Recent content by csmarr

Thank you, Dauntless! I may have seen a picture before many years ago. I just thought it was too cleanly done to be a one-off. My son snapped the picture on his way home from getting gas. I didn't see it myself. I would have taken several blurry pictures instead of one good one.

This vehicle was spotted near Cleveland, Ohio on August 2, 2015 by my son. Can anyone help identify it? The naca duct makes me think it might be a scooter engine, but it was really quiet. It is not an Acabion or a Zerotracer and an image trace on Google is useless. I thought it was nicely...

Everything inside the ship would appear normal. If you measured the speed of light in the ship it would be the same as when the ship was at rest before takeoff. When looking outside the ship the rest of the universe would appear to be skewed. At 0.1C the distortion would be minimal. At higher...

Think out of the box. Mount the motor in a front fork and attach paddles to the spoke flanges. Make it a paddlewheeler. Heck mount two with one on each side.

Very Nice! However, I would be concerned with failure of the carbon seatpost. Several frames of this type have had failures in the seatpost clamp area if there is too short a section of the seatpost remaining inside the frame. Street tires will make a major difference in handling.

Switching to the trigger shift is no big deal.

Voloci. 2001-2002

You might want to try moving the supports to a point lower on the seatstays or even on the dropouts. The seatstay tubes will flex under load and the longer stance will help with side sway.

I have always thought that the ultimate jaw dropper would be a Velocraft NoCom with an electric assist.

Has anyone else heard of this.http://thegreenriders.blogspot.com/ They have already traveled from California to Indiana on electric motored long wheelbase recumbents.

Nice bike, well done! You might want to keep an eye on the hinge pins on the rack. Mine bent in a similar application and I had to replace them with grade 8 steel bolts and nylock nuts. I have had no more trouble with mine. I only wish i had replaced them before they bent since it would have...

Nice build! You might want to put that battery rack on with u- bolts. Those hose clamps will break at the absolute worst time and mess you up! It looks like you can put two u-bolts more or less where the clamps are. I would use nyloc nuts and put epoxy/ mighty putty between the rack and the...

It is a very biased report. "4) Storage for a Solar option would be enormous, 90 days of storage would be 24,000 km2" Guess what. If the sun stops shining for threee months electricity use will not be a problem. I wonder who paid for this study.

The Wal-Mart website has listed this bike as "Out of Stock Online". I am still waiting for delivery of the one I ordered.

Engage them. Don't be their enemy. They are kids. Show then your kool bike. Help one or two of them fix their bike. They are ignorant, have no proper parental supervision, and have tons of pre-teen energy. They are bored to insanity. Help them learn to be better people. I have a...