Hi Dmitry,
I have two fixed gear trikes; a Buckley and a Selbach. Both use the Abingdon differential. The Selbach is disassembled and at the shop of a well-known builder, the other I ride from time to time. People in Livermore, California do not know what to make of a racing tricycle. I've had folks ask if I was handicapped ;^) Yes, a fixed gear trike in a corner is a handfull. I suspect that the focus for these spindly old girls was out-and-back time trials; e.g., one corner taken slow.
Marc St. Martin Livermore, California USA
-----Original Message-----
>From: Dmitry Yaitskov <dima@rogers.com>
>Sent: Oct 22, 2009 6:30 PM
>To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR] trike riding video
>
>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.