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Date: 04 Oct 2006 15:26:58
From: Chuck
Subject: My Trike
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Gee; I really love my trike. It's really cool. I started out with an
EZ-3 and then modified it. Then I got hit by a car and then re-built it.
It has: mirrors, a squeaky horn, a car horn, two 4" midrange car stereo
speakers, a full fairing in the front and a canopy (detachable) in the
rear, two 26" wheels in the rear and a 20" wheel in the front, really
good tires that I've never had a flat on ( been using them since about
Feb., of last year) two re-chargeable 12 volt batteries that i built
using the batteries from 8 re-chargeable 6 volt hand held spotlights,
I've reinforced the seat back with steel tubing (adjustable), added a
headrest, front and rear lights, (supplemented with blinkies and other
separate battery powered LED head lights, a cigarette lighter, an
ashtray, satellite radio, am/fm, cassette player, cup holders on each
side, arm rests that swing in and out, two fanny bags in front and a
backpack in the rear, two flags, and a car alarm.
weight is maybe about a hundred pounds but it is still a rekably easy
ride.
anyway; just thought I'd share the joy.
Chuck Trotter
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Date: 17 Oct 2006 11:28:47
From:
Subject: Re: My Trike
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Oh yes, give us a pic.
dlhii wrote:
> Oh, need a picture of this
Now as to the joy of your three wheels...
Would this be 50% more joy than, or 2/3s of the suffering, in
comparision to a two wheeler?
I would speculate that you got 33% better treadwear but had 50% more
flats. But I can only seek to share in your joy.
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Date: 17 Oct 2006 18:06:09
From: Chuck
Subject: Re: My Trike
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in response to:
Group: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2006, 11:28am
(CDT-2) From: DennisTheBald@gmail.com
Oh yes, give us a pic.
dlhii wrote:
Oh, need a picture of this
Now as to the joy of your three wheels...
Would this be 50% more joy than, or 2/3s of the suffering, in
comparision to a two wheeler?
I would speculate that you got 33% better treadwear but had 50% more
flats. But I can only seek to share in your joy.
no flats at all actually.
I'll get around to posting a url for some pics eventually.
Chuck
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Date: 17 Oct 2006 20:37:29
From: Grolch
Subject: Re: My Trike
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<DennisTheBald@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1161109727.712159.63250@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Oh yes, give us a pic.
> dlhii wrote:
>> Oh, need a picture of this
>
>
> Now as to the joy of your three wheels...
>
> Would this be 50% more joy than, or 2/3s of the suffering, in
> comparision to a two wheeler?
>
> I would speculate that you got 33% better treadwear but had 50% more
> flats. But I can only seek to share in your joy.
>
My experience is that tread wear is actual higher (on the front wheels)
because of the required "toe-in" causing some tire scrub. In my case the
suffering is about 20% in comparison to a two-wheeler (quads still burn when
I push climbs). Flats - none to date (2600km) but thats on Schwalbe Big
Apples. As for Joy, the grin factor is at least triple that of my
two-wheeler. Broken road surfaces and Traffic are the only crappy things.
Plus, people seem to give the "thumbs up" or "cool bike" feedback all the
time. That's everybody from 7 year olds, through high-school kids, to middle
aged moms. Heck they even honk to give the thumbs up. The only people who
have a problem with the bike seem to be the lycra go-faster crowd and
red-necks in oversized pick-ups...go figure
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Date: 04 Oct 2006 16:14:04
From: dlhii
Subject: Re: My Trike
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Oh, need a picture of this
pmprod@webtv.net (Chuck) wrote:
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>Gee; I really love my trike. It's really cool. I started out with an
>EZ-3 and then modified it. Then I got hit by a car and then re-built it.
>
>It has: mirrors, a squeaky horn, a car horn, two 4" midrange car stereo
>speakers, a full fairing in the front and a canopy (detachable) in the
>rear, two 26" wheels in the rear and a 20" wheel in the front, really
>good tires that I've never had a flat on ( been using them since about
>Feb., of last year) two re-chargeable 12 volt batteries that i built
>using the batteries from 8 re-chargeable 6 volt hand held spotlights,
>I've reinforced the seat back with steel tubing (adjustable), added a
>headrest, front and rear lights, (supplemented with blinkies and other
>separate battery powered LED head lights, a cigarette lighter, an
>ashtray, satellite radio, am/fm, cassette player, cup holders on each
>side, arm rests that swing in and out, two fanny bags in front and a
>backpack in the rear, two flags, and a car alarm.
>
>weight is maybe about a hundred pounds but it is still a rekably easy
>ride.
>
>anyway; just thought I'd share the joy.
>
>Chuck Trotter
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Date: 04 Oct 2006 21:31:36
From: Ludmila Borgschatz-Thudpucker, MD
Subject: Re: My Trike
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pmprod@webtv.net (Chuck) wrote:
> Then I got hit by a car and then re-built it.
My favorite part of the post was where you sorta just parenthetically,
matter-of-fact-ly threw in this little tidbit of information.
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