trapdoor2
Zen MBB Master
Not a good day to ride (rain), but I needed to buy a pair of bottle mounts for the Conversion...so I packed it in the back of the truck and took it to my favorite LBS, http://trailheadinc.net/. These guys helped me so much when I was buying small parts to get it up and running that I thought they deserved to see what they had helped create. Much fun ensued.
In short, the Saturday crew went nuts over the Cruzbike Conversion. Everybody got to sit on it, they took pictures, wanted to know everything about it and generally thought it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. They're a bunch of young kids (20's) and obviously open-minded about such things. I got 'em watching the Silvio video on the shop PC and they were very impressed.
They made me promise to bring it back when they could try it out (if it ever stops raining here). That should be a hoot! One of the guys just couldn't leave it alone and was talking to himself about donor bike frames as I left. I may have started an infection. :lol:
After I left, I wandered down to another LBS just down the road (and another source for parts). This is the "bike junk shop" and the guy has been in the business since the mid '70's. He is the only shop in town that regularly carries recumbents (SUN/EZ). Oddly, he was not very enthusiastic about it. He sat on it and just sort of went "hmmmm". Ah well, some get it, some don't!
I did get a few miles in yesterday afternoon and was chased down by another recumbent rider (on a SUN LWB)...who decided he would follow me and tell me his life story.
After I'd had enough of that, I told him I needed to get my exercise in and cranked up the ol' legs. He tried to keep up for a few hundred yards... My truck was only 5mi away; I had loaded up and was just about to get in and go home when he pulled up and asked me what kind of motor I had hidden in that weird bike. He said he saw 23mph on his computer while I was rapidly dwindling in the distance. I suspect his computer hasn't been calibrated properly...OTOH, I was motivated to get out of there.
In short, the Saturday crew went nuts over the Cruzbike Conversion. Everybody got to sit on it, they took pictures, wanted to know everything about it and generally thought it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. They're a bunch of young kids (20's) and obviously open-minded about such things. I got 'em watching the Silvio video on the shop PC and they were very impressed.
They made me promise to bring it back when they could try it out (if it ever stops raining here). That should be a hoot! One of the guys just couldn't leave it alone and was talking to himself about donor bike frames as I left. I may have started an infection. :lol:
After I left, I wandered down to another LBS just down the road (and another source for parts). This is the "bike junk shop" and the guy has been in the business since the mid '70's. He is the only shop in town that regularly carries recumbents (SUN/EZ). Oddly, he was not very enthusiastic about it. He sat on it and just sort of went "hmmmm". Ah well, some get it, some don't!
I did get a few miles in yesterday afternoon and was chased down by another recumbent rider (on a SUN LWB)...who decided he would follow me and tell me his life story.
After I'd had enough of that, I told him I needed to get my exercise in and cranked up the ol' legs. He tried to keep up for a few hundred yards... My truck was only 5mi away; I had loaded up and was just about to get in and go home when he pulled up and asked me what kind of motor I had hidden in that weird bike. He said he saw 23mph on his computer while I was rapidly dwindling in the distance. I suspect his computer hasn't been calibrated properly...OTOH, I was motivated to get out of there. 
