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Kids like my bikes. When I get on and off, people want to talk sometimes. A recumbent is so rare that they do not notice that the Silvio is FWD MBB. Only those who think the Grasshopper is normal notice that. My favourite reaction ever? Somebody shouted "Get back to the 1930s, you freak!"...

I switch between Grasshopper and Silvio a lot. No problem. They have similar seat height, BB height and seat angle. I think this helps. I prefer the Silvio. I feel more connected to the Silvio than I do to the Grasshopper. I feel more connected to the Silvio than I used to. My...

Do the solid-heads notice any effect on the steering? How well do these tyres stick to a wet road? Suz - you could have something fixed to the rim-brake place. Not a plate but a brush that sticks out in front and slides along the road like a cow-catcher.

Maybe a good idea to hit it with something. I envisage something a bit like a hammer, but with a head made of some sort of black bendy stuff. Maybe ratz knows the technical term.

I have not the slightest chance of beating any of you record-breakers, except maybe in the slalom. But I would need my own modified Silvio and no other species of Cruzbike. This bike pirouettes like dancer. This bike has spent most of its life in the traffic jams and parks of the London...

That would be enormous schadenfreude for the DF people. Whose ego is destroyed now? Though you could fly, did you?

An utterly fascinating subject. And when you leave your DF in the shed and start looking for a 'bent you find out about the enormous variety of designs and how they handle differently. "Racer or MTB?" They both look the same to me, now that I am too busy comparing the Silvio with its cut...

No hope for me then, even on a carbon Zockra-clone. Not a stick-bike, but stick-legs.

Drivers do this move on me a lot. They hesitate. Sometimes they stop. I always expect them not to. I go round them. I think they underestimate the speed of a cyclist. Maybe 40mph is too fast. If you can, you want to. I can - downhill. I did, on a road in outer London that looked a bit...

I suspect that on the Furai you press your back hard into the seat, as I do on my Grasshopper. This seems like the natural, intuitive thing to do. I had to unlearn it for the Silvio. I used to commute on the Grasshopper. I remember when I first graduated to the Silvio. There is a huge...

If you look at a cross-section of a wheel you see there is space inside. The wheel is a torus. You could put some sort of refrigeration system in there.

Somebody else gets hacksaw-happy. It is getting fashionable. What do you call a shortened Cruzbike? A chopper? Just beware of shavings. I used to have big trouble getting my Silvio away from a standing start. I was pushing my back into the seat, as I do on my Grasshopper. On the Silvio I...

In town, when in traffic jams or in the park etc, sitting up helps balance in the very tight turns. Also, the crowds and dogs tend to stand aside when there are flames coming out of the tyres.

I thought my Silvio was better behaved after I truncated it.

Once you get one the feeling persists. And you assume correctly.

And you go out to bat, and you bat until you are out, at which time you come in again.

Many years ago my back tyre exploded with a huge bang. There was a long gash. No idea why. I was going downhill fast, and then went into a traffic jam, which meant I was going slow when it blew. Had it gone slightly earlier, I would have been on a sticky wicket.

The results are on the website. I am Simon Cramp, by the way. Good name for a cyclist. I went quicker than I usually do, although it did not feel any faster. Something about the psychology of being in an actual race. Well, I did it, and at least I was not the slowest. We are all barmy.

When a rider T-bones a car... That rider was me. Totally my fault. That is how I got the elbow, but what was worse was feeling like a Nobel prizewinning dork. Hydraulic disk-brakes are brilliant. As long as you use them.

Still no info available on their website. I await in eager anticipation.