Three Wheeling in Wales ...

[Louis]

The BBC Web site caption:

"A cyclist pays his respects to four riders from a Welsh cycling club who were killed after a car skidded and hit them."

It's a shame that those cyclists were killed, but I was also interested in the bike. I guess you can't carve the corners too well on that thing...

[David Kirk]

Think again.............you should see those guys rail those things around corners.

Dave

[ergott]

Think again.............you should see those guys rail those things around corners.

Dave

Do they get 'em up on two? Which two? I'd love to see that!

[Louis]

Think again.............you should see those guys rail those things around corners.

Dave

Repeating Eric's question:

So how do you turn? Do the rear wheels somehow pivot, do you lean so that the outer wheel lifts up, or what ???

[David Kirk]

The rider leans way to the inside and but most all of the coner forces are on the front and outside rear wheels.

It looks a bit like a motorcycle side-hack rider type of thing deal.

Dave

[Louis]

I would imagine that on wet pavement that might allow a non-racer like me to corner with more confidence on the fast downhills. (We've had lots of damp / wet pavement around here recently.)

[Ozz]

Kinda like this:

BTW - Elliott Bay Bicycles has one of those 3-wheelers on display....funky differential gearbox thingy in the back.....

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bro I've never seen one looks like it could be made to be a work bike too i.m.h.o. cheers

[christian]

Like Dave says, it works like a sidehack. Steer the way you want to go, like in a car (not countersteer like a bike), and lean to the inside. Corner too hard, and oops the inside wheel comes up. Now it behaves like a bike, so countersteer until the wheel plops down. Then it becomes a two-track vehicle once again. Repeat until crashing.

Motorcycle sidecars (especially when empty) are pretty tough to hustle along at any respectable speed. Upright trikes are just generally terrifying.

RIP George Longstaff, the master!

- Christian

[EPOJoe]

Looks like you'd get an interesting upper body workout...
http://www.tricycle-association.org.uk/photo_album.htm

But this just looks like a crash waiting to happen. Yep; look at the inside of his lower left leg...
http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/Activities2.html?image=med42c14ab735c39

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bro that looks like by the time you learn how to do it you are to old to do it i.m.h.o. cheers :beer:

[IXXI]

just because you can doesn't mean you should. :bike:

[palincss]

The rider leans way to the inside and but most all of the coner forces are on the front and outside rear wheels.

It looks a bit like a motorcycle side-hack rider type of thing deal.

Dave


Looks like this:

[e-RICHIE]

jp musta been seein' a tricycle therapist when he won this race...

[sg8357]

That's a British racing trike, they work *** backwards from a two
wheel bike. I've ridden a couple, one a conversion kit, the other
a Longstaff. George Longstaff was the E-Richie of trikes, his
have a double freewheel , so the trike goes
straight all the time, no torque steer.
A sweet handling trike, easy to get the hang of and hang off for turning.
Back in the day, British clubmen would convert their bikes to
trikes for winter.
Conversion trikes often had only 1 driven wheel and when ridden
on the American side of the road will tend to run into the ditch.
The other fun thing about trikes is your normal bike handling results
in a trike going straight ahead, It is great fun to watch a newbie
try to turn one, they always endup going straight towards the nearest
wall. Counter steering and leaning into the turn on a trike, means the
trike is going to go straight ahead. You have to relearn to steer into
a turn, if you never believed in counter steering, a trike will set you to
rights, right quick.

Serotta content, how about a CIII with a Longstaff axle kit ?
Great pic Steve P.


Scott G.

[fiamme red]

jp musta been seein' a tricycle therapist when he won this race...Moral of the story: don't try this (http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=photos/2006/jan06/petange/4_IMG_8199) at home, kids...

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Looks like this:
bro forget it .take a good look .cheers i.m.h.o. :beer: