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I bought a Bodymax H2Row last year... it looks like prices have gone up a bit since I got mine, though mine was in a post Christmas sale (before anyone had really heard of COVID-19!). I did have both the Concept2 and the Waterrower on my wish list but in the end the prices pushed me to the cheaper B...

My thoughts exactly. I love riding on those icy mornings when I couldn’t walk but I have become too much aware of motons who believe that 4WD, ABS, ESR, and other TLAs mean they can drive as recklessly as before. And in any case it’s not long before a ton of salt gets dumped on the road and transfer...

I bought my Trice QNT blind though not totally uniformed as I had a Hase Kettwiesel bought cheap from eBay to start with. I remember endlessly puzzling over ground clearance, track width (two widths were offered), seat rake etc. In the end and after 14 years I’ve never had a problem with ground clea...

I really liked my PDQ and despite the comment above found it very light (well, I did get a Fuego next...). It had a very short wheelbase (shorter than my Brompton) and managed somehow to be both very responsive and stable at the same time. I could almost manage track stands on it but it didn’t spook...

Gearing: My Trice QNT has a triple, 9 speed cassette, and Sturmey 3 speed. Lots of gears with plenty of range at top and bottom even with 20” wheels all round. Loading: there are other options, most particularly adding in Radical Design seat bags which can add another 25l of storage to your panniers...

I have had a similar experience when my Fuego’s front wheel washed out at speed on a corner. Lost quite a bit of skin and was left with a large, painful lump on my glutes that persisted for a couple of months before it vanished. It took me quite a while to get my confidence back to riding it and ove...

That’s near enough - I was wanting a big wheel kickbike with the capacity for tyres suitable for forest tracks. I wa tempted by the MiBo GS but thought it was a bit heavy. So this is a Kickbike Race Max 28 frame with carbon cycle cross forks, clearance for 700x40C tyres front and back. Much of it ca...

Just to keep the thread going, here’s something I knocked together in the shed...



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Front wheel drive: http://www.eland.org.uk/s327.html "Denman" on Bentrider Online also built a FWD tadpole but it never entered production afaik... pictures of it looked really good though All wheel drive: https://tadpolerider2.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/solovjov-3x3-trike-from-russia-with-l...

I spent/wasted the first few years of recumbent striking worrying about how slowly I was going. Then I realised that it wasn't about the speed, it was about the experience. And then I ditched the Garmin. The little LCD display under my nose was just making me miserable. Best cycling thing I ever did...

Jdsk wrote:Because Marathons weren't available?

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Jonathan

I’ve had a front tyre blow out at 40mph on my Trice. No drama, no fuss.. I was able to slow down and pull in at the side of the road safely. I was a bit worried at what the rim might look like but it was OK. I managed to continue after a tube change and using a Snickers bar wrapper as a tyre boot!

Nice. They won’t be that clean for long, I’m sure!

Two kick scooters together is a bad combination, they tend to breed

Could you date it by the components? Assuming there hasn’t been too many changes over its lifetime of course. A bit of research into for example the rear mech or the hubs might turn something up.

I haven’t taken the bearings out of the hub shell, but they are flat in profile on the outside and a correspondingly flat face on the axle abuts onto the inner part of the bearing. There’s room between this and the hub shell, they don’t obviously appear to be touching. I wonder if the axle is bent, ...