This guy in the states has a faring with a solar panel and a ham radio behind the seat of a GT3. I have been considering getting such a panel but putting it on the trailer. For one thing the fairings are quite expensive at over $500 and I am not sure [...]
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I missed the last one, but finally I made it to the recycling eWaste collection day. It is run every quarter by Marrickville Council. I took my old microwave (very old and no longer used as it does not fit in the microwave hole) and the old oil heater on the radical design trailer behind the trike. The trailer is for camping and was not really suited for cargo. I will have to make something to fix this. But it did the job. I used some cardboard to protect the trailer cover from the cargo. It was very hard work carrying the microwave down the stairs. All in all I was happy. Though there are some changes I am going to have to make.  I was riding around centennial park this morning and the swing grip bar I use broke due to metal fatigue. It was a bit of a shock at the time. Luckily I had hooked up the new light last night. This meant that the power cable from the light caught the unit, otherwise it would have fallen to the ground. I had to stop. I removed all the bits and put it into the rack bag and continued on my way. I sorely missed the mirrors while riding.
The mirrors on the trike have gone trough an evolution. Like a bug, one rider said the other day that I have multifaceted vision. The mirrors I added are for seeing sideways. This is because there is a basic physical limitation on the trike. The problem is that I am down low (below the level of car windows and roofs) and a long way back. So when going out past parked cars I can see into the traffic on the cross road. This is working very well. The original mirrors I purchased were good, but only worked at 90 degrees, which was limiting.
Continue reading Evolution of Mirrors Well I went on a bit of a spending frenzy this week. One thing is still in the post and a couple are on the bike already.
I met Brendan the other day in Redfern. He was riding a Greenspeed GTO. As we were heading approximately in the same direction we rode together for a while and then agreed to do some rides together. This was our first ride together and the first ride I have done in Sydney with another recumbent trike rider. Brendan rode to Parramatta, but I caught the train.
Continue reading Parramatta to Windsor Well I have to fix my over-optimistic analysis of my rear tyre and put on a new one there as well. It arrived today, so I headed back on down to the Nunnery to fix the tyre. This also gave me a chance to work on the ding I had managed to put in the rear rim. There were many theories as to how the ding had occurred, from going over a bump on a corner to hammer wielding two wheeled bike terrorists.
Continue reading Back to the Nunnery I was headed to work. Coming around a corner under the road bridge at St Peters there was a metallic noise followed by the sound of my chain unspooling from the cogs. I thought, oh no. So I stopped, looked down and saw my chain sitting on the ground. A quick investigation showed that one of the links had become sprayed apart, and that the outside link had bent through about 45 degrees. The place where it bent was on one of my two quick release link pieces. It probably was the one I had used to break the chain then I had shortened it last time. At that time I did not know about these SRAM quick release links and I probably had stuffed it. A bit of bending later, and using the link breaker I carry in my toolkit, I put the chain together.
Continue reading Breaking the chain This was my third visit to the Nunnery Bicycle Workshop in Waterloo. I had two new Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres to put on. Really I needed three, but when I had purchased them the rear tyre looked like it still had some life in it, so I will have to buy another tyre and put it on later. I have been very happy with the schwable tyres. Not a single puncture, even though I have ridded through fields of freshly broken glass. though when I rode home the vibration through the streetring and noise from tyres with tread was quite unexpected.
Continue reading The third visit to the nunnery The other day, while waiting in Martian Place, I was sitting on my seat and noticing that it wobbles from side to side, some times it does this and other times it does not. I had never really investigated it and I knew it was the current cause of my steering instabilities [...] |
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