Re: [CR]Trikes

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: <CYCLETRUCK@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 21:54:49 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Trikes
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


I had the same experiance last year trying to steer a rickshaw (pedicab was an unfortuate coinage). I should have been on a parking lot in a neighborhood where I'm not known. Instead I'm in front my home looking VERY foolish as I try to control the direction of the damned thing.

Like being three YOA, again.

I've been told this difficulty has to do with proportion of steering you actually do with leaning while riding a bike. A trike just doesn't respond to leaning. The correct moves are counter-intuitive.

I've read that many two-wheel pros are throughly frustrated by trikes.

Best of luck, Rick.

Calvert "Leans to the inside even while driving his Cherokee" Guthrie Missouri where property values are affected being down wind from Kansas.

In a message dated 6/3/2001 4:05:29 PM Central Daylight Time, rchasteen@kc.rr.com writes:


> So, I am wondering (and I am truly desperate, now, since my friend will
> probably insist I "take it for a spin" again), how does the rider make a
> trike proceed in the direction desired?
>
> Rick Chasteen, Kansas City