http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Upright Tricycickles en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:28:36 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51347 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:29:02 +0000 Smudge 51347@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the input chaps, I'm pushing her in the direction that a £600 "conventional" trike secondhand (and therefore cheap) will be a better device than a £600 electric of unknown manufacture.<br /> Will keep an eye on the classifieds and see if I can pick her up a bargain. Have emailed the ERC lass but no answer so far, I assume it's either sold or she's away on holitags :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51302 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:55:16 +0000 wee folding bike 51302@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If she can already ride a bike then a trike will feel very wrong. They steer using the steering and stay up by using your weight to balance them. I let one of the S4 boys have a shot on mine last week. He couldn't turn it. He also couldn't find the brakes which makes me think there is now a whole generation of kids who have never used drop bars. Anyway, not being able to turn a trike is quite common. Steering straight into the kerb is normal too because the camber makes a bike rider feel like they are falling left so they steer that way to bring the wheels under the centre of mass.</p> <p>I've never tried a Pashley but they are reported as being less difficult to ride than a Longstaff style large wheel trike. Apart from any engineering issues a Pashley trike isn't going to be moving as fast as a Longstaff so Newton is less likely to be a sudden concern. I'm pretty sure Pashley uses one wheel drive. Two is better but again I might be looking for more performance than the machine is designed to deliver.</p> <p>Cars <em>will</em> give you a wider berth. This could be because trikes are unusual and get noticed, they occupy space more convincingly or perhaps they just think you're nuts. On the down side you can't slip though traffic with quite the same élan.</p> <p>I fitted Marathon Winter spikes on mine last week to get round the brake/steering on ice issues. Two weeks ago I had to walk down the hill because even with the front wheel locked it was still moving on the ice. The front tyre fouls the mudguard. I could Dremel off part of the mudguard but in the first instance I'll probably just take it off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51299 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:31:35 +0000 gembo 51299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have seen a couple of trikes. Local man takes his daughter out in one and another down at Canonmills Tesco - both look sturdy but heavy. Electric tricycle? No idea. Electric bicycle all the rage.</p> <p>I can see the logic of cars having to give a trike a wide berth - if the roads are wide enough? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51292 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:19:45 +0000 ruggtomcat 51292@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>not in a million years. or until someone else gets one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51283 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:25:44 +0000 DaveC 51283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw a few trikes on Gumtree a few weeks ago. Might be worth a look. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51275 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:15:49 +0000 kaputnik 51275@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Pashleys look like 3-wheeled Raleigh Twenties. Kinda cool. You could get a decent load of messages in the back too. Sorry, I too don't know anything more about tricycycycles! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4839#post-51272 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:03:07 +0000 Smudge 51272@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello all,<br /> My mum-in-law live in near Londinium and is apparently considering a tricicyle as she feels guilty taking a car to the local shops but overtaking cars are intimidating if she takes a trad bicycle. (Understandable down here!)</p> <p>So, given I know nothing about trikes, what's the best solution for an occaisional cyclist looking for a bargain trike in a relatively flat area? (needs hub gears and ability to carry shopping)</p> <p>She mentioned Pashley, and I found these <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pashley-Tricycle-/160703797270?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&amp;hash=item256ab15816" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pashley-Tricycle-/160703797270?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&amp;hash=item256ab15816</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghrc.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=13822.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghrc.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=13822.0</a></p> <p>Which I guess are possibles, she is tempted by an electric and found this: <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/electric-tricycle-forward-and-reverse-/260921739679?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&amp;hash=item3cc025c99f" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/electric-tricycle-forward-and-reverse-/260921739679?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&amp;hash=item3cc025c99f</a><br /> Got to say, that rings my chinese BSO alarm bells, but I don't know enough about them to be sure...</p> <p>Thoughts? </p>