The Why of Trikes

[windmill]

Originally Posted by lemieuxmc

Don't forget the part where it's like sitting in a Lazy Boy going sixty miles an hour in close proximity to cars and that your passenger will particular enjoy looking up at the underside of the trailer on a semi.

Just sayin...

My wife won't ride on the back of a bike, besides being afraid of leaning, she's short and all she would see is my back. She likes riding in the sidecar having a "front seat" view, can take pictures, drink, eat, read, and snuggle up in a blanket if she gets cold.

One time we looked at a Can-am in a parking lot, her one comment was "I don't like that".

[Qwik]

I have heard the Sidecar seat referred to as the First Class Seating section.

[slide]

Originally Posted by windmill

He mentioned a sidecar for his FJR, just figured you used trike as a generic term. As far as I see it there is no advantage on a trike for the passenger.

The way I read it, he'd like to buy/ fit a sidecar but he's going with the trike. Check it out to see if I'm right.

[windmill]

Originally Posted by slide

The way I read it, he'd like to buy/ fit a sidecar but he's going with the trike. Check it out to see if I'm right.

Originally Posted by mrbreeze

This is probably 205 but I will chime in anyway. I am 53 years old. Still plenty young to keep riding 2 wheelers - but a few months ago I had back surgery. My back just isn't the same, and I have no doubt that if my FJR ever falls over, I will not be able to pick it up. Also my wife says it's uncomfortable, so it got me to thinking..... (and we all know how dangerous that can be)....

if I had the extra $$$ right now I would be seriously tempted to mate a sidecar and a "steer-lite" (leading link) front end to the FJR, I think it would be a blast! Not a trike, but capable of carrying Mrs. Breeze in some degree of comfort, not to mention capable of carrying a whole lot more stuff (and Mr's B likes to take stuff with her). Best of all, no worries about it falling over. I had a bike once that got knocked over by the wind while it was just sitting in a parking lot...

I won't presume to say what he meant, but it seems in this post he isn't thinking about a trike. If he posted otherwise elsewhere I haven't seen it.

[SgtDuster]

Originally Posted by slide

The way I read it, he'd like to buy/ fit a sidecar but he's going with the trike. Check it out to see if I'm right.

Well, your read it wrong I'd say.


Don't worry, it happens to me all the time!

[anmut]

Not so much the trikes - but I have seen lately people riding motorcycles with @#$!@ training wheels. TRAINING WHEELS. Explain that to me.

[DAKEZ]

Originally Posted by anmut

Not so much the trikes - but I have seen lately people riding motorcycles with @#$!@ training wheels. TRAINING WHEELS. Explain that to me.

Some stupidity has no explanation.

[windmill]

Originally Posted by DAKEZ

Some stupidity has no explanation.

Actually........

They are for folks who can no longer hold up a bike due to some physical disability, but don't want to ride a trike or sidecar.

http://trikealternatives.com/about/

[DAKEZ]

Originally Posted by windmill

Actually........

They are for folks who can no longer hold up a bike due to some physical disability, but don't want to ride a trike or sidecar.

http://trikealternatives.com/about/

Then they should adjust their "want"

[Stromdog]

Originally Posted by DAKEZ

Then they should adjust their "want"

Yeah man! They should be buying Chevy Volts. The #%*&@!^ idiots.

Some people just won't listen to us "ivory tower" expert types. F&%k them!

[fishwich]

Does this count as a trike?

[windmill]

Originally Posted by fishwich

Does this count as a trike?

As Slide would say, "I don't get it".

[vortexau]

Originally Posted by anmut

Not so much the trikes - but I have seen lately people riding motorcycles with @#$!@ training wheels. TRAINING WHEELS. Explain that to me.

Seems to me that you're mistaking a motorcycle parking (and standing) aid for a trike-like attachment. Just like with the Peraves MonoTracer, 1915 Militaire, and two-wheel cyclecars.






Read that bit about "a pair of small auxiliary wheels" used to support the vehicle when stopped. Most likely YOU have a sidestand, or centrestand, for this very purpose? Or do YOU attract censure when you avoid laying your motorcycle over on its side in the parking space?

[Stromdog]

Originally Posted by vortexau

Seems to me that you're mistaking a motorcycle parking (and standing) aid for a trike-like attachment. Just like with the Peraves MonoTracer, 1915 Militaire, and two-wheel cyclecars.






Read that bit about "a pair of small auxiliary wheels" used to support the vehicle when stopped. Most likely YOU have a sidestand, or centrestand, for this very purpose? Or do YOU attract censure when you avoid laying your motorcycle over on its side in the parking space?

Great post!! I guess there are just some folks that are boring, run of the mill conformists, while there are some that prefer to push the envelope--true "rebels" that couldn't give a rats pattuti what dullard posers think.