken hockey stick bike still looks like it's a comfortable, relatively fast commuter. Here is a thought...: That big hub would be useful as a windbreak if it were used as the FRD transmission in a low racer. The bike would be very long and it would not turn very well...

Beautiful, intelligent design. I love it! -Were you inspired by conformal fuel tanks? -Keeping heavy things close to the center of mass is very smart.

Ride like you mean it, pretend that you respect one another and repeat.

Ride like you mean it, enjoy yourself and pretend that you respect one another.

Effective surface area of the contact patch increases with the depth of the water and is aided by flat-spotting/wear of the tread, combined with speed.

Non-treaded bicycle tyres work best ... until they don't. Advantage: more surface area to wear, so they tend to last longer than a similar treaded tyre. Disadvantage: more surface area, so the slick both heats up slower and retains heat better than would a similar treaded tyre. Advantage: less...

Rocking the bike from side to side does free up some energy that you'd normally use for steering the bike, when climbing/sprinting. Rocking the bike allows the lean of the bike to counter the steering forces and complements the input of your shoulders/upper body. The stiffer the chassis of the...

Here's one of my more lucid explanations of how I make power happen on my 'mysterious' Sofrider -answering a sincere question posed by BROL member, 'Steamer': ----- How? This is how, for me, on my bike: The right leg pushes; -the right leg can simultaneously push to the right, offsetting its...

Shifters are a personal preference, aren't they? I recognize those grips on the Walmart GMC Denali... the grips on the twist shifters, I mean. Those came stock on the Sofrider V1 I have, and were the first mechanically indexed shifter I ever used on the first recumbent bike I ever rode. They...

"Where is everybody?" -Third stone from the Sun, man!

It's not always about ignorance. The dominant bicycling fraternity/tribe on the road is the UCI-legal race bike. Vendettas in particular are a very, very tiny minority. The facts that he laughed and let you 'win' matters to no one... because he has a winner in his legal bike. Except, we all know...