"32GO" wrote in message
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Hey folks -

Who says we can't have interesting on-topic discussions
here at ARBR?

Well, yes, recumbent trikes are your business so of course we would expect
that you would show some minimal interest. At least you are proving to me
that you can write acceptable prose and not just verse about **** and ****
and ass and ****.
[...]

The biggest single difference that I see between bikes
and trikes is that anyone riding a two-wheeler has to
constantly make minor steering and/or weight shift
corrections to keep the bike upright AT ANY SPEED, and
the process of making those continuous compensations
becomes almost subconscious for him. The process is made
a bit more appropriate to normal human aptitudes by the
short-term stability provided by the precession effect
of the wheels and the rounded profile of bike tires.

Well, good grief, that is the whole fun of riding an upright bike!

But on a trike, at low and medium speeds, there is
absolutely no need for the rider to do anything but make
minor steering corrections.

Which is why it is quite dull to ride a trike at low and medium speeds for
the average person.

When the trike begins going
fast enough to make it more of a challenge to control
its direction with its sensitive steering, compensating
and correcting for stiction, linkage slack and
hysteresis, it begins to demand a lot more in the way of
attention, precision and good reflexes.
[...]

In other words, a trike is not stable at speed and does not handle well. It
is really only fun to ride a recumbent trike at fairly high speeds at which
point it becomes dangerous to do so. The bottom line is that you can't win.
Recumbent trikes are for going places in comfort and security at a medium
speed at best and they are not for having much fun unless you like to live
dangerously.

A 2-wheel recumbent does not have any of the difficulties that trikes have.
That is the main reason why trikes are so hard to sell in comparison. They
look like they are more fun than they turn out to be. At least a 2-wheel
recumbent is closer to an upright and it is possible to have some fun on
them without getting yourself killed.
[...]

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota