Dear tcs, thanks very much for taking so much time.
Please, there is absolutely no need to be sorry and I'm surely not frustrated.
This for several reasons, one of them is that the bike does not belong to myself - I am just in the position of the interested watcher in this case.
I'll get back to all your advice later in detail - just one sentence blew me away; you wrote:

I've had my Kickstarter Curl for about a month now...

sooo...may I guess that yours is different from ours here?