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Help help help! If I had tried really hard I might have been able to bend this more. Robert, do you have any more of these? Or if I am going to bee this klutzy, maybe I need two of them. Pleae PM me for email and shipping addresses. -Dan

I couldn't reach the forums today due to IP ban, but before I got too excited I changed my ZenMate VPN location from USA to Hong Kong. Everything appears to work fine now. Someone must have been using ZenMate to do Evil Things. -Dan

Silvio 1.0 pivot clamp threads are gone. Things to try: 1. Longer bolt with nut and nylon washer (attempt to compensate for slope) - no modification to clamp (FAIL) Result: bent bolt (stainless!) and no clamping force anyway 1a. Longer bolt with nut and wedge washer (make/buy) 2...

Did I miss a memo? Does this new term "Dynamic Boom" mean someone decided the expression "Moving Bottom Bracket" was too scary for in-house use? I prefer the more descriptive MBB to meaningless market-speak. -Dan

The old forum had a nice feature that would highlight all updated threads in all forums. Will that ever be re-implemented, or does "Alerts" serve that purpose now? -Dan

After a year and a half gaining MBB/FWD confidence riding my Cannondale conversion, I finally came across a Silvio 1.0 with my name on it. I've only been on it about a hundred miles so far (including twenty-five miles on the first day, in heavy bike traffic at the Tour de Palm Springs), and...

Thanks to Rose City Recumbents in Portland OR, I was able to test ride a Silvio on a recent visit. I didn't stay out long enough to get completely used to the improved hand position (or the brifters I was using for the first time ever), but, oh my, the improvement of the lighter front end...

The Angletech Aeropod ($160 The Angletech Aeropod ($160 usd new - yikes) fits perfectly and will hold a cat and a litter of kittens with room left over for a two-liter water bladder and your jacket. -Dan

Does this sound familiar to anybody? I ride a used conversion kit, and I started out like everybody else, with my hands up high and doing push-only on the grips. Then I graduated to pulling on alternate grips under climbing or sprinting, but I have not heard anybody else describe my next...

Check out the extremely low stepover height and the bellied downtube that reminds me of a Quest. There's one for sale in Phoenix craigslist right now. (http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/bik/4307747838.html) That one looks like a quill stem though...

I am the third or fourth owner of a converted mountain bike. When I bought it, it looked like this: Once I determined that I was able to ride the beast, I started thinking of ways I would like to make it more my own. Here are the things I didn't like: 1) The seating was more...

My first Cruzbike is a conversion kit on a dual-suspension mountain bike (Cannondale Super V). I rode upright bikes until about six years ago when I went recumbent. I ride a variety of recumbent geometries but no high-racers and no suspensions. My normal cadence is in the high 80s and low 90s...

I failed to score any decent SPD/platforms at the GABA swap meet this weekend, so I pulled some crappy Nashbar ones out of my junk bin, stuck them on my Cannondale SuperV conversion, and went out and rode 45 miles. I should have done this weeks ago. I can't say I hadn't realized how much...

I've been searching the site without success for a couple weeks now for a picture of handlebars that do what the Quest 3.0 currently in the For Sale forum does, and that's the first one I've seen. I've been wanting to lower the bars on my converted Cannondale Super-V to improve forward...