Converting a Silvio 2.0 to a lowracer?

[Bentsoup]

Yeah I know, why? Let's just say I'm interested. I love my Optima Baron but want a FWD Lowracer as well. I know you can have a custom one made too but I'm curious. Has anyone converted one or another model cruzbike into a lowracer?

 

[LarryOz]

Yeah I know, why? Let's just say I'm interested. I love my Optima Baron but want a FWD Lowracer as well. I know you can have a custom one made too but I'm curious. Has anyone converted one or another model cruzbike into a lowracer?

The frames for the Vendetta or Silvio are really too high for a lower-racer. They both are very fast and can be tuned to your body size to be extremely aero, but you just can't get that low on either of them.

 

[3bs]

It’s one of my projects on my list. Yes the list I keep getting distracted from.
Someone has put small wheels on a vendetta, but that is not the same as a low racer.

 

[MrSteve]

[QUOTE=" Has anyone converted one or another model cruzbike into a lowracer?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
I've converted my Sofrider V1:

My Sofrider has two self- built composite seats, one is reclined about 30 degrees and the other is almost 18 degrees reclined.
The seats work with a tall composite chainstay (which elevated the bottom bracket to the same plane as my hips), narrow drop bars and
a fully faired rear wheel.
With 26" wheels, my custom Sofrider is really a high racer, but that's pretty close to what you are asking, right?
With small wheels and huge chainrings, it could be a low racer, but it works very well. No need for small wheels to avoid heel-strike, because FWD eliminates wheel-strike.
How does it work?
My Sofrider, with the low seat and the rear shock deleted/replaced with a solid strut, is faster than my Vendetta on level roads.
However, my Vendetta is crazy-stiff and is much faster uphill than my Sofrider ever could be, so that's what I ride on the road, in the real world.
The Sofrider lives on the indoor trainer.

 

[skankingbiker]

Yes.
I've converted my Sofrider V1:

My Sofrider has two self- built composite seats, one is reclined about 30 degrees and the other is almost 18 degrees reclined.
The seats work with a tall composite chainstay (which elevated the bottom bracket to the same plane as my hips), narrow drop bars and
a fully faired rear wheel.
With 26" wheels, my custom Sofrider is really a high racer, but that's pretty close to what you are asking, right?
With small wheels and huge chainrings, it could be a low racer, but it works very well. No need for small wheels to avoid heel-strike, because FWD eliminates wheel-strike.
How does it work?
My Sofrider, with the low seat and the rear shock deleted/replaced with a solid strut, is faster than my Vendetta on level roads.
However, my Vendetta is crazy-stiff and is much faster uphill than my Sofrider ever could be, so that's what I ride on the road, in the real world.
The Sofrider lives on the indoor trainer.

As the kids say, pics or it didn't happen

 

[bladderhead]

tall composite chainstay

Is that a Cruzbike one or custom made?

 

[MrSteve]

As the kids say, pics or it didn't happen

Its pictures are embedded in the history of this forum. Old news.
It lives on in my world and does not really matter in yours... not really.
In context, back when we ruled on the road, Cruzbike was a new company, just breaking free of the Do It Yourself FWD kit market.
I modified my bike to suit me, just like everyone else did back in the day.
And yes, the tall composite chainstay was a one-off that I built.

The original question asked if a Silvio could be converted.
Probably not without chopping up the perfectly good frame.

 

[ratz]

Original frame very modifiable.

• replace the carbon leaf parts.
• get a short fork
• make or chop the alimnum rear drop stays
• use 20inch wheels

done less work than a lot of builds.

 

[Bentas]

Or not, 16" wheels, no brakes! Quick of the mark, handles the same as with 700 hoops.