I’ll try and take a couple of pics tomorrow.
Once on e assist bet you wont turn it off ,also have a sprint x with shimano steps
It was a fairly flat ride, so I barely touched the electrics, apart from the odd test. Didn’t think it was fair on my sister, lol. Talking of my sister........ She has been quite intrigued by the notion of me getting a trike. So much so, that she had gone out and bought herself a used Sprint FS off
eBay. She kept it a secret until I had set mine up, and when I sat there waiting for her to go get her bike, she suddenly unveiled the trike. What a great surprise. We managed a little 18 kilometre run, and it was the nicest ride I’ve ever had. Never felt so relaxed cycling
It was quite funny... The place we rode to, somewhere on the River Exe, was a bit of a magnet for regular cyclists. There must have been about thirty bikes parked up, and all of the cyclists had got off to get the feeling back in their tortured bodies, and were finding comfortable places to sit. My sister and I just rode up next to them all, pulled up, applied the parking brake and just laid back. No need to get off and stretch, and seek comfort. We were the comfiest there
Unfortunately, my sister really struggled with her trike, and didn’t seem to be able to get any momentum going. She’s not great with the concept of gears, so I rode behind her to keep an eye on her gears, to make sure she was roughly where she should be. But she still complained a lot about really having to put loads of effort in. Not sure whether there is some friction going on when the trike is under load. All of the wheels spin freely when held aloft. She got quite disheartened, and was talking about selling it straight on, but I’d rather she bit the bullet and took it to her local bike shop and got them to give it the once-over. She’s quite a bit shorter than me, so I couldn’t really test it for her.
Out for another ride tomorrow. Got a circuit all planned out in my head. Hoping for a dead early start to try and beat the traffic until I build my confidence up. I’m partially deaf due to a cycling accident many years ago, so am quite cautious these days. Very, very happy with the new trike though. I can see me racking up plenty of miles on it.