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K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid. That's what I say to myself... please do not take it personally! Offering packs of 1/4" closed-cell foam, cut to shape, is an elegant solution, for the do-it-yourself enthusiast. What the consumer would do with the foam is craft a wedge to fit...

Nanda Holz' Proposed Seat Mods My seats never stay stock for long. You guys have workable ideas, incorporating piano hinges, beefier layups in stock seat pans, welded-up seat tube mounts, bolts, crosstubes and so on. All that stuff will work and work well. I can see that it will...

More Cruzing Tips The open palms technique accomplishes at least two things. Most importantly, you can't grip the handlebars too strongly, when you're using open palms -no death grip. Almost as importantly, the open palms technique teaches you to use your triceps, which are much stronger...

Bikes? After I bought my Sofrider, well, the Sofrider is my bike. I've rebuilt a friend's mixte 10-speed D.F. and test-rode it, and that's the sum-total of my post-Sofrider purchase, HPV, non-FWD MBB experience. My impression of the experience? Bicycles are fun; wow, these D.F...

Ingenious! A few suggestions: -Whip the ends of your wooden dowel, to eliminate any tendency of the wide-grained softwood bar to split . You know, 'whipping' as in wrapping the ends with lengths of stout twine.... -Drill through the end of the fish-mouthed/fitted pole end, thread a...

Looking Better and Better! You're thinking of adding wheel covers, right? If not, you ought to.... I used to bake for a living and I still bake our bread. We're having pizza tonight, for example, with scratch-made dough. To make the starter, I use my wire whisk to whip together...

Front Triangle; Power Transmission Thanks, Mr. Burton and thank you, Mr. Holz! ?My personal experience in the recumbent bicycle world is limited to my bike, a Sofrider V1, the only recumbent that I've ever ridden. Ironically, or maybe fortunately, my experience as a motorcycle test...

Future Bike: I was hoping that you would write about your experiences on RWD recumbents, Mr. Torgersen. As for my future bike? I'm very lucky to be able to afford the parts that keep my Sofrider on the road: I cannot afford any Vendetta, let alone any other bike. Perhaps some...

The, "standard bike V. recumbent thread" is interesting and fun, but it's mostly about apples V. oranges. My contribution is, I think, at least as interesting: Cruzbike recumbents are, in my experience, superior to other recumbents. I know, Cruzbike makes recumbents and only...

Cradle. I use my trainer, which clamps onto the front-wheel's skewer ends, to hold my bike for general servicing. I use the wooden cradle I built, which both holds the bikes's rear axle and supports the bottom of the bike, to hold my bike for front-end service. What I guess I'm...

CargoCruz My concept differs radically from yours, Mr. Holz! Your initial concept, sketched atop a Silvio V1, seems too complex to me. In my opinion, Cruzbike frames are well engineered. Logically, as the frames are already built and field-tested... I'd mount my load-carrying...

Aero! Here's an idea I stole from a record-breaking European custom carbonfibre low rider.... You guys -people with working/normal memories- may remember that it set a record indoors, in a velodrome, was unfaired and that the rider was male. The controversy about the record was due...

We Ride Recumbents.... Well, we do, right? How about considering this: work up the Maria/vendetta/RAAM/3000MilestoaCure.com idea -for display on the front. Most of us ride our bikes with our backs, see, and the logo printed on the back of a T-shirt would be masked by our seat...

Nice Build! Question... ? -Do you use a rearview mirror? With your reclined seat, it takes a while to lift your head off of your headrest to look over your shoulder. Just pointing this out. -Steve

This Thread -Is suddenly way more "interesting" -thanks to the cage driver that taco'd Mr. Winn's V, not to mention rearranging his life! I realise that the Vendetta is not for everyone, so, as public service, allow me to offer my garage as the new home for your unwanted, unloved...

Climbing in a Reclined Seat Sitting up in a reclined seat anchors your rear into the 'bucket' of the seat, or, that spot where the back of the seat pan joins the front. Sitting up concentrates the weight of your upper body into the 'bucket', further planting you solidly into the seat...

You Didn't Ask -so take this for what it's worth. There is no substitute for riding on the road. On your Cruzbike, your body and bike work together, interacting with the road. Now, I use my bike on the trainer a lot. Since it's been stormy a lot more than usual lately, I've...

Innovation -is the other half of the coin, in racing. Formula rules enforce a fair racing environment, on standardised racing platforms... while stifling innovation. On the other hand, formula rules encourage teams to exploit loopholes in the rules and, of course, for teams to cheat...

Racing and Bike Configuration Tiggertoo asked, "I think a question for the future of cycle racing is should bike races be confined to having all racers riding standards or all riding recumbents and should any resulting records be recognised as a separate category?" Different bikes are...

These Posts Explain a LOT! Thank you, all. Until very recently, I was running a three year old version of OS X on my SEVEN year old iMac. It's a miracle that this thing runs at all and it impresses me that this iMac runs the newer Snow Leopard - OS X 10.6.8 I recently installed as...