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Old 11-01-19, 11:57 PM
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Tilting trike for grocery shopping and touring

How about this compact leaning cargo trike for touring? don't need too much packing




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Old 11-02-19, 08:31 AM
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Looks good for shopping. Battery range and the overall complication of it would make it a challenge to tour on. But where there's a will.....
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Old 11-02-19, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by timdow
Looks good for shopping. Battery range and the overall complication of it would make it a challenge to tour on. But where there's a will.....
There is a 800w generator in rear bag, yes it take more mechanic works to take care of the linkages, the most benefit is when riding in gravel path of mountain winding roads, you'll decrease falling and hurts quite a lot
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Old 11-02-19, 10:27 AM
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Yesterday afternoon went to gravel paths in the river band,full suspensions is good for E bike adventuring
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Old 11-03-19, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by hodala
How about this compact leaning cargo trike for touring?
No thanks.
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Old 11-04-19, 07:06 PM
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I suggest looking at Piaggio for articulated scooter.
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Old 11-04-19, 08:21 PM
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It's a neat bit of engineering, but I wouldn't want to tour on it. Too heavy, and the battery requirements are too onerous for the way I want to tour.
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Old 11-04-19, 08:27 PM
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Difficult to transport for a tour. I could see it for old folks doing a local day trip.
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Old 11-04-19, 08:48 PM
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Films gravel riding made this morning

Another film without power assistance no stunt go up sidewalk curb

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Old 11-04-19, 08:59 PM
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Saw this on Pinterest the other day. Looks like it has some similar characteristics, but not electric.



https://www.bikeforums.net/utility-c...931-trego.html

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Old 11-04-19, 09:19 PM
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This classify is simple style like carriage whole front end steering, not like sports car steer knuckles with little scrub,if front wheels bumped to rocks gravel road or sidewalk curbs,your arms may not to hold firmly
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Old 11-04-19, 09:32 PM
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Picture illustrated scrub around 3cm of the trike,which in carriage type front end is 1/2 wheel span, you can easily estimate how much torque the rider have to exert on the handle bar

The compact cargo trike is for multiple purpose

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Old 11-05-19, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by DropBarFan
Difficult to transport for a tour. I could see it for old folks doing a local day trip.
Old folks like me really like to do some local day trip, sometimes carried by van to mountain trails or seashore shopping around is also delightful
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Old 11-05-19, 06:37 PM
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Cool trike. I bet it's Great for getting groceries, and fun for trips around town. As long as you know you have power each day to keep your battery charged, I bet it would be just fine for local touring. The battery charge is the tricky part. Maybe you could carry a spare battery to extend range, and charge them both at night when stopped somewhere. Depending on how much power assistance you need, and how big the battery is, I bet you could do 80-100mi with two batteries. Don't worry about any negative comments you may get if you keep posting about it. A lot of the crowd here doesn't like much other than a classic design touring bike.
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Old 11-06-19, 09:39 AM
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Cool trike. I bet it's Great for getting groceries, and fun for trips around town. As long as you know you have power each day to keep your battery charged, I bet it would be just fine for local touring. The battery charge is the tricky part. Maybe you could carry a spare battery to extend range, and charge them both at night when stopped somewhere. Depending on how much power assistance you need, and how big the battery is, I bet you could do 80-100mi with two batteries. Don't worry about any negative comments you may get if you keep posting about it. A lot of the crowd here doesn't like much other than a classic design touring bike.
Yes I'm trying to get another battery, it's from an export trader who cooperate with me to make this E cargo trike to production
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Old 11-06-19, 10:50 AM
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Had the feeling from the beginning that publicity is what this thread is about.
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Old 11-06-19, 12:43 PM
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I do love the tiny sized full grown looking beings in the front trailer. Funny.

As for the rest of the thread...


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Old 11-06-19, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by mstateglfr
I do love the tiny sized full grown looking beings in the front trailer. Funny.

As for the rest of the thread...
if you're bored with this one, there's another thread in "utility cycling" for the front end.

as for the rest of the thread...."simpsons did it!"

https://tippingpointtrikes.com/

https://detoyboys.nl/7578-thickbox_d...n-tricycle.jpg
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Old 11-07-19, 08:45 AM
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Different strokes I guess, but the leaning trike aspect of it looks like a lot of added complexity with not enough real advantage to me. Maybe I am missing the point though. Maybe it will extend the years some folks can ride? I kind of doubt it, but maybe. Maybe the novelty aspect will appeal to some? I doubt the off road audience will be interested, but again I could be wrong.

Sometimes I have thought some new thing looked exceedingly stupid and I was wrong, not often, but it has happened.

E-assist technology has come a long way and I guess for some folks and some types of touring in some locales it can be made to work. It certainly still isn't universally applicable for general touring without a lot of planning and consideration of the route and your strategy for charging. It is awesome for around town in some situations where a little help is needed or desired.

Personally I have to think this particular design would have a pretty limited audience and none or almost none of them would be using it to tour, but I could be wrong.
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Old 11-07-19, 10:47 PM
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When I post tilting motor scooter pictures several years ago, some american said: why need more wheel on a bike? while tilting trike owner increased rapidly in EU decade, terrains and climate- - are different in different countries

It is difficult to make modified motorised vehicles legal on road in not well developed countries, bicycle with assist power may not so interfere officer's eyes that's why I swapped to bicycle product, and this is easier to set to production

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Old 11-07-19, 10:59 PM
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And this is why I prefer to ride tilting 3 wheelers if I could choose
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Old 11-08-19, 03:56 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Had the feeling from the beginning that publicity is what this thread is about.
So this guy has only posted about one product and does nothing but hawk that one product. Another one for the ignore list.
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I wonder why you NEVER see these out anywhere..
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Old 11-09-19, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by staehpj1
So this guy has only posted about one product and does nothing but hawk that one product. Another one for the ignore list.
i was gonna give this one the benefit of the doubt.

could be a cheap charlie that don't wanna pay for advertising, or could be a hobbyist that simply wants to share his ideas and get some feedback.

haven't seen any links to commercial sites from this guy, unlike some other posters that tease you with a cool video of their latest ride just to get you to click over to their site and buy a tour.
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