Dmitry,
There are such things as a fixed gear trike. I have the necessary parts to do that to my trike; but haven't tried it yet. How fast one goes on a trike depends on whether your life insurance is paid up and how big your "boys" are. I've held my own in groups of singles on a number of occasions on some pretty gnarly terrain, including some switchback down hill situations. Puts the fear of God in you for sure; and apparently plenty of fear in the riders behind you as well. Apparently the rear wheels contort into scary shapes under those circumstances, from what I hear. I suspect if I were able to see that myself, I might give up the trike. But it's a blast, even if it's life threatening! I don't go up hill too fast on the trike, though.
I'll have to try the fixed gear trike someday. Maybe after I buy some life insurance, but before I have my head examined. I KNOW what they would say!
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
USA
Hi,
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 6:15:43 PM, W PAUL PATZKOWSKY wrote:
>>From time to time someone asks a question about how English trikes
>>are ridden. Here is a Youtube link showing me on my trike.
>>http://www.youtube.com/oldtrikerider We haven't used a video camera
>>before so this is a first effort with flaws but you'll get the idea
>>about cornering at least.
Thanks for sharing. This begs the question - are/were there any fixed-geared trikes? (I'm trying to imagine going through turns like shown in your video while pedalling... OTOH, riding backwards would be much easier)
Also I wonder, in your experience, are you going faster, slower or the same when riding a trike as opposed to when riding a bike?
-- Cheers, Dmitry Yaitskov, Toronto, Canada.
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