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I might have said it would feel more like a bike than a trike would. I don't care enough to go back to the court records. I did say some think a side car may be more similar to a traditional bike than trike. Trikes are more common so probably what I would end up with
I would like a trike for gravel. Make an enduro out of it.
Get a 4 wheeler no leaning. Trikes have been off the maket for a few decades. Better yet get a sxs with power stearing. Actually either way at 80 power steering would probably be way to go.
I guess that was easy to interpret in a way I didn't intend. That was just some personal experience that makes me believe I could not adapt to a trike. I have no desire for any ATV regardless of power or manual steering, 4 wheels or tracked. I can feed mosquitos close to home, don't need to motor into the boonies.
I guess that was easy to interpret in a way I didn't intend. That was just some personal experience that makes me believe I could not adapt to a trike. I have no desire for any ATV regardless of power or manual steering, 4 wheels or tracked. I can feed mosquitos close to home, don't need to motor into the boonies.
Not even on a bet, since can just imaging them coming down as speeds, try to lean for corner and catching one of them, ending up going straight, with the sounds of bones snapping as your being tumbled for a hundred feet. or one big snap as you hit something solid like incoming car in other lane.
Hence it not the speed, but the immediate stopping of that speed that does you harm.
My take, if you need landing gear on the bike, then either time to ride lighter bike that you can hold up at light so you don't need them, maybe time for a trike, or just give up riding all together instead.
Learn how these work. I have several friends that still ride two wheels using these. Zero issues with them.
Tilting Motor Works is sadly gone. They were bought out and their product line immediately discontinued.
But, On Wings of Gold seems to have bought out their inventory, and there are two facebook groups dedicated to them, with people selling used or uninstalled kits.
Personally, part of the reason I bought my Heritage was so that 10 years down the road or so I could install a Tilting Motor Works kit. Them going out of business put a monkey wrench in that plan. But I still may simply buy a kit and store it for the future.
From my experience, sidecar rigs require more agility to ride than two wheelers do, and that's with a leading link front end.
Seems logical to me. Assuming one's issue or problem is primarily low speed (or stopped) balance and strength, the sidecar seems like an overkill solution...even though obviously effective. I do like sidecars incidentally but I wouldn't want one unless I had a near-constant passenger with me.
For me, motorcycling is 100% connected to the lean ....the handling of the bike unique to two wheels. Take that away and it removes something extremely important to me. I might be an aging rider on a thousand pound bagger but I still enjoy attacking....reasonably....a series of curves and hearing a board lightly scrape the blacktop. I like cutting a tight u-turn by dipping and leaning. Same with a paperclip switchback. I enjoy all aspects of riding of course, but taking away the lean would be like flying a plane with wings level; something very unique to the machine is missing. I'm not sure I could really enjoy a trike enough to love it like I do two wheels. Only an extended ride would tell me that.
The deploying stabilizer wheels would seem to be the almost-perfect solution for those who have zero problems riding, but then lack balance or strength to manage their bike at very low speeds or when stopped.
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