Its always interesting to find out how the other people ride.
I buddy of mine is moving about 70 miles to a new house , and has two trikes , so he ask if I ride one of them to the new place .
So yesterday , I rode one of those $20,000 Harley Trikes for long enough to get to know it a little. It was a few miles through Chattanooga , then fifty miles on the interstate , then about 15 miles of twisty road coming down off Moneagle Mountain.
The city traffic wasn't a problem but the ruff city streets were an adventure. Come to find out the pot-holes are not as easy to miss when there are three wheels involved and two of them are ten inches wide. Then there is the bounce factor . The right/left bounce is something that takes getting used too .
Out on the Super-Slab at 70 ish mph it takes a lot of force to make them things turn , more than I'd ever have thought . Ya know to turn a two wheeler ya just kind of lean over a little and there really ain't no "Turn" to it . Well , on them three wheelers it takes so much force it seems like the front tire would just "Scoot" sideways , then when it does start turning it feels like ya-going-Flip
So , we got to the part about coming down Moneagle Mt. ... I started trying different stuff to help that monster get around the corners . The only thing that even began to help with the "Its going to Flip" feeling was to be heavy with the rear break --- enough to make the rear tires loose some of their traction --- then be heavy on the throttle coming out of the same corner. The change over point between break and throddle needs to have a slight over-lap to keep that "Flipping" feeling out of the picture.
All in All , I don't think I'll ever want to have a "Two in the back - one in the front vehicle"
I understand why they are so pokey .... They think they are just Flying along when in reallity they are in our way !