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Re: W.I.B.T. Thread
Reply #495 - Aug 20^th, 2014, 8:03pm

Quote from Phantom Rider on Aug 12^th, 2014, 9:26pm:

Late post.

Friday I made the journey to Austin and visited a very special place known as Easy Street Recumbents, should you make the journey I would encourage you to either leave your wallet at home or take someone with you who will say no.

My journey was planned as I had ordered a CA2 and was transporting my P-38 to trade in. The discussion with mike began as a trade for a musashi and somehow became a CA2. This is my first Carbon bike and oh my what a smooth ride it is. The CA2 is stock with the exception of the FSA SLK light carbon cranks I upgraded to. I now have about 100 miles on it and the jury is out on the bars and grip shifters, this is my first experience with grip shifters. I purchased it this way with the mindset that I would probably upgrade the drive train to 10 speed and bar ends pretty soon, the money was budgeted but I wasn't willing to commit up front because I wanted to ride it stock and if satisfied then I saved myself some money. I fully expect to make the decision within the first 300 miles.

The bike is beautiful and I find myself in constant amazement of just how good it really looks. The carbon is a very sweet ride and I look forward to many miles on it.

Btw, my wife and daughter went with me and now daughter has picked out a blue villager and has moms blessing. I now have to figure out how and when I'm going to get this one done. Gotta sell the Rifle first, it will be posted in the next few days.

I've been experiencing issues with the drive train on the new CA2 for quite some time now. Today I contacted Bacchetta to address the issue as I have spent several hours and dollars trying to resolve this. Bacchetta tech supports tells me there are issues with the Sram X9 9 sp Rd and the cable path utilized in the new model, this really frustrated me thinking its a known issue and I received one. After a few minutes of conversation I came to the conclusion it was time to do the upgrade and a price negotiated. I have a package in route that includes a new bar, new stem, TT500 shifters, new cassette, new chain and a X0 type 2 10 sp RD. I'm looking forward to the upgrades and my bike finally performing properly. This is an awesome machine and has not performed well since I brought it home for more than 1 or 2 rides at a a time. UPS shows delivery for Monday so hopefully before next weekend blue will be purring down the road.

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Re: W.I.B.T. Thread
Reply #496 - Aug 21^st, 2014, 7:21am

We have the TT900 shifters on the CA2 when one of the XO new shifters died at 40miles. We then decided the SRAM Red RD was also toast (had been crashed before we bought it) and we got a new SRAM Rival RD 10spd med cage WiFli (it will shift a 32T rear cog). Now DAve reports that the back end runs fine. The front TT900 shifter won't shift the granny, but does fine on the middle/Large combo.

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Reply #497 - Aug 21^st, 2014, 7:49pm

Bought a set of Conti GP's and a 26T Granny for the Catrike. Had a set of Trykers on the front & a Big Apple on the back so it dropped about an inch. Now its 3.85" from ground to Idler down from 5.35".

We have a few short rides that involve a few steep hills; GI went from 24 to 21 that helped. Acceleration feels like a 700. Better in a way. Above 15 MPH it really comes alive. Guessing the aero difference is much more then I expected.

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Reply #498 - Aug 28^th, 2014, 1:09pm

Quote from Phantom Rider on Aug 20^th, 2014, 8:03pm:

Quote from Phantom Rider on Aug 12^th, 2014, 9:26pm:

Late post.

Friday I made the journey to Austin and visited a very special place known as Easy Street Recumbents, should you make the journey I would encourage you to either leave your wallet at home or take someone with you who will say no.

My journey was planned as I had ordered a CA2 and was transporting my P-38 to trade in. The discussion with mike began as a trade for a musashi and somehow became a CA2. This is my first Carbon bike and oh my what a smooth ride it is. The CA2 is stock with the exception of the FSA SLK light carbon cranks I upgraded to. I now have about 100 miles on it and the jury is out on the bars and grip shifters, this is my first experience with grip shifters. I purchased it this way with the mindset that I would probably upgrade the drive train to 10 speed and bar ends pretty soon, the money was budgeted but I wasn't willing to commit up front because I wanted to ride it stock and if satisfied then I saved myself some money. I fully expect to make the decision within the first 300 miles.

The bike is beautiful and I find myself in constant amazement of just how good it really looks. The carbon is a very sweet ride and I look forward to many miles on it.

Btw, my wife and daughter went with me and now daughter has picked out a blue villager and has moms blessing. I now have to figure out how and when I'm going to get this one done. Gotta sell the Rifle first, it will be posted in the next few days.

I've been experiencing issues with the drive train on the new CA2 for quite some time now. Today I contacted Bacchetta to address the issue as I have spent several hours and dollars trying to resolve this. Bacchetta tech supports tells me there are issues with the Sram X9 9 sp Rd and the cable path utilized in the new model, this really frustrated me thinking its a known issue and I received one. After a few minutes of conversation I came to the conclusion it was time to do the upgrade and a price negotiated. I have a package in route that includes a new bar, new stem, TT500 shifters, new cassette, new chain and a X0 type 2 10 sp RD. I'm looking forward to the upgrades and my bike finally performing properly. This is an awesome machine and has not performed well since I brought it home for more than 1 or 2 rides at a a time. UPS shows delivery for Monday so hopefully before next weekend blue will be purring down the road.

Sweet - new parts have arrived and are installed, rode 32 miles last night on them. I truly appreciate the TT500's over the gripshifter and am pleased with this change. RD need a little adjustment to get the cable right but its is a dramatic improvement over where I was with the X9.

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FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #499 - Aug 30^th, 2014, 10:06pm After the 1.35" Durano blowout on the Seavo tandem, I bought a pair of 1.50" Schwalbe Marathons... it'll slow us down a bit, but the ride will be a bit smoother, and will help prevent flat/blowout issues.
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Monkeywrangler22 Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 1308	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #500 - Aug 31^st, 2014, 7:42am Hey Paul, Dave talked with the folks at House of Tandems, and they suggested going to 1.75's on the Seavo, and recommended the Compass tire or the Ribmo I think, and said their customers who made the switch to the fatter tires reported a speed increase.
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rcko rbent member Posts: 99	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #501 - Sep 7^th, 2014, 6:53pm Score some used SRAM force compact cranks. $100 Rings are basically new! Had to use Wheel manufacturing adapters to run GXP BB on the bikes BB30 So far all is good. No issue. The adapters are working pretty good.
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dd5339 Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 526	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #502 - Sep 7^th, 2014, 7:10pm Hmm, WIBT? Way to much stuff.. Something about fixing crashed bikes... New DF saddle Brifter hoods New bar tape Small screw/cable bolt kit for SRAM derailleur New gloves Bulk pack of tegaderm non stick 4x4 bandages Semper Fi
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diannalightning Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 522	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #503 - Sep 8^th, 2014, 10:31am Quote from dd5339 on Sep 7^th, 2014, 7:10pm: Hmm, WIBT? Way to much stuff.. Something about fixing crashed bikes... Bulk pack of tegaderm non stick 4x4 bandages Semper Fi Ok, I had to laugh at this one. I was married to a Master's racer and I often thought we should have bought stock in Band-Aid. Hope you heal fast.
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Reply #505 - Sep 11^th, 2014, 5:11pm

OK, so the chain tubes on my Catrike 700 are totally bugging me! I can hear the chain sawing away at the tubes as I ride, and that HAS to be causing some performance degradation. I really don't like how the chain is being routed through the bent tubes. Apparently, Utah Trikes came up with a solution to completely do away with the chain tubes on Catrikes by utilizing the TerraCycle Return Idler and frame clamp in line with the stock power idler. I had already installed the return idler on my Catrike 700 when it was built, so I just purchased the clamp today. This is how it should look once I receive the parts:

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JimFPU Five Star Member RBENT member, now in Virginia. I miss Texas! Posts: 1011	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #506 - Sep 11^th, 2014, 5:31pm Catrike 700. Pickup Saturday.
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Reply #507 - Sep 14^th, 2014, 3:03pm

My new to me 700...

...is just awesome! Just got back from Memphis yesterday...long 15 hours, but fun time with my wife on the road. Had to do some minor adjustments, like shortening the boom length (Lee you must have an incredible X-Seam!) by like 4 inches to make it comfortable for me, and installing my pedals.

Have to say I took the same hill I regularly start my rides with out of my neighborhood, and hit 37.11 per the GPS. I could hit about 38 on my Speed (38.something once). Here's the one thing I noticed right off. I could have kept peddling the 700 all the way down the hill and probably would have hit over 40, and I still had gear left. On my Speed, I usually had to wait until I'm about half-way up the other side of the hill before peddling again so I'm not just spinning like a mad man! The 700 still had plenty of gear left. I won't be spinning out on this baby for a while, at least until I build up my legs for this fine machine! The other very noticeable thing was it was smoooooth. I guess that big 700 wheel really does make a difference!

And since it didn't happen with out pics....enjoy the whole pride! (The only cats I'm not allergic to Grin

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FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #508 - Sep 15^th, 2014, 3:51pm The 1.5" Marathons roll very nicely on the Seavo, and definitely cushion up the ride a bit more than running with Duranos... I like it.
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Action Lad Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 1570	Re: W.I.B.T. Thread Reply #509 - Oct 16^th, 2014, 12:03am Great looking photo, Jim! I'm glad you're having so much fun on the trike it was obvious you had to get eventually.
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