bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Trikes are mental at high speed through corners.
Especially on a rough road.
Mental.
And anyone who says otherwise is also Mental
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Trikes are mental at high speed through corners.
Especially on a rough road.
Mental.
And anyone who says otherwise is also Mental
jim haseltine
Senior Retro Guru
Back in the early 1980s there were a few guys who rode trikes in time trials in Yorkshire - and not just flat trials either, I often encountered them on the more acrobatic hilly tests too. I still vividly remember catching and passing one at the U-turn on this roundbout, which as you can see is towards the bottom of a longish descent and is still on quite an incline. I swung wide and clipped the apex (after a fashion) tight against the island while he was on two wheels trying not to slide into one of the turn marshalls who was standing in just about the same position as the StreetView camera.
canny colin
Devout Dirtbag
A trike rider has to lean over the inside wheel on a corner as the centrifugal force is trying to lift the inside wheel up. You can just let the inside wheel come off the ground to tighten the corner ,let it float over kerbs etc . You get used to lifting a rear wheel over pot holes or gully's , man hole lids etc . I once rode 13 miles back home , on a trike using a front and one rear wheel . As a bit of barb wire had ripped a 6" hole in a rear tyre and being a plonker ,I had left the spare tyre on the work bench . After I had done a tidy up of the Carradice tardis bag . Hard on your shoulders mind . You do drift trike around corners in the wet and they will drift wide on bumpy corners or when you lose adhesion . I have had to use opposite lock on snow and ice . You don't have to be mad to be a Barra Boy , but it certainly helps .
Me posing , on a turn . Gives you a general idea . You can use that photograph , to keep the bairns away from the fire . lol
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