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Funny walk? I thought that affliction was acquired through riding diamond-frame rather than 'bent.

Very creative setup indeed. Does the stalk on the slider ever poke you?

The thing this Grasshopper rider did wrong. On entering the turn, if you think you are leaning correctly you will fall inwards. If you think you are about to fall outwards you are leaning correctly. I worked this out because I had a sudden brainwave. I realised that I kept falling inwards...

I just ordered a USB, RojoRacing clamps and a curved slider - more handlebar experiments. Underseat bag. So the poor old Grasshopper is going to have even less to do. But I can't bear to shoot it.

In an emergency you need to apply your brakes guickly. Getting your feet down is quicker on a diamond-frame. Being clipped in hampers the process. I can free my feet from my heel-clips really quickly. This could save you a couple of metres of stopping distance. Or lots of metres if you are...

On the website of the pedals it shows you the correct foot position relative to the pedal axle. My heel-clips are made so my foot is in the same position, and I do not need pins.

When I first got my Silvio it was rally uncomfortable and I kept getting pinch flats. This was cured when I realised that the shock had too much air in it. Later the discomfort and pinch flats came back. The shock was flat. Getting the right amout of air makes a huge difference.

You need brake pad material on the bottoms of your shoes

I would like to have enough space to accommodate it. It is a bike for two people who have had a terrible argument and refuse to look at each other. I imagine them both riding no-hands, so they can sit with their arms folded. Bloody well steer it where you like. I don't bloody care any more.

You could turn it into a tilting trike. For some reason tiltmaniac forgot to mention that. I wanted hydraulic brakes, so I tried Hylex. When I started my handlebar experiments I found the levers did not fit. Therefore I tried Hy-rd and found that they are good.

My mistake. Now I look properly at the pictures I can see it is a conversion-kit. I did not think there were any more of those left. You should keep the chainwheel under the back seat and fix a hub to it and have loads of gears.

Genius! Did you cut the back part of the frame off?

I completely agree with ratz and Charles. Sounds like you are lucky to be able to ride anything other than a wheelchair. A Cruzbike bends in the middle. How can you put a sock on that?

Blimey! Handyman isn't the word. And you are right about the knees. I hate working on floors or laying paving or that sort of thing. So uncomfortable.

When I began my handlebar experiments I got mountain bars, which required shims. One pair of shims forms a cylinder. The cylinder formed by the clamp is longer. When I discovered this I had to get another pair of shims and use the two pairs side by side. This is a Silvio 2.1.

Shame it doesn't fire rockets. You don't like to be bored, do you? You have finished customising this one, so you are getting another one for your trike project, am I right? Where do you find the time?

Radar?

That is the message to send to the UCI when they refuse to record your lap time.

Same colour as the Grasshopper. Is that a Streamer on the front?

In the first video his bike nearly landed on someone else's head. Wear a helmet.