rebelpeter
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Would anyone know of or have a second hand racing trike for sale an older one would be ok .
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Racing trike
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mattobrien
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Is racing trike an oxymoron? 
HorTs
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Do you mean like a traditional trike or a recumbent trike? I have neither but might help others.
rebelpeter
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This is a nice one dont mind an older one. That needs some tydying up
rebelpeter
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I mean a trike like the upright ones but a drop handlebars type
rebelpeter
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steveindenmark
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Trikes are great fun. I started riding them when I was 4. They will take you by surprise when you first ride one, but once you master the cornering by hanging out of the side, they are quite agile. Never ridden an adult trike, but have one of these:-
My eldest is autistic and would be unable to ride a bike normally and this beast gave some good days out.
My eldest is autistic and would be unable to ride a bike normally and this beast gave some good days out.
rebelpeter
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Yes i have two upright trikes they seem to pull u to the kerb moreso when the road cambers but i hear its as they have just the left rear wheel pedal powered, and if you get a racing one they often have both wheels pedaled and that stops them pulling left, i donno if this is true though, one on ebay last week went for 595
It was quite an old one so not cheap it seems....
Thanks . ..
rebelpeter
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This looks great a tandem huh never knew they did them, does it pull into the kerb and is it powered by both wheels by the pedals . . . .
I hear if both wheels are pedal powered they ride straight and dont pull left.. Is this true....
This started life as an ordinary Peugeot tandem and one of the previous owners had a conversion rear axle and wheel set welded on. I've had it since about 1994. It is only driven by one wheel, the other one is free. If both were connected to the drive shaft, it would create a problem as the rear wheels travel at different speeds as they go round corners. Further to travel on the outer side. More complex trikes may have some kind of differential axle like they do in cars, but I guess these would have been more expensive.
But it's not this that causes the trike to veer to the left, but the camber of the road and the fact that you can't lean as you do with a bike. You have to steer as you would in a car and initially this is not a reflex action. But once you have tried a few times, you don't notice it.
Cheers keith
rebelpeter
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Hello and thanks for telling me about the tandem trike they did a good job to it.
So it is best then to have a trike with just one wheel pedal powered i see what
you me about the road cambers i did notice it pulled in when there was a camber,
and i did find myself trying to lean outwards to try to straighten it up on cambers,
so now I have to now learn to steer it rather than leaning to get it away from the kerbs
on cambered roads. I am going out today on it and will do as you say about steering
it is good to know that I will get used to steering rather than leaning, as I beggining
to get worried that maybe I will not get it to stop pulling left and even thought of
giving up trying to ride the trike, it has 28 inch wheels and is in godd condition, it is
a Pashley.
Many thanks . . .
uclown2002
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What is with the bold font?
It doesn't make it anymore readable!
In fact it makes my eyes hurt
It doesn't make it anymore readable!
In fact it makes my eyes hurt
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Found this reference
http://www.cb1.com/~john/Exercise/delta-trike.html
again talks about the steering and that most trikes only have a single drive on the left, which helps to ride against the camber.
Hope you enjoy your ride today.
Keith