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I also agree with Jason. It is too easy to push the seat or pull the bars and push forwards as the pedal points upwards. Natural thing to do. Concentrate on pushing down as your pedal points forwards.

My Silvio is less aero than my Grasshopper.

It was an incredible palaver getting mudguards on, but I absolutely insist on having mudguards. Those tyres are too big to fit, and I am not messing with the mudguards again. Any tyres will eventually wear to the point of going bang if you do not watch them. Lesson. I used to occasionally...

Punctures are all I worry about. When I get them I get them good.

Would not have done me any good on Wednesday.

Which tyres? Rubino or GP? It was GP that nearly assassinated me.

My Silvio is now officially named Bill the Bastard.

You crashed worse than I did. My heel-clips do not sprain my ankles. Hope you and the bike recover quickly.

I can be Australian, if that helps. Good on ya, cobber!

I got the tyres in January, I always pumped them hard, and if they were rubbing I would have heard it. I guess I will never know. I think I was lucky. Now I will keep my tyres reasonable.

Congrats on getting to work. I hope you got there on time. Now you have to get it home again. Commuting teaches you how to handle the bike.

Synchronised bursting is a talent I wish I did not have. Sometimes a talent can be a curse. I got peeled, but nothing worse. When I got up I looked along the road but could not see any tyre-bursting objects. The tyre-wear looks really weird. The tread looks okay, but the sidewall has...

I looked at my speedo. 27mph. At that moment both tyres went bang. I think I was braking before I hit the road, but I left some skin there. I went onto the wrong side of the road. Lucky there was no cars coming. Front tyre is badly worn, and now has a small tear. Continental GP4000S, 1500...

If I was at the North Pole I would get a tiltmaniac device with skids on it.

So my Silvio has more Ti in it than I thought. Actually, now it has Ti pulleys.

The wheel stayed in one piece. Lucky. I think carbon is scary. How much are the Silvio's carbon components stressed?

Speed is the new rider's enemy. Unwrap your fingers from the death grip and wrap them round the brake levers. Front wheel spin is the new rider's other enemy. When I first started commuting on my Silvio I tried to avoid stopping. At all. This was made easier by the fact that my brakes hardly...

When my Silvio broke Cruzbike sent me a replacement. All I had to pay was the shipping cost. That break looks unusual to me.

So benphyr picks up rubbish and makes good use of it. You see all sorts riding Cruzbikes. Even Wombles.

My friction shifter. I got a chainring-and-cog pair. The chainring one was a friction shifter but it had a really small lever-throw, about a right-angle, so it did not pull enough slack. The cog one had built-in clicks, for 10sp. I took them to bits and combined them. They were surprisingly...