I did the tadpole trike thing for a couple years, I saw one in Berkeley and thought it was cool! But it was too low around cars, too wide for bike lanes and too hard to transport and store..as you say they need a specific environment to operate in that we don't live in. Also they attract too much attention, I would be a terrible famous person!
So. Mixte. Steel. Joe Bernard On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 11:10:51 AM UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote: > LOL! Good joke! > > Patrick Moore himself picked a steel diamond frame to be his only bike. > If Patrick Moore won't pick a trike as his forever bike, there is no way > in hell I'm going to! > > Seriously though, to repeat, if I could only ride a trike I would rarely > ride at all in the Bay Area. If I could only ride a trike, the logistics > of getting the thing into and out of my garage would be a major > discouragement. Even a racing trike which I probably could do a brevet on > (and which is steel, let's acknowledge), I wouldn't want to be that wide on > a San Francisco Randonneurs event. If I had to just ride a trike, I would > either quit cycling altogether -OR- I would have to build a different life > for myself, in a different location. I'm sure those places exist, but I > don't live in one of those places. > > BL in EC > > On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 10:05:31 AM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 10:18 AM Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> .. If I had to give up all my bikes and only use a trike, I'd >>> regretfully but probably quickly become much less of a cyclist. I'd be >>> scared to ride in traffic. It would be a very difficult extraction from my >>> garage. My randonneuring career would be immediately over with. I >>> couldn't handle sacrificing the relatively fit 53-70 years of my cycling >>> career in exchange for the insurance of having a trike on hand in my 90s. >>> Too high a price. >>> >> >> Bill: This could be you at 90 (well, you'd have to dye your hair): >> [image: image.png] >> Or, more age-appropriate. These guys must be pushing 90: >> [image: image.png] >> >> Patrick "the funnest part of riding a trike is cornering" Moore, who sort >> of misses his 2. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/06ba6644-4a9e-4193-b497-b15b2a325652n%40googlegroups.com.
