Four days in the coastal woods on an HP Velotechnik recumbent trike
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2024
- A HUMAN POWERED RECUMBENT TRIKE MINI ADVENTURE ...
A trike, a tent, food, and water ... way out in the woods, means great triking adventure, far from the swarms of human sprawl! Trike Packing is like Bike Packing or Back Packing, only on three wheels, which is considerably more comfortable!
SIUSLAW NATIONAL FOREST (pronounced: sigh-ooh-slaw): The Siuslaw National Forest encompasses more than 630,000 acres (2,500 km2) along the central Oregon Coast between Coos Bay and Tillamook, and in some places extends east from the ocean, beyond the crest of the Oregon Coast Range, almost reaching the Willamette Valley. The forest lies primarily in Lane County (39% of the forest) and Lincoln County (27% of the forest).
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"TAKE IT EASY ... TAKE A TRIKE!" - trike hobo
Steve's current recumbent trike is a 2021 HP Velotechnik Scorpion fs26 Enduro, outfitted with Schwalbe Marathon PLUS road tires instead of the stock knobby off-road tires. He has also owned a 2015 ICE Full Fat off-road trike, a 2014 Catrike 700 speed trike, and a 2007 ICE Qnt trike ... not to mention three bikes (Specialized Roll Elite - Motobecane Night Train fat tire - Easy Racers Gold Rush recumbent)
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Other websites by Steve:
trikeasylum.wordpress.com
silentpassage.wordpress.com/
trikegypsies.wordpress.com/
trikephantoms.wordpress.com/
mojavetraverse.wordpress.com/ - Спорт
Steve.. you always look happiest when you are on a tour.. Your smile is a little wider, and your eyes show gratitude for being able to lean back and pedal forward. :)
HI Rob, yep, I'm a happy guy when in the backcountry for sure! The only drawback currently is that there is no other recumbent triker nearby with whom to share my adventures. For a while a fellow with my abilities lived here, and it was loads of fun riding with him, but he has since moved back East. I like your phrase of leaning back while pedaling forward! Very creative!
steve
@@EZSteve I borrowed that phrase. :). plagiarism is all the rage these days.. LOL
Glad to see you getting out again Steve!
I get out more than I share here on this channel, but thought this particular adventure was worth the time to document, assemble, and share on UA-cam. I love sharing with other trikers, while at the same time, I also love just riding and not thinking about camera work ... it's kind of a trade-off.
steve
Great photography very beautiful trails thanks for sharing 💫
You're welcome Douglas! It is fun riding a trike on adventures close to home, leaving from the house directly.
steve
Beautiful scenery, Steve. The packed trike (very visible) and new tent looked great... Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
You're welcome Tom ... glad you enjoyed it! Yes, visibility is very important to me now that I better realize the finite nature of my life than I did when younger! I like to disappear back in the woods, but on the paved road getting there, I want to stand out like a "sore thumb" to motorists.
steve
Some very nice shots my guy and looks like you had a big adventure in the woods 😮
It is fun up there, very remote in places, with hardly any other people except in an occasional passing car on the paved road in the valley. Once up on the forest roads, I'm usually by myself.
steve
Watched your "Mini Adventure" again.
You got me started on those Protein Pucks.
Every morning I eat one, several, if out riding!
You could do a video on the snack/food samples you eat for energy.
Evaluation in detail, of your experience in your multiple energy-food options!
Would be very useful for the pluses-and-minuses AND ratings of the variety of
packaged snacks you are SO well experienced with!
Love your videos!
Thank you, Steve!
Thanks for your comment and thoughts Gary! Regarding Protein Pucks, I eat one nearly every day now! They have become a regular in my dietary regimen, as they have in your lifestyle. On a trike ride or trip, I just load up a bunch of these things and eat them at will. I have eaten many different kinds of energy and protein bars over the years, and nothing else even comes close to Protein Pucks, which are the healthiest and most nutrient-dense foods out there for someone who wants a convenient meal on the go. They are a real food rather than a convenient snack, and whereas Clif Bars provide tons of sugar and junk, Protein Pucks are real whole foods that are all plant-based. I 100% endorse Protein Pucks without reservation for all trike riders, with those "Bobo Bars" you saw in the video coming in second place (they do not offer as much in nutrition, but they are a good choice nevertheless, also plant based and not sugary). Keep on trikin' my friend! Have fun on three wheels!!!!
steve
Protein Pucks are pure food.
Thank you, Steve, for your energy food details! @@EZSteve
Well Done! 👏
Trike, Tent and Gear all looks great!👍
Must have been COLD 🥶 camping this time of year up in those mountains.
The weather has been fairly warm this year, and that ride was not too bad in that regard. It is actually warmer at night here than down at my mom's house in the Mojave Desert, which sits at 3,000 feet elevation, where it has been getting much colder at night, even though it is more than 900 miles south of here and in desert terrain.
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That's strange, regarding the weather situation.
You've attained your total package - Trike, gear and panniers.
Even though it took a lot of time, trial and error and lots of money, to hone the perfect setup.
@@The-GreenHornet Ya' gotta' be willing to spend a lot of money for sure, to discover what works best for you! No way around it! But even so, for me, it is a lot of fun studying what might work and trying it out first-hand. No one can ever get it right just by studying everything online about a particular product ... real world experience, with the trike and gear set up in front of you and on the road, is always necessary to fine tune the "perfect" setup for a particular rider. I wouldn't trade all my wild cycling expenditures and experimentation for the world ... it has been a blast all along!
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@@EZSteve
Couldn't agree with you more!
Nice tour Steve. Is'nt nature wonderfull?❤😊
Yes indeed, nature has a way of clearing our minds of all the human-caused clutter of our world situation! Out here in the backcountry, the ills of human society are all forgotten, and we enjoy the wonderful abundance of beauty in the natural world!
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I like the high viz yellow. Very little luggage, I assume due to light gear with warm climate. Where do you get those flags, they look great.
The flags are sold by TerraCycle in Portland, Oregon. They are called "Purple Sky" flags. Here is the link to the website page, which offers a huge selection of designs and colors:
t-cycle.com/collections/flags
These flags are super heavy duty, made of sail cloth, and will probably never wear out, perhaps only getting sun bleached over the years if your trike or bike is out in the sun a lot. They are pricey for sure, but I have found them very much worth the cost. I've had many different flags for visibility, but these are tops in my opinion.
I use two flags (twice the cost, haha) because they bob around independently of one another as I pedal down the road, really getting the attention of motorists from a long way off. One of the flags is located in the flag hole in the seat frame, but the other is zip-tied and taped onto the seat frame (it works well however, and it is not obvious that I rigged it up).
I also did a video talking about these flags here:
ua-cam.com/video/M5lLF5arNSA/v-deo.html
steve
I much prefer your slideshow presentations over the "moving" format; I frequently use fast forward. Nice intro page tho' I miss the coyotes! How did you get to the start? Are you able to start this Adventure from your front door? I'm functionally blind, haven't driven for years and my rides start from home and I get bored with the usual overnights. I could ask my wife to drive me to a ride but I feel I'm imposing. She says NOT. How do you feel about asking for rides if you've done this?
Shooting video is rewarding, but it is very labor intensive on a tour that is already using a considerable amount of a rider's physical strength and stamina each day. Setting up a tripod and riding past it for filming requires a lot of time (I'd rather be riding). I have usually used the photo option for my documentation for this reason (quick and easy on the road), and it also allows a viewer to pause the video if they want to see something for longer.
For this presentation Ian, I did not want my usual coyote intro and cricket exit to interfere with the ambiance of the soundtrack, so I made a custom intro and exit for this show.
With the exception of one trip since I began cycle adventuring in 2009, I have always departed from my home on the Oregon Coast. On this particular ride shown in this presentation here, I left from home and returned to home, staying in the regional area. The one exception to my home departures was in 2015, when I planned a 410 mile backcountry desert adventure with my ICE Full Fat off-road trike. I called it the "Mojave Traverse", which included riding the length of Death Valley, with 48% of the route on dirt roads.
On that one trip, I had a local friend for whom I had done about a thousand dollar's worth of book creation and publishing work for, so we struck a deal where he would deliver my trike, gear, and me to the trip's starting point in the Mojave Desert. He wanted to explore the region in his SUV anyway, so it worked out well for both of us. I got a free ride, and he got some debt relief!
Here is a link to a video I did back then about this ill-fated attempt:
ua-cam.com/video/J8VouOrmpik/v-deo.html
Not all things in life work out like we had hoped! But my friend and I had a lot of fun and camaraderie doing it. And here is a link to the website I did about it:
mojavetraverse.wordpress.com/
Three of my four trikes I've had have been folding trikes, so they fit in cars and SUVs, but I have not done as many trikers do, using a motorized vehicle to explore distant areas. For me, the trike is, in large part, an automobile replacement vehicle (ARV), so I try to make do with it as such. That is the big reason I got a trike because trikes are super comfortable and allow a person to travel great distances in comfort with a copious supply of needed gear for the trip (sure beats a standard bicycle hands-down). I have even slept on my trike on rare occasion, when pitching a tent was not an option (not my first choice, but it is possible in a pinch).
So in answer to your question, I have not asked for a favor of a ride with my trike in someone's vehicle ... the 2015 situation was essentially a business deal between friends ... he was short on money for paying me the amount owed, and was eager to give me a ride to my point of trip origin.
steve
Thanks for sharing your adventure! Do you lock your trike when there are other people around?
Hi Dan,
I have locked my trike only once since I started riding trikes in the spring of 2009, and that was on my first cross country trip, at a supermarket. But I stopped the locking because I was parking directly next to the front entrance of stores, and realized that a thief would have to be pretty darn bold to steal my trike in front of a stream of people. Also, I figured if a thief really wanted my minimal personal belongings inside my panniers, including my dirty clothing, he could have it, haha. I also developed a mindset that since theft on my trips was such a remote possibility, if my entire setup was taken (trike and all), that it would just give me an excuse to get a new trike, which is really fun, so I simply stopped worrying about it. Most of my trips and rides are in more remote and rural settings, not big cities, so theft has not been an issue in my personal experiences (nothing has ever been stolen from me all these years). I am very mindful of where I park and the surrounding conditions. All this is not to say however that some riders live in huge city areas where theft could be a very real concern, so my own choices on locking the trike should not be considered universal by any means. On adventures like I shared here in this video, I do not even take a lock with me because there is no one anywhere near my wild camps in the middle of proverbial nowhere.
steve
@@EZSteve Thanks for your reply. Makes sense. Happy New Year!
@@dancurran8977 I hope all goes very well for you too Dan in 2024!
What's the most your gear has weighed. I'd like to carry 120 pounds.
My goal is to always cap my gear weight (what I carry in my panniers) at 50 pounds, which is easy to do on short adventures like this one, but can be quite a challenge on longer cross-country rides. I use "rolling weight" as my guide, with "rolling weight" being every bit of weight I am pedaling down the road ... which includes my body, my trike, my bags, my gear, my food, and my water ... literally everything that requires my physical effort to move along with pedaling. So, if my trike weighs 50 pounds, I weigh 150 pounds, and I want to limit my rolling weight to 250 pounds maximum, then I can load up to 50 pounds of gear. For human powered trikers, the less rolling weight to pedal, the easier and more fun the trip is, so I make sure that I never exceed my 250 pound self-imposed limit.
I learned this lesson the hard way on my first cross country trike ride in 2009, when I pulled a trailer (really loaded up with lots of food because I didn't know what to expect), and had a rolling weight of about 375 pounds, which REALLY slowed my progress and wiped me out every day. That weight demanded an extreme caloric expenditure, and I lost a lot of bodyweight as a result. After that trip, I sold my trailer and dedicated myself to traveling lighter, with only panniers on the trike itself, and no more than 250 pounds of rolling weight.
For me, lighter is always better, as long as you have whatever gear you need for the type of trip you are taking. When I ride along the Pacific Coast, there are stores everywhere along the route, and great camping facilities, so I do not have to carry as much gear as I do when journeying out across the backcountry of the Eastern Sierra and Mojave Desert. The Pacific Coast allows for really lightweight gear, which makes for a much easier trip.
steve