Where did your Recumbent take you today?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Riggsbie » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:05 pm
So, 2015 here we come Velonauts !
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Riggsbie » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:06 pm
Interesting mechanical issue
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby recumbenteer » Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:36 pm
Great day for a ride, and not all that much slower up the hills.
Can I make it across the country?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Riggsbie » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:57 pm
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby recumbenteer » Sun Mar 23, 2014 6:21 pm
.... in the words of the Special Olympic Athlete Oath..... "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt"Riggsbie wrote:Yes you can !
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby John Lewis » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:39 pm
+1Riggsbie wrote:Yes you can !
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby recumbenteer » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:52 pm
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby petie » Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:45 pm
First ride on my new (old) Bachetta giro. Made the call to ride on-road to the crit track and didn't end up under a bus!! Managed to get the setup pretty close at home so only a few minor tweaks at this stage. Will take some getting used to the schlumpf mountain drive and alfine. Got to get my recumbent legs first anyway!
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby zebee » Fri Jun 06, 2014 4:39 pm
One question.... The mountain drive often has this weird giving feeling.... push the pedals and I hesitate to call it a slip but it sorta gives a bit under the pressure. Not constantly but in a rhythm.
At higher cadences it isn't as noticeable.
Does yours do that?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby petie » Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:18 pm
I've only got about 20kms on mine so far! There is a bit of an odd "give" that I notice when taking off, worse when in the 2.5 reduction option. Didn't notice while riding? Will let you know after a few more kms. Haven't looked at any mechanical diagrams yet, just ridden it!zebee wrote:I have fitted a mountain drive to my Giro and am about to fit an Alfine. Be very interested in your experiences!
One question.... The mountain drive often has this weird giving feeling.... push the pedals and I hesitate to call it a slip but it sorta gives a bit under the pressure. Not constantly but in a rhythm.
At higher cadences it isn't as noticeable.
Does yours do that?
Zebee
I will say, mine has an alfine with trigger shifter. I keep banging my knee on the damn thing the way I have set up my bars! Maybe try the twist shifter? I feel like the trigger is best ergonomically though, despite the knee interference.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby zebee » Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:49 pm
Yeah that sounds right. A give when you put power into it in the low gear. I don't notice in high though, just low. And if I speed the cadence up it goes away.petie wrote:
I've only got about 20kms on mine so far! There is a bit of an odd "give" that I notice when taking off, worse when in the 2.5 reduction option. Didn't notice while riding? Will let you know after a few more kms. Haven't looked at any mechanical diagrams yet, just ridden it!
(And I ahve to speed up a lot... right now I run out of low gear damn fast!)
That's what I'm scared of. I was considering the Jtek shifter as I have bar end shifters now and love them but 80 Pommy beer vouchers made me think I'll try triggers first.petie wrote: I will say, mine has an alfine with trigger shifter. I keep banging my knee on the damn thing the way I have set up my bars! Maybe try the twist shifter? I feel like the trigger is best ergonomically though, despite the knee interference.
I hate twist shifters so if I can't get the triggers to fit past my knees then I have to have a good cry and spend the money on the JTek.
I have my bars almost as low as they'll go (being very vertically challenged) but I don't foul the sides of the tweener bars. I do sometimes brush the top of the bar near the stem. Once the Alfine is installed I'll spend a couple of hours with some washers (to reinforce the flexi stem angle bolt) to set the stem angle and fiddle with the cockpit.
I recently managed to give the Schlumpf a bit of a go on the ride up from Bondi Beach to the train station. I wasn't fast up the hills but once I settled into the right cadence it was surprisingly easy to grind up the hill. Slow but pleasant. (Which is, I suppose, recumbents up hills generally!)
What gearing do you have on the Alfine? I'm looking at a 20t on the rear and a 54 on the front which I think will give me a decent spread.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Riggsbie » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:10 pm
I cycled a few kays today......138km.......
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby petie » Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:20 pm
But they are nice SRAM shifters, not clumsy shimano ones!Riggsbie wrote:Twist shifters are great on my CA2 and my M5.... I used to hate them but am a convert now !
I cycled a few kays today......138km.......
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Good effort on the 138km, which bike and where did you go?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby zebee » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:38 am
THe trigger on the Brom is fine, although I suppose it isn't really a trigger as it has no spring, it's just a lever. I'm hoping the angle of the triggers will work so that I don't have to !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! my hand/wrist uncomfortably to use them.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby just4tehhalibut » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:38 pm
I was marshalling the riders along the route for last year's Great Vic, had to leave Port Campbell before dawn and up Lavers Hill to get to that corner early, then had to stand in the fog and drizzle for the rest of the day trying to convince riders to turn left onto that coffee stop and the road to the next camp. Amazing how often single riders listened and took the turn but groups ignored me and ended up in Beech Forest or beyond. The next day had to also ride past there before dawn to get out to my checkpoint before the riders. Nice coffee and loads of chocolate on sale there but the effort of getting there is memorable, as is the weather. Lost my voice soon after.
There were some recumbents on that ride too, some nice Bacchettas rolled out of the fog looking a bit damp.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby william » Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:06 pm
Yep! but I came from Warnambool with a bunch of Audax riders. When I got to Lavers Hill I thought I was almost there. Wrong. There was anothe 15ish K's to go and almost all of it was "up" or so it felt.
The coffee at this store was great along with the freshly made snacks sitting around a home made pot belly stove.
For anyone going that way I highly recommend you stop in.
Luckily this pic was taken after I ate. I couldn't have kept the camera still when I arrived.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby recumbenteer » Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:47 pm
Not very far....
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Arakasy » Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:43 am
And I don't know
Ride casual... Not to casual
They might snap out it's comfortable !!
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby gretaboy » Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:02 pm
We walked the bikes back down as we didnt think that our brakes would hold up.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
Postby Aushiker » Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:38 pm
I tip my hat to yougretaboy wrote:My trike took me up a hill sign posted as having a 26% gradient for 1.4 k's...had to zig zag the whole way up but I did it and it was a huge accomplishment for me.
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Re: Where did your Recumbent take you today?
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