Recumbents
Bikes and trikes which have seats, not saddles.
Only the open-minded need apply :)
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15 October 2011
Nazca Gaucho videos
A couple of quick videos to share, both on the Nazca Gaucho 28 highracer I borrowed from Laid Back Bikes over the summer.
One on tight slow manoeuvring, the other a playful ride through traffic!
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31 August 2011
Nazca Gaucho 28
If you’re ever passed by a Gaucho 28, the first thing you’ll probably notice is the light pair of full-size 700C wheels, shod with Continental’s sublime GP4000s – a combination that wouldn’t be out of place on an upmarket conventional racing bike…
A lovely contoured carbon seat and shiny carbon forks round off a package that includes oh-so-aero reverse-mounted brake calipers and a butted derailleur boom which flares at the end to accommodate a conventional band-on attachment. A real racing recumbent, right?
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16 August 2011
Paris-Brest-Paris: Kitlist
The following is an account of the stuff I took to Paris-Brest-Paris 2011, what went wrong, what went right, and general musing.
Originally I wrote this as a thought process for myself, but for the benefit of posterity I thought I’d publish it (and hey, 2015 will come around sooner than any of us expect!)
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14 July 2011
Raptobike – a novice’s perspective…
Way back in 2009 as a non-recumbent rider, I had a test run on this bizarre thing called a “Raptobike lowracer” courtesy of David Gardiner at Laid Back Bikes.
I wrote a forum post at the time which is free of any vested interest – it was just a test drive, I had no purchase to justify 
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14 July 2011
Dual 700C Raptobike lowracer
Earlier this year, Arnold Ligtvoet of RaptoBike posted a tantalising photograph on BROL. It looked to all intents and purposes like a stock Raptobike Lowracer which had been fitted with the Midracer fork to accommodate a full-size front wheel… and it was!
Well, I just had to get one of those, so after exchanging a couple of cautious emails I popped an order in the post for one midracer fork…