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Thanks. They would vary between what donor bike was used but I can include mine. Mine don’t really work so I just use it for the electric resistance adjustment. I haven’t bothered making mine work because the flywheel is steel and to get the speed, cadence etc to work properly requires a small magnet passing a sensor which obviously doesn’t work very well when mounted to a st...

I had an older Necky Looksha IV kayak that had cord for the front part (roughly from the foot pedals to the seat) and then wire rope for the rest. It worked fine. I would disconnect the rope from the wire, and then just pull on each wire end to see if that moves the rudder smoothly, without the binding you described. If that works well, the wire rope and guides are OK and I w...

Because I cannot see or examine the kayak I am just guessing, but seeing the control lines are cord and not wire rope, my guess is that stretch of the lines may be the biggest part of the problem.

If I had the kayak here I would replace the control lines altogether.
Then check the axel/pin for the rudder itself and be sure the hole of socket it sits in ...

Absolutely.

Hi again Douglas.

The problem with working on rudders is that there are variables in what flexes and want doesn’t, and I can’t tell from a picture anything about flex. Ideally the system should be smooth and responsive and have NO flex at all. But we can’t always have perfection. So we get as close as we can.

Wear in the joints can’t be shown in pictures. And th...