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You're Spot-On, Dan! Recumbents pick up speed very quickly; I can only imagine how much quicker your Vendetta is than my Sofrider. The public roads I ride on are not race courses. They don't have marshals on every corner to help keep danger in check. There are no course workers out...

Great report, thanks for Great report, thanks for sharing your experiences.... Watch yourself on those blind curves: that's not a racetrack you're riding on, despite all the peer pressure insisting otherwise. (I know you know this.) ----

I've had my Sofrider V1 for a I've had my Sofrider V1 for a while: long enough to get accustomed to the moving bottom bracket. My riding routes are all very hilly, with rare flat roads, none longer than a mile. When I'm in good shape at the end of the Fall, my average speed is a...

I use Nashbar-brand 26" I use Nashbar-brand 26" slicks. I buy one on sale every few years and rotate the tires front-to-back, throwing out the worn one. They're heavy tires, so they take a while to accellerate and they are both narrower and lower-profile than the stock Kendas, so they...

Starting on an Incline DavidPaul, starting on an incline with your Sofrider (any recumbent bicycle) is different than with a diamond-frame bicycle. You knew that! Right-handed people, mounted on their D.F. bikes, start pedaling uphill from a stop by pushing off the ground with...

Brakin' the Sofrider Welcome, DavidPaul. I routinely loft the rear wheel ("stoppie") off of the tarmac, when brake my Sofrider V1 to a stop. For fun. It's good practice for me too, but then I'm used to these sort of shenannigans. The first time I performed a stoppie on...

Hmmm... a fabric Hmmm... a fabric streamliner... or, a zeppelin with a composite nose. As you may or may not know, one of my sporting hobbies is kayaking. The F40 streamliner concept looks like a sort of skin-on-frame construction. Very much like the way that the original Inuit built...

As you lean forward out of As you lean forward out of the reclined position to engage your entire body in the work to power up hills, you get the added benefit of putting more of your weight over the front, driven wheel. For Gary ("Cobra GT"): How far you raise out of your recline...

Hi Ms. 'U.K.!'  Wheel spin Hi Ms. 'U.K.!' Wheel spin can be controlled in many different ways. -Tyre pressure: If you lower the tyre pressure a few pounds, the footprint of the wheel on the road will tend to conform to the irregularites in the surface of the tarmac, resulting in...

The set up: The weather is beautiful here. Calm. Clear. 85F. this morning and, it being Sunday, just Church traffic, out-and-about. Oh, and with the T.D.F. (Tour de France) live coverage, the Club riders were at home. Irresistable! So, I went out for a quick ride: quick...

Well-Behaved! -and so is the dog. The fairing looks nice! Very stylish, to my eye. But I'm prejudiced... I test-rode for Vetter, way back in the last century and the fairing on the Sigma reminds me, strongly, of the many prototype Quicksilver fairings I rode behind...

"Is it as easy to start "Is it as easy to start riding as a conventional bike?" -In my experience, the learning curve is the same: I learned to ride a conventional bike when I was a little kid, in an afternoon. At first, wobbling all over the place and finally (mostly) pedaling in the...

Not for me, thank you very much! When my back, "goes out" -I can hardly sit up straight or walk well or even move very quickly. One of the few things I can do when that happens, thankfully, is ride my Sofrider... especially if I take extra care to steer around the more jarring pavement...

This was going to be a quick ride, hopefully quick enough to beat the rain that the radar showed was heading my way. With that mindset, off I went for about an hour's fast ride. Or so I thought. Passing me on the other side of the country lane was a short-wheelbase recumbent. The normal sort of...

-going uphill, against the wind. Of course, I had a slight advantage. My bike is a Cruzbike V1, modified with a 52-42-30 triple chainring.... His bike was a recumbent tricycle, he was carrying panniers and he was at least as old as me. ---- On the same ride, I was slowing for the blind...

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My bike is a V1 Cruzbike Sofrider, it is essentially stock. The title is misleading, since I live in Lenoir City, TN. -But Knoxville is the closest metropolis.

I know SpamBots can't read, but you Humans can, so: Do you sell Spam? If so, will you also, "fedex delivery" a can of same? Just asking. :twisted:

Here's what I found out about cycling on the California freeway system. (Hwy. 101 is a freeway!): ----- Q Can I ride my bicycle on the freeway? A. Of the more than 4,000 miles of freeways in California, about 1,000 miles are open to bicyclists. These open sections are usually in rural...

Re:You Are Not the Only One. Yes, I'd read that comic before. The character in the comic left his legs behind, while I'd left my conditioning behind! After all, if I remember correctly, my average speed for that six mile sprint was around 20mph. Very quick, for me! It's coming back though...