Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: Annie on 19 September, 2011, 07:01:43 pm
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Hello, this is my first post here. I can't quite believe this place. It must be where cyclists go when they try other forums and find everyone is into fast and/or far on two wheels with a helmet. No one rides anything a bit different and if you don't wear a helmet and attempt to venture the opinion that there may be evidence indicating that is a reasonable decision, you will be vilified! Here I read that some people enjoy cycling fast and/or far. No doubt some choose to wear a helmet, but some like to ride differently, even on 3 wheels and, shock, horror, is that a sensible, friendly chat about helmets I see?!!! In any event, folk here seem so friendly and open to differences :)
So, I'm pleased to find you. I finally learned to ride on two wheels last year at he age of 51. Very pleased of course, but I have harboured what seemed like a dirty little secret for years. A wish to have an adult tricycle. I rode one about 6 years ago on holiday in Florida. I hired it for 5 days. It was single speed, riding up hill nearly killed me, but I couldn't get the grin off my face, I loved it so much. I thought I couldn't get one because I 'should' ride a bicycle like a proper grown-up. Then I came across the Tricycle Association. I couldn't believe what I was seeing ;D I now have a Pashley Picador on order. I know it's no athlete, but neither am I. I just want to tootle around the local park, and cycle tracks locally, including those near the beach and Kielder Water etc. My bicycle is also an old fashioned Pashley. Albeit it has 5 gears to the Picadirs 3!
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Welcome to yacf. We're a very friendly and, dare I say, eccentric lot (well I am anyway). Hope you enjoy being here. Looking forward to some pics of the new trike when it arrives. I must confess to a hankering for a recumbent trike. Almost bought one a few weeks ago, but funding issues intervened :'( - maybe next year :thumbsup:
Nigel
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Welcome Annie
Yes it is a friendly place here.
And yes some of us ride weird bikes :thumbsup:
Rich (recumbent trike rider ;D)
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Hello Annie. Glad you found us :).
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Welcome to the forum! It's a good place to spend time.
I bought a tricycle last year and I can't ride the bloody thing. I still haven't graduated to that extra wheel.
I take it that your mention of Kielder Water implies that you are a Northumberland lass. My wife, myself and three friends are heading that way for a holiday next month (staying in Alnwick).
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Hello Annie - glad you've found us :)
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A tricycle rider? God help us when Zipperhead finds this thread.
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I bought a tricycle last year and I can't ride the bloody thing.
I sold it to him :)
I still have one I can't ride very well. I'm massively impressed by anyone who can ride an upright trike with any degree of panache. Welcome :)
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Annie are you OK? So, Annie are you OK? Are you OK, Annie.
Sorry, I've got trouble with my earworms.
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Welcome!
You'll find that we're a fairly mixed bunch: Some of us like helmets, some of us like riding fast, some of us like carbon fibre bling, some of us like sleeping in bus shelters halfway up a welsh mountain in the rain, some of us like funny shaped cycles that weigh almost as much as we do, and some of us like pootling along at 9mph stopping at every pub and cafe on the route. Nearly all of us like CAKE, though. :thumbsup:
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I now have a Pashley Picador on order.
A long long time ago, I broke my leg while under the influence of that heady mixture of my first 2-wheel short-wheelbase recumbent and 6 pints of Old Speckled Hen.
While my leg was in plaster, I bought a Picador. It was utterly brilliant for giving me mobility again. After I was allowed back onto two wheels by the physios, I donated it to the hospital's Occupational Therapy clinic. Never heard of it again.
ETA: Very Many Welcomes!
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Hi Annie, welcome to yacf :thumbsup:
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Moderators!
Move this thread immediately! She used the 'H' word!
;D
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Welcome!
and from here too :)
Nearly all of us like CAKE, though. :thumbsup:
so far i've only had three outright refusals. and one of them caved in the face of flapjack :)
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YACF collectively is going to design and market a dedicated bike cake holder. Hope you can help with this, Annie.
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I thought Carradice already did? ;D
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Whereas Ortlieb design bicycle-specific milking pails.
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I bought a tricycle last year and I can't ride the bloody thing.
I sold it to him :)
I still have one I can't ride very well. I'm massively impressed by anyone who can ride an upright trike with any degree of panache. Welcome :)
Ooh, does a Maximus load carrier/rickshaw count? I can do one of them no trouble, frequently one handed and hauling up to 100kg (although slowly!). In fact I spent all day at work on one....
Welcome Annie!
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LOL! Thanks for the lovely welcome guys :)
I hope that by learning to ride (after a fashion) on two wheels, I haven't lost the ability to ride on three!
I live in South Tyneside with my partner, dogs and chickens - the latter being very good in triggering the baking of very excellent cakes! So Wowbagger, Northumberland is an easy drive up the road and there is some nice coastline 20 minutes away. Have a great time in Northumberland :)
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So, I'm pleased to find you.
How did you find us ?
And welcome.
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So, I'm pleased to find you.
How did you find us ?
And welcome.
I googled 'adult riding a tricycle'!
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I live in South Tyneside with my partner, dogs and chickens - the latter being very good in triggering the baking of very excellent cakes!
Chicken cake? Wow! That's taking a cake to a level even unheard of YACF! :thumbsup: ;)
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I live in South Tyneside with my partner, dogs and chickens - the latter being very good in triggering the baking of very excellent cakes!
Chicken cake? Wow! That's taking a cake to a level even unheard of YACF! :thumbsup: ;)
LOL!
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welcome :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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So, I'm pleased to find you.
How did you find us ?
And welcome.
I googled 'adult riding a tricycle'!
Ha ha That'll do it :-D Welcome to the forum John
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I hope that .......... I haven't lost the ability to ride on three!
Welcome Annie
Three wheels - me too, apparently..
Actually I have two wheels on the bike and another on the trailer ;)
Luckily a load of school kids over in Wales were helpfully yelling "threewheels, threewheels, threewheels" at me, presumably having realised that I can't count !!! ;D ;D ;D
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I hope that .......... I haven't lost the ability to ride on three!
Welcome Annie
Three wheels - me too, apparently..
Actually I have two wheels on the bike and another on the trailer ;)
Luckily a load of school kids over in Wales were helpfully yelling "threewheels, threewheels, threewheels" at me, presumably having realised that I can't count !!! ;D ;D ;D
I am looking forward to my trike, but not to the comments from fools!
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Learning to ride a bike at the age of 51 is quintessentially cool. 8)
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I am looking forward to my trike, but not to the comments from fools!
You get used to them. Then you start to collect the more exotic ones.
My current best is "sick as fuck!", which I'm lead to believe is one of the highest forms of approval amongst the yoof. The worst, if only on the basis of unorignality, is "wanker-cycle". 'Witty' comments about doing wheelies, flat tyres or the stoker not pedalling are best ignored.
Actually, didn't we have a thread about this? Ah yes, here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0).
At the end of the day, even if they think your bike's silly, you're almost certainly having more fun than they are, so it doesn't really matter what they call you or that you only manage to think of a hilarious retort 5 minutes later...
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Out on the Maximus trikes, we often get "You want to get a motor on that!"
Just once, we got "You want to get a pony for that!"
With regard to re-learning to ride a tricyle, if you find it tricky (and many accustomed two wheelers do), find yourself a nice large flat space, like an empty car park, and practice riding really slowly. Straight lines at first, then corners. Get used to the idea that you don't need to put your feet down when you stop (something a lot of people have trouble shedding the instinct to do), or go very slowly. Cover the brakes. It'll soon come.
The cyclecouriers in York used to hire their Maximuses out in rickshaw configuration to school fetes. Apparently, two of them would set off, towards each other, from opposite ends of a playing field, with 2 or 3 kids each in the back. They'd each ride, looking over their shoulders, telling the kids how important it was to look where you were going, and how the kids should shout if they saw anything coming. The kids would be squealing and pointing at the oncoming rickshaw, while the rider continued not to look.
At the last minute, by prearrangement and periferal vision, both riders would execute 90 degree left turns to avoid the inevitable. Since a Maximus can turn in it's own length, this was fairly effective.
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The 'free cycling' exhibitionists at a bike rally borrowed Jim's Maximus for a bit. The expression on his face when he saw them experimenting . . . A maximus is surprisingly stable on two wheels.
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Hello Annie and welcome.
Trikes are lovely, although I have to admit to still being in the midst of a love affair with a touring bike I bought last year, which has rather distracted me from riding the Windcheetah. I'm late to the party to say hello simply because I started a new job on Monday, and my brain hasn't found the 'off' switch yet...
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The 'free cycling' exhibitionists at a bike rally borrowed Jim's Maximus for a bit. The expression on his face when he saw them experimenting . . . A maximus is surprisingly stable on two wheels.
I've done that with a Pashley, in my brave days, but not with a Maximus! Perhaps I ought to try it again one day.
But not fully loaded with recycling!
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Thank you for all of your supportive, friendly comments and for the lovely welcome :)