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The seat of my Grasshopper is made in two pieces, bolted together. You could have some kind of suspension between the two halves so they could articulate, with limited freedom of movement, and the bum (I mean butt) part firmly attached to the frame. This would give your upper body as much...

I lift my head. Less confusing for the canals. Also, I think, better balance. Like a monkey's tail. Also, it is easier to see when your eyeballs are not bouncing all over the place.

Wow, still using a Walkman.

It is indeed a beast. When I first got mine I pumped the tyres so hard they burst. Great pump.

I never know with patches. Sometimes they work and sometimes not. I never had any trouble replacing the front wheel of my Silvio, so I always take a spare tube, and patch the old one at home and pump it up leave it for an hour to see if it goes down. It is years since I have had a slow...

In that video, when he gets out of the saddle and sticks his bum in the air, it looks bloody uncomfortable. I am glad I gave up DF. They say it is a technical and scary descent. It looks slower and less scary than the RojoRacing videos. Probably because the camera is following rather than...

I am in awe. At least, I would be in awe, bit he went by so fast I blinked and missed him.

What jond said. Rhinoplasty would not increase turbulence very much. I think it is most important in streamlining to stop turbulence at the back, where the air comes back together. But rhinoplasty would spoil the looks. It is the best looking Morciglio ever. It would be a shame to make it...

When I was 7 years old I crashed my bike and hurt my hand really badly. I started thinking about how it hapenned. I was going downhill and turning. I remembered the front wheel going sideways. Then I remembered that I had been braking. I had locked the front wheel. This is what happens if...

That sounds like slang for something very unpleasant.

So you are not telling, then. which changes the rake and trail.

I think Mike Burrows is thinking about a hairy fairing.

Rubber handlebar grips. And definitely a layer of rubber under the seat. I am talking about a shock. Not an air-shock.

Bloody YES! There is a light at the top of a steep hill. Hardly any driver in my area is a speed-freak. At this point I wish they were. Green, and the driver slams on the gas, squeezes past, and then their foot moves from accelerator to brake. So I have to brake. One of the few places...

You could put it under the seat. The gyro effect would stabilize the bike. And it is a recumbent bike. It could not look much weirder.

Bloody awful. Glad you are not a glorified paperweight. Must have been scary. Am I right in thinking that you can do that with steel, but you must not try it with aluminium? It was a TT rider you overtook on Mt Diablo. They are getting annoyed.

Everyone knows the advantage hub gears have over Disraeli. Having a motor means you can get away from a standing start when you are stuck in a high gear. Also, imagine hurtling downhill into a steep valley at 40mph and turning it on in dynamo mode and still pedalling. Then you can switch it...

How hard would it be for a frame manufacturer to put a thin tube inside the frame, connecting the holes, so you could feed cables through?

Does it matter how stiff it is at the back? It does not transmit the drive. The only load there is the weight of the rider. Absorb the bumps. I would get cheap MTB riser handlebars and cut the straight bits off with a hacksaw and use those. The rest of the frame looks as if they bought it...

I wonder how heavy all that oil-rig looking structure is. Is it plastic? Would they change it if they started manufacturing? Probably. I bet that pisses off all the Flevo owners.