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Old 04-13-22, 04:28 AM
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Originally Posted by greatbasin
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Interestingly, he doesn't mention the challenge of transportation. Even if you're not flying the airlines, getting a trike in a regular car would be a challenge and bike racks don't help. Even with some folding features, it seems like you'd need a van, suv or a crossover with a fairly large cargo area and it would probably be best to have a pickup truck. Even then, transporting two or more trikes becomes a challenge. I've frequently traveled with four bikes on a bike rack or in a pickup truck bed. I don't think I could carry four trikes without a big truck or trailer. I do think about involving more of my family in touring, and that's another reason I'm avoiding trikes for now.
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The guy I know that bought a trike a couple years ago, he is 85, he was losing his ability to balance a bike and crashed a couple times the summer before he bought the trike, both crashes were balance related.

He has a mini van. When we ride, I help him load it into the minivan, at home he built some form of ramp to use. At his age he has trouble riding more than 20 miles, 95 percent of his distance ridden is on bike paths.
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