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What about @tiltmaniac ?

It is in my Grasshopper's paint.

I bought a frame but then I wished I had got a whole bike. You can immediately start riding it and getting the boom length right etc. You can replace the bits at your leisure.

Interesting to see the comparison. Did you change the boom length? Is it harder to lean forward or get on and off, now the bars are closer to your guts?

Bicycle engineering is interesting because it is so complicated. All that rake and trail stuff about which there is no definitive answer. And the rider is part of the machine, so there is bio-mechanics. Then the wheel-builders say that the wheels are the most important bits, and start arguing...

All those different substances. The only one it does not have is steel, which is my favourite one.

Carbon, Al, Ti, carbon with Ti in it. Bloody nuisance for the manufacturer. No wonder they changed the design.

What about the front?

How heavy is a Nuvinci? It might make the steering go funny.

What happens inside the brain of a Cruzbike owner? I never thought about modifying a DF. Just get the saddle the right height. You know right away how high you want it. It never occurred to me to modify the Grasshopper, and we have been through a lot together. But everybody's messing with...

I think @LarryOz is right. Getting on and off a S or V might be a pain, literally. You may find that you do not want to put your feet down. This leads to risk taking at roundabouts and traffic lights. This happened to me. Not a serious back injury, but I pulled something. Riding the Silvio...

Bloke walks into a bike shop. "Get me a carbon frame and make it snappy." I suppose carbon is alright for the stays of a Silvio. I hope.

Disraeli gears will never work as well as IGH. I cannot put IGH on my Silvio but I have XX1, because at least that frees me from the nightmare of double chainwheels. And I have a friction shifter because I just know that indexing would not work properly. I have hydro because rim brakes are...

This is a depressing thread for someone who has COPD. In my case literally. Momentum-method is not going to work. I have to pace myself. I get dropped. The quicker they go over the hill the less time I have looking at their bum. I drop them on the way down. I have achieved 45mph on the way...

Goldilocks. They were all either as tiny as the Topeak or so big they would drag on the ground. I wish I could have got the Easy Reacher a bit higher. But I think these are just right. They are Restrap. Why did I bother in the first place? There is nothing wrong with the Grasshopper, with...

They ask me how much it cost and I tell them. They say "Blimey, you could have got a car for that money!" Damn. If only I had known.

Cruzbike was invented in Oz.

I always try not to fall off, but falling off a 'bent is preferable to falling off a DF. But the chorus is well rehearsed. Altogether now - "Oo, that thing does not look safe to me." Judging by what happened to your tyres I am surprised that your wheels are not bent. I wish you a speedy...

Boris says stuff. It is the Home Office you have to worry about.

Now to choose the bags.