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I have an idea for the handlebar mount, if you don't go the welding route. A very common handlebar clamp size is 31.8mm, and 1.25 inches is 31.75 mm. So maybe you can find a little stubby stem with the 31.8 handlebar clamp and use it "backwards. The part that would normally go over the steering...

This is something that I would be wanting to do if I got a Q. I currently ride my recumbent with a seat angle of about 30 degrees. I just measured the ID of my Performer tiller, and it is only1.125. Bummer! :( That would have been a cool solution, as recumbent tillers are very stout and very...

Regards the handlebar riser stalk elimination, I would try and use a fatter tube for the upper slider that can over the lower tube. It'll be stiffer at the headset junction. Maybe an existing recumbent tiller? What is the outside diameter of the tube coming up from the bottom bracket?

Just wondering, as I'm starting to think about a new recumbent, but already have a lot of components sitting around. Curious also if the front dropouts can support the anti twist washers for a Shimano Nexus or Alfine IGH hub?

Brakes and managing brake forces are problematic for the wheels-on-cranks design. You really don't want your wheel lifting up in the air relative to the bottom bracket when you brake. Kind of like how suspension dives and stink-bugs on a mountain bike.

A couple people here have moded their Quests that way. Making the upper tube of the sliding boom the bigger one would also help, as that's where that tube's pivot is. That's why the newer S and V have the fatter tube at the upper end.

Not a Cruzbiker yet! But a recumbent high-racer rider in Chico. Hope to see you riding!

Careful with smaller discs and hydro! They get HOT! There are horror stories of people boiling their hydro fluid because they just did not get enough cooling on the disc. I know some discs have additional cooling fins inboard from the breaking surface. Is the cylinder larger being on the...

I didn't know that trail was 20 miles! Dang! Might just have to come up from Chico to check it out. Sadly, No Vendetta :( But a recumbent, at least!

Does it become self-standing if the arms are at 10 and 2? If the crank arms are mounted in a "V" instead of at 180 degrees, it becomes self-standing, I think. There is a picture of such a trike in the article Jim Links to. The idea there is to have the "virtual" axle below the axles of...

Measure the outside...... and subtract the wall thickness? Very likely it does not change.

I would try and use a fatter I would try and use a fatter tube for the upper part, and have it slide over the existing lower (orange) tube. It'd be stiffer. The first thing I thought of using was the tiller from my Performer Agenda Midracer. It already has the handle bar clamp built into it...

Awesome! Congratulations on your sweet mod there! I know several forum members have been thinking of doing this. I'm going to have to start looking at a Quest.

Your the first to actually do it! Photos?

With an outer boom tube and a clamp You could very quickly have this bike! Those 2 parts might be pretty easy to make oneself. I want one too!

I wonder if an air bladder between hinged panels would work? Might have to much give though. You could have a little bulb beneath the seat to inflate it with.

Leverage I always assumed the width of Cruzbike was twofold. Firstly to have the leverage to counteract the pedaling forces (after a while, you don't notice this), and secondly, to get your arms out of the way of your knees. That image is just MTB riser bars cut down and used in a way to...

Narrow hamster bars keep your arms in I used to ride cut down flat bars on my Performer. It was very narrow, fast, and sweaty! Vangelo posted this a while back, although some may say getting between the bar ends and brakes is dangerous. For aero, you may not want the bar-ends at all. This...

Curious, but perhaps this is why. The V20 weight seems to be exactly what the bike weighs with the listed components, including some big, chunky pedals! The V2.0 shows a "typical build" weight, BUT, without pedals. Did they average a few? Who knows! It is more than likely that you would...

Not buying anything yet, sorry! I was just thinking about the consolidation of frame parts across the line. I know the Quest and Softrider have some commonality, but the Quest has a the "advantage" of not looking like a converted mountain bike. I find it more asthetically pleasing then the...