Re: [CR]Trikes

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli)

From: "Nic Henderson" <nic.henderson@ntlworld.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Trikes
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:46:12 -0000
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I'm sure members of the TA would disagree with that advice! http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/

Nic Henderson
Wales
UK


----- Original Message -----
From: greenjersey@ntlworld.com
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: [CR]Trikes



> My advice to anyone thinking of buying a trike is Don't. An old boy in my
> club kept on falling off his bike so he ordered a Bob Jackson OWD trike.
> By the time it arrived whatever was causing him to fall off his bike had
> gotten worse and he was dead. I bought the trike off his widow.
> It was fun learning to ride and I went on a couple of clubruns after it
> had snowed but really it was a dead loss.
> What was the worst feature for me was the way the saddle was always
> "squirming" between my legs. And with three wheels one was bound to hit
> each pothole.
> I think there are easier ways to prove that you are an eccentric, I wear
> one red and one blue arm warmer but I'm sure there are lots of other ways,
> drooling over a PX10 for instance.
> Ray Green Brighton England
>
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