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That's what happens when you rely on the, "Government Positioning System"! :lol: -Steve

I guess I could call what I do, on long steep grades, 'whistling'.... -But it mostly resembles wheezing. :( -Steve

I'd trade a violin for it...but I already sold it. Lucky I'm not an airline: I don't 'double-book' my instruments.... -Steve

I switched to 170mm cranks on my Sofrider. As you know, the handlebars differ between the Freerider and the Sofrider. I had to readjust the handlebar, the length of the boom and the angle of the stem (part that the handlebar bolts to), to clear my knees. You may or may not have to adjust your...

The Silvio generates a draftable slipstream? Cool. It's all part of the fun, owning a rare thoroughbred. :D So, unless you suck down coffee like I do, your Silvio is getting about 55 miles-to-a-cup-of-coffee. Now, that's impressive. :!:

Very slow for me today; just the cruzbike domain. - using iMac; firefox and/or safari browsers. It's 74F...cloudless...calm. I'm so outta here! :D -steve

Nice photos, story, & ride. Nice Okume 'yak! Is it a Chesapeake Light Craft kit? ;) -Steve

Yup, thank you everyone, thank you. These funny unicycles-with-a-training-wheel are so cool. :lol: -Steve

Fun with quotes! :twisted: You're having way too much fun, Mark! :) -Steve

This afternoon, I returned from my usual 20-mile ride to the base of the gravel driveway, stopped at the mailbox and stuffed the mail into my jersey. From a dead stop, with the chain on the big 52-tooth front ring and in 2nd gear, I took off as fast -and as strongly- as I could and made a dash...

Yes...but: He's referring to the good ol' standard diamond-framed rear-wheel-drive safety bicycle. He was not referring to the bicycle design we ride, the torsion-beam-framed front-wheel-drive recumbent bicycle. I rotated my tyres. The rear tyre is now mounted on the front drive wheel. Right...

Re: Some more ideas, from another newbie If you watch old race footage, you'll see that most riders leaned through turns without hanging off, throwing a knee out or the like. Mike "the bike" Hailwood won the Isle of Man many times, and had an upright riding style. This was due to the limits on...

Check spoke tension: I tap them and listen to them ring. A loose spoke will sound dull when tapped; or will ring at a lower pitch than the other spokes if it is only a little loose. Actually, my first and best guess is the wheel bearings. Make sure they're clean, greased and properly adjusted...

Aw, c'mon guys! I'll wear the stock tires out before replacing them. They've already been rotated, as the front was developing a noticeably flat profile. That's with about a thousand miles of wear. Have you run knobbies on the street? Can you say, 'noisy'? Not for me: you may love it; you can...

That long, ancient thread over on BentRiderOnLine was a blast to read! Very informative, on several levels. Well-worth the investment in time to read. I'm almost tempted to mount knobby tyres on my Sofrider V1! It can climb anything the wheel will will grip; my gravel driveway is unclimbable...

Thanks for the SRAM derailleur tip! The last bottom bracket I worked on, forty years ago, was my Sears 10-speed. It had adjustable ball-bearings throughout. This was all new to me, this cartridge-bearing stuff. Here's a fantastic on-line resource...

Hi, Hotdog- I hope you're feeling better, by now. Of all the two-wheeled contraptions I've crashed on, the recumbent was the least worst. Like you, the bike was a bit scratched; the most damage was a bent front chain ring, which was easily un-bent. Unlike you, my recumbent crash was caused...

My brother in-law was nice enough -incredibly generous- to give me an almost new Bontrager triple steel chain ring, hollow axle, English thread, bottom-bracket/alloy crank arm set! All right! Now, I need your help. -Edit! (Gee, what a dummy....)- The bicycle I'm working on is my stock...

Hi, xkred27: I bought my Sofrider about a year ago, just on the strength of the obvious engineering advantages as compared to other, lesser recumbent designs. After learning to ride it well enough to keep out of the way of fossil-fueled traffic, I've had problems with cracked lips: all that...

I'm extremely impressed with the NuVinci transmission. It makes obsolete all discussions concerning ... all other transmissions, especially discussions concerning optimum gear ratios, number of chain rings, deraileur cage length and so on. The only debatable points left, in favour of standard...