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You have all those bikes, and you are starting a farm? You will need to attach a trailer to your pick-up, with another wooden rack. What does a pregnant bike look like? Are they less aero? Actually, I have just looked at the picture. This is a union between a MBB and a FBB. I am pretty...

UCI are being defensive. Faure did the Hour on a Mochet, at which point the UCI realised that the only way to beat the 'bent is to ban it or legalise drugs

You appear to be in the woods. I imagine the sign means that there are bears in the area. I wonder what bears do, in the woods.

I got a recumbent and I haven't looked back since.

I have ridden in everything, but I don't bother any more. Try getting a Cruzbike away from a standing start on ice.

You put one foot on and push. When the crank is pointing forward, and your leg is fully extended, there is a dead spot, no power. You are now in the process of lifting your other foot, but it has not yet made contact with the pedal. In that time, the bike has to run on momentum. So you have...

That is a big grin. Not a rictus of fear. That looks like a good advert for Cruzbike.

Bad luck, Larry, get well soon. Your stoicism is amazing. I would have given up by now if I had so many spills.

The worst thing you can do, the one the UCI really hate, is to ride a recumbent.

Riding on the sides of conical rollers? I wonder if snilard could do the wall of death?

She broke her chain. She should have had a driveshaft in the chainstay.

There is a standard clamp diameter for road bars. I think it is 22.2 mm. I know that the mountain standard is narrower because I found out to my cost. I got mountain brakes and the levers would not fit on the Cruzbike bars. I got mountain bars. The brakes went on the bars. The bars were...

O such a cavernous space, and so tidy! My shed is like a skin stretched around an enormous sphere of tools, bike parts I bought and tried and decided against, and uncategorised junk. In the middle is a tiny cavity into which the Silvio and the Grasshopper are slotted like posted letters. They...

I agree with snilard. It is my right not to be run over. It is their responsibility to drive carefully. A recumbent on a path gets reactions from pedestrians. When I had a DF, I used to ride it past people and they would hardly notice. Seeing an oncoming 'bent gives some people a hell of a...

The BB in there now is GXP. The axle of the Redline cranks goes into the drive side, but the non drive side hole is too small to admit it. At least they haven't changed the way the pedals fit the cranks. Yet.

The cranks kept coming loose, then they didn't. Then I noticed that the cranks were stiff, and not going round easily. I had to bash the tool with a mallet to loosen I them. I tightened them up to what felt right. Next time I rode it they made horrible noises. When I tightened them a bit...

The only way for me, and I suspect snilard, to do that is to get a trainer.

50 mph with your eyes shut? No wonder you crashed.

15 minutes is a LOOOONG time to wait for a car! Even so, on the A12, a dual carriageway that runs through London and Essex, they sometimes go by at a hell of a lick, and they don't even change lanes. Un-nerving? I should cocoa! Articulated lorries always change lanes. Every one. Even the...

I used to commute on my Grasshopper. Now I do on my Silvio. Nowadays I can get away from a standing start like a slingshot, and no front wheel spin anymore. Getting short cranks has made the steering feel better. I do go slowly over speed bumps though, and I am scared of pot holes, after...