Burley Canto Owners Manual

The Burley Canto is a recumbent bike with a chromoly SupaLite frame. The frame comes in colors like seafoam, Ink Black and Matte Black. Originally released in 2002, there are 5 versions of this bike.

• • • • • • • The Burley Canto is a recumbent bike with a chromoly SupaLite frame. The frame comes in colors like seafoam, Ink Black and Matte Black. Originally released in 2002, there are 5 versions of this bike.

Due to the frame materials and other factors, we estimate that this bike weighs around 15 pounds. The Canto is fully rigid. Components The Canto comes with various recumbent bike components, including an aluminum, adjustable Burley Design Megadjust stem, a threadless, Cane Creek STS VP headset and SRAM shifters. Drivetrain The Canto has 8 speeds and has a SRAM, SunRace M60 Magnesium Shimano derailleur. Wheels It comes with Primo Kenda Kwest tires ( x in front and x rear.) and Weinmann Zac 19 rims.

I've owned a Sun EZ Tadpole trike for about 2 months. I've been pretty pleased with it. However there are a couple of annoyances popping up. First is the steering. The trike has ackerman type steering. At speeds over 20 mph, a slight steering input seems to be met with a over reaction from the trike. It wants to turn sharper than what I want.

Pretty scary when going into an 'S' curve at 25-30 mph. No problem at slow speeds. I thought about swapping the stem for a shorter one in an effort to slow down the steering and to get rid of the twitchyness. Just wondering if anyone has tried this, if it worked and if any problems were encountered. The second problem is flat tires. I replaced the Kenda Kwest 20x1.5 tires with Maxxis 20x1.95 tires in an effort to get a little more comfortable ride.

(Ultimate speed isn't a concern) When I swapped the tires, I reused the tubes which came with the trike. On the first ride, the right front tire when flat. Inspection showed the tube split near the seam on the rim side of the tube.

Thinking maybe it was too small a tube for the tire, I replaced all the tubes with ones sized for the 20X.1.95 tires. A couple of weeks later, the rear tire went flat. Again the tube split near the seam on the rim side of the tube. Now I'm at a loss. This same type problem happened twice with two different tubes on two different wheels. The wheels are Alex DA-16. Download free nowgenerator software updates.

I run 80 psi. I'm wondering if there may be a problem with running a wider tire on a narrow rim. If anybody has any thoughts, don't be shy. Toe-in, actually. Basically, the tires are angled slightly inwards, with the tires closer near the front of the trike. The user's manual should have info about this.

According to Google: 'All racers know the difference between toe-in and toe-out (alignment). However, the many forms of toe-out can be confusing or misunderstood. Toe-out can be found in at least one of five main forms; static toe out, toe out on turns 'ackerman steering', t oe out due to bump steer, steering arm toe out, and toe out due to slip angles. The most commonly known form of toe-out is 'static' toe-out.

This is where the tie rods are adjusted such that the front edges of the tires to be farther apart than the rear edges of the tires when viewing the car from above. Ackerman steering refers to the way the steering mechanism is designed, not how you misalign the static toe-in/out. Twitchy steering on trikes has the same cause as on bikes. From what I've seen, trikes usually have steep steering angles and minimal trail. One guy in my club disliked the quick steering on his Windcheetah, so he unglued the steering knuckles and relaxed the steering angle himself. IIRC, he set it at something like 11 degrees from horizintal instead of the stock 6 or 7 degrees. This would be much harder to do with other designs, since most trikes are welded in place and cannot be adjusted short of cutting the frame.

If you don't get the steering improved, a 'shock dampener' might work. I believe they added one to the Natalia Florence, which I posted the link to, in another thread. Also, I put one on my Jeep CJ5, to dampen the steering. I haven't had a lot of experience with bike tires (when I was riding, they lasted for years), however on car tires with tubes (yep, they all had tubes at one time!), it was a good idea to pump them up and then deflate them, so things could straighten.