Hello and Welcome to EZ Biker's Recumbent Bicycle BLOG site. My BLOG is about Bicycling in general and rediscovering the TRUE Pleasure of Bicycling again, on a recumbent bicycle. My Personal Journal / Favorite links will also be posted here as well. I hope you find my blog FUN and helpful and I Thank You for visiting! Ken aka EZ Biker :-) Remember... Peer Pressure vs. Bicycling PLEASURE! It's your choice!
WELL I've gotten a TON of emails requesting MORE photos of my new Agio and I have at least a teaser one posted here for you! half commute with fenders and half performance with a M5 carbon fiber seat, tweener bars and barcons and of course the FAT WEASEL sitting on the bike... ;-) MORE photos to come! Speaking of which, here's one with the Brain box on the back.
posted by EZ Biker at 9:29 PM
I found this really interesting link / story about the bicycle business by a poster (avatar78) at the BROL forum. (Bent Rider On Line) Very interesting reading, which you can find at the following link.
posted by EZ Biker at 8:00 PM
I've just heard about a good friend that was seriously injured on a slip and fall on a Florida grated bridge, last week. :-( Florida prides it's self on being a bicycle friendly State and yet it continues to harbor one of the MOST DANGEROUS DIRTY SECRETS that anyone on a 2 wheel vehicle, best be aware of and LOOK OUT for! Florida has numerous bridges and MOST of those bridges utilize cross cut style of bridge grating as you see here. The PROBLEM with this grating is once you roll onto it from WET Pavement surface there is "0" traction on this grating especially on a bicycle with narrow tires. Yours truly has managed to KISS the grating of some of these bridges many times and it's no fun with the DEEP gashes and injuries you can get from it. Cyclists are left with 3 options when encountering this obstacle. Chance riding very slowly over the grating and hope for the best, get off their bike and walk over the grating or use the pedestrian sidewalk. (Which usually has people walking on it as well) I personal feeling is. NEVER NEVER NEVER attempt to ride onto the grating with wet tires! Even when dry, I ALWAYS un-clip out of my left pedal and place my left shoe close to, just barely off the grating surface and proceed very carefully across the grating. This even when I'm in HAMMER mode with my fellow cyclists! (Honestly, as a cyclist using clip-in shoes, you should NEVER ride over any bridge grating wet or dry """clipped in!!!""") It should also be noted that when there are FOG conditions, that WET Grating issue is also VERY Possible and extreme care should be taken when riding in Fog conditions.
posted by EZ Biker at 9:30 PM
Tune in tomorrow (Sunday - 9-17-06) and see what camera EZ Biker will be packing with him on some future bicycle rides and events!
posted by EZ Biker at 4:30 PM
OK, admittedly this is not recumbent related, BUT it's sure COOL to see! Upon checking my Yahoo SFRR (South Florida Recumbent Riders) group I found this movie link that Shari B. had posted. Do you want to see WHAT IS POSSIBLE ON A BICYCLE? I doubt you would be able to do any of this stuff on a recumbent!!! ;-)
posted by EZ Biker at 3:30 PM
I'm quite sure a lot of you have visitied BROL (Bent Rider On Line) numerous times. However they have redoe their website and added a lot of new features and stuff! By all means go and check it out ASAP!
posted by EZ Biker at 9:23 PM
Once again I found a pretty cool recumbent site Thanks to my good Friend Alan at Recumbentblog! Recumbent news is a very interesting site and good information to gather from it. Check it out soon!
posted by EZ Biker at 2:30 PM
I've gotten a lot of inquiring emails about my new toy, the Bacchetta Agio and some questions concern being able to mount the bike onto a bike stand for better cleaning and check out purposes. YES you can in fact mount the Agio onto the Bike Park stand, BUT the bike will be angled somewhat as you see in the photo to the left. To see another angle of the bike, go to this LINK.
posted by EZ Biker at 5:30 PM
Earnesto or what ever that WUSS of a storm proved to be a BIG DUD! So out I went early in the morning for a 4 AM ride only to end up grinding to a halting THUD! Not a flat, but my rear chain and gear cluster just quit working! Lucky for me, I was only a few blocks from home and got to do the infamous WALK THE BIKE home! :-( However once I got the bike over to the bike shop, you won't believe what the cause was!!! Tune into tomorrow when I have my Agio back and I'll reveal the GOOOOOFY thing I forgot to notice or check before my ride!!!
Here's the REASON! The bike is admittedly NEW, so some parts might still have a tendency to come loose; which is what the bottom sprocket did. The chain slipped behind the sprocket, next to the frame guide and this caused the chain not to keep in contact with the rear cluster. SOMETHING I should have checked / noticed before my Agio ride!
posted by EZ Biker at 9:11 PM
EZ Biker * A single active road and recumbent cyclist, always looking for new bicycling Friends!
