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When my short legged brother in law visited, i changed my vendetta 1.5's boom length but marked the old position. When i refitted it back afterwards, i checked the heel to pedal fit and found my existing position was much longer than it would be for my heel toreach the pedal with a straight...

Hi, My brother in law's legs are way too short for my medium vendetta. Anyone have a silvio 2 or s20, or small vendetta in / near Melbourne, Australia and willing to help arrange a test ride? Andrew has four fused vertebrae and can't ride his DF more than an hour without a break. He's a very...

Does anyone have access to a vendetta 1.5 frame and a new vendetta or silvio carbon seat? I'm interested too find out how close a fit the new carbon seat would be on my vendetta 1.5 as the weight savings would be about 750grams. I dont mind if i have to shim it with foam or filler, or some...

I was looking for cheap, simple, light and removable aero cleanups to the bike. Yes a fairing blah blah, but that's a big project and makes the bike almost impossible to put in a car. The vendetta boom hits the air, then some bits of cable and the hole under the boom, then the head tube, then...

Just a short and wordy post to celebrate riding my vendetta, it's fun! living at the top of a small hill, I have a very nice and quick ride to work, just a couple of km. It is of course much too short to justify riding the vendetta, but I have little spare time so I ride it just to keep my...

I do enjoy my vendetta, and don't ride it nearly enough to justify thinking about how it could be a more efficient bike. Nevertheless, I keep having ideas about how to improve on the vendetta. I don't have enough spare time or skills to execute them, but thought they might entertain the...

Just thought I'd share a simple improvement to my vendetta. I wanted to carry a bag to at least be able to carry a few things on the V. I do have a little tiny triangle bag inside the seatstay triangle for spare tube, patch kit and tire levers, but wanted more room for phone, wallet...

Note, I fitted the seat Note, I fitted the seat bracket to the top tube with drilled and tapped M6 holes, not the awful looking original cruzbike kit solution of two big radiator hose clamps (hence why they are not there!).

My newly acquired Vendetta 1.5 is to be my daily driver to work (23km), and if I am to fully replace the heavy conversion, I need fenders to deal with the wet days. With fenders and a fairing, my heavy cruz conversion is great even in a downpour! I found that the SKS raceblade long fenders...

My conversion has gotten heavier - I added a fairing. But the fairing is GREAT for keeping more than half of me dry in wet weather, even really pouring rain my legs only get a little damp. No noise, the mountings I made are working great. Crosswinds are no problem. I can feel a little tugging...

your front suspension seems your front suspension seems to be completely compressed. Is it pumped up?

I saw this picture in an old issue (volume 9 no. 2) of the journal of Human Power (IHPVA).Check out that front chainring! I guess the front tube isn't telescoping. If it was, wouldn't that be prior art to the Cruzbike patents? In some ways I like the simple frame design. Not sure if there...

The frankenbike(tm) :-) has done a little over 1000km of commuting since conversion in late may. First commute was 24th of may. A few weeks in i adjusted the seat pan to lift the front edge in line with john t's recommendations on recum-but. Since then it's been very comfortable and (touch...

Although they are really too expensive to use as donor frames, I think these two perhaps slightly Brompton-inspired small (20 inch) frames could make interesting conversion projects. They are made by spinburn, who also seem to make the performer brand recumbent frames. Both have a folding rear...

My Conversion tips: 1. reversed stem to get handlebars away from my knees 2. bottom brack plugs to keep dirt out of old BB shell 3. basic backpack mounting to the seat Reversed stem I was struggling to get enough clearance for my knees - I was occasionally touching the bottoms of...

My first post, here goes! The conversion kit is ordered and I found a donor. It's ugly (the original owner seems to have had an interesting concept with the seatpost mounting!) and probably will be a little heavy (16kg at the moment), but the junk components will be replaced by some...