New machine, can't wait for Tuesday.

[Andrew_Culture]

At our allotment we use a lawn AS weed control; it's a damn site easier than all that digging and pulling the folk on the other plots do!

...and that's a lovely looking bike, as soon as I have somewhere to store it I'll get myself a recumbent trike (I live mid-terrace so a trike won't fit up my back-passage!)

 

[BlackPanther]

I do love the look of recumbant trikes. anyone know where i can go to test one out?
lovely machine that!

http://www.icetrikes.co/dealers

You'd have to travel a bit for a test ride. I personally took a gamble with my recumbents. The first time I rode a recumbent 2 wheeler it was on a Bacchetta Strada....10 minutes before I bought it. The first time I rode a trike, it was the Ice Trice....10 minutes before I bought it!

I live in Doncaster, possibly the furthest point in the U.K from a recumbent dealer. If anyone fancies a ride on a high racer, or a low trike, they're welcome to have a go on mine.

 

[BlackPanther]

Show me the secret of how you managed to get another bike past the wife , mine would divorce me if i got another !

My secret? I just explain to the Missus that I save around £3,000 a year by cycling to work. Therefore, as long as I spend less then £3,000 a year on bikes, I'm not actually spending real money. I also point out that the exercise I'm getting by leaving the motorbike/car at home would cost a further £1,000 a year in gym membership/sports to get the same benefit. Plus she cant divorce me as we're not married!....or should that be

 

[cyberknight]

My secret? I just explain to the Missus that I save around £3,000 a year by cycling to work. Therefore, as long as I spend less then £3,000 a year on bikes, I'm not actually spending real money. I also point out that the exercise I'm getting by leaving the motorbike/car at home would cost a further £1,000 a year in gym membership/sports to get the same benefit. Plus she cant divorce me as we're not married!....or should that be

Lol mine points out money saved pays for food etc and it will be 13 years of servitude for me in june.....

 

[cyberknight]

Could you get a recumbant trike along this cycle path with others coming the other way ?

http://g.co/maps/8tae8

 

[BlackPanther]

Well, the rule is that the machine with the most wheels has right of way so 2 wheelers would pull onto the grass verge to make way for me. If there was another trike coming towards me, I suspect that we'd crash head on as we would both be so inexperienced with such a scenario that we'd freeze!

 

[steve keay]

That looks a fab machine, I'd love to try one