Recumbents and Tandems Bicycle Fan Club

A Community for Longbikes and Ryan Bicycle Fans

This site has been created by Longbikes to help riders of Recumbent and Tandem Bicycles share stories, tips and ideas and to just have fun.

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Members

  • John Morrison
  • Dan Kellogg
  • Hugh
  • Dan Kildea
  • len Chapman
  • Denny Heinle
  • Bill Hines
  • Clinton Morse
  • Gary
  • Danny Dahms
  • Joe
  • Glen Jacobsen
  • Wayne Burnette
  • David Mabry
  • Richard Cobb
  • John Twigg

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Greg Peek

How I got involved with Longbikes 8 Replies

Started by Greg Peek in General. Last reply by Dan Kellogg 1 day ago.

Hugh

Tandem box for airline travelling 2 Replies

Started by Hugh in General. Last reply by Hugh 1 day ago.

Danny Dahms

ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM 16 Replies

Started by Danny Dahms in General. Last reply by len Chapman Feb 6.

Blog Posts

Jim Parsons

Fitting Rider to Seat and Pedals for a recumbent

Greetings,
I am looking for whatever "standard rules" there might be regarding seat back angle, seat base angle, distance to pedals, etc. for a recumbent bike. I have been riding a tandem with my daughter, and have recently been adding distance and more time on hills, and I am feeling it in my lower back. I suspect I may be too closed up, with limited seat travel on my current Sun EZ Tandem. I think that the Gulfstrem would afford more legroom, and I am looking forward to sometime when we will b… Continue

Posted by Jim Parsons on December 3, 2009 at 7:13pm — 3 Comments

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Dan Kellogg replied to Greg Peek's discussion 'How I got involved with Longbikes'
Len - Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately with my eyesight I cannot use the helmet mirrors very well (I need to be 20 feet away from something that standard vision can read at the distance of two football fields). However, a friend had some alu…
yesterday
Hugh replied to Hugh's discussion 'Tandem box for airline travelling'
Dan, thanks. I had a look at it, it's one hell of a construction, isn't it? I've had a look at what's available here, which is pretty well standard world over, and if I fly QANTAS then I get a slightly better weight deal 23 kgs instead of the usua…
yesterday
Dan Kildea updated their profile photo
on Monday
Dan Kildea replied to Hugh's discussion 'Tandem box for airline travelling'
I'm working with Greg right now, while he builds our new Jetstream. I'm having it fitted with S&S couplings so that I can travel with the tandem. We discussed many options, and were kind of stuck on a good shipping container, but I finally came acro…
on Monday
len Chapman replied to Greg Peek's discussion 'How I got involved with Longbikes'
Dan, Reading your post I picked this out "The other item I am still wrestling with is how to get a really good mirror on this bike. That will be my next addition/project. Just putting mirrors on the support arms places the mirrors a bit too far bac…
on Saturday
len Chapman replied to Greg Peek's discussion 'How I got involved with Longbikes'
1) What brought you to recumbents in the first place, I have always believed that comfort was the number one reason, but tell us more. I had ridden one many years ago while visting Boston Ma. and thought interesting but that was about it. Then 20yea…
on Saturday
len Chapman replied to Danny Dahms's discussion 'ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM'
Danny, Sure thats won't be a problem
on Saturday
Denny Heinle commented on Hugh's album 'Longbikes Southern Hemisphere'
Hugh, Thanks for the note. We're working on pictures for CGOAB. I have a 11-34 rear cluster and am thinking of putting a 12-36. My wife is not very athletic and we might need lower gears in the Rockies. Since we're taking 4 of the kids speed is not…
February 3
Hugh commented on Hugh's album 'Longbikes Southern Hemisphere'
Danny Apologies, just sent you a note via CGOAB not realising that this was also you. I've fitted the 11-34 cog, which made life marginally easier on hills, but also altered the cranks so while my pedals are at north-south my stokers are east-west…
February 3
Denny Heinle replied to Danny Dahms's discussion 'ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM'
Ien, I don't know if it is too late, but could you add the pictures of the underseat rack? I have a Gulfstream that we're getting ready to do a Transam starting in 3 months. We used "Mark's Rack" on the front wheel and it worked great, although I di…
February 3
Denny Heinle replied to Danny Dahms's discussion 'ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM'
February 3
Hugh replied to Danny Dahms's discussion 'ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM'
Len Hope you don't mind me posting your photos! All in the cause though. I'd noticed your 'bags' slung behind the stoker and wondered what you had done to get them there. Very ingenious of you. I wandered through the on-line pages of archives in…
January 26
len Chapman updated their profile
January 25
len Chapman replied to Danny Dahms's discussion 'ADDING EXTRA BAGS ON A LONGBIKE SLIPSTREAM'
Danny, The Mark's Rack from Raivendell works well and fits like it was made for the bike. You could also make and underseat rack if you wanted, thats what we did for our cross country trip in 2007 The Slipstream and Gulfstream are very close and th…
January 25
len Chapman is now a member of Recumbents and Tandems Bicycle Fan Club
Welcome Them!
January 24
Bill Hines updated their profile
January 24

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