Evolution of the Trike Hobo ...
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2024
- Things are about to change ... just a little bit really, but here's the scoop!
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RIDE RELAXED ... RIDE A RECUMBENT!
Other websites by Steve:
trikeasylum.wordpress.com
silentpassage.wordpress.com/
trikegypsies.wordpress.com/
trikephantoms.wordpress.com/
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OK, Steve... I'll be watching!
It's great to have you stick around ... just continuing what I've been doing since 2010, but with a new name, so really no big deal. Thanks!
steve
Hi Steve , you just keep doing you ! I’m looking forward to your future adventures . 👍✌️😎
Hi Greg,
Well, I have some surprises on the way, which will keep folks guessing for a while, haha. I like to have fun, and do whatever weird things cross my old mind. Thanks for your support!
steve
Hey Steve...
"Good-Bye Trike Hobo, Hello Easy Rider!"
Keep on Triking!
Keepin' on keepin' on ... pedaling, one way or the other, three wheels or two. I'll be here Tom!
steve
Hi, Easy Rider. I am a lot like you in that I have been in love with two wheels, or three, for 70 years now. I rode and raced motorcycles in the 1970s and have been riding them ever since. I have been riding bicycles since the 1950s. I want to get a recumbent trike but my wife won't let me spend the money since I am retired living on just Social Security so my income is very limited. I have a nice full suspension mountain bike that I use for all my riding but I haven't been mountain biking for a couple of years since I had a total shoulder replacement and now need one on my other shoulder.
I also was thinking of getting the four wheel cycle about the same time you were but I found out they are not legal here in Ohio. I believe they were called the Rhodes Car quadcycles.
Good luck with your new channel. I look forward to watching your channel for many years to come.
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your thoughts! Yes, I am familiar with the Rhodes Car, but never really considered it for my purposes (at least, not for long). The quad that was prominent at the time, which went out of business, was extremely expensive, and since quads weren't a thing back then, buyers were far and few between (thus their demise). I don't recall the name of the quad company, but I probably wrote about it many years ago on Trike Asylum somewhere, in a post. It was way cooler than a Rhodes Car, much more robust, and would have been perfectly suited for my cross country trips. It also would have made a good platform for my idea at the time of incorporating a sleeping quarter above the driver's seat (would have required a LOT of design and fabrication of course).
I began racing motorcycles in the Mojave Desert in the mid 60s, which really cemented my love for two wheels, and my later acquisition of my fat tire mountain bike.
I guess we are part of a slowly fading generation that came of age during a very special time, although at that time, we never realized it ... only upon hindsight do we romanticize and ache for those good old days! My dad (Bob Greene) was a career automotive journalist, and had editorships at several magazines during my earlier years, which included "Cycle Magazine", Hot Rod Magazine", and "Motorcyclist Magazine", thus my indoctrination and subsequent love of vehicles of all kinds, cars and motorcycles.
With my new recumbent, I will relive the feel of riding a Harley, albeit a bit slower speed-wise, haha.
steve
Hi Steve.. i think you will regret selling the sign that is linked to your name and brand.. it is great memorabilia.
Selling that sign would be akin to selling the family photos.. :). Glad you are finding new adventures. Rob PDX
Hi Rob,
Well, of course I've thought about that regret too, but I have so much regret over the years from getting rid of things of much more personal importance earlier in my life, so why stop now? haha. If I keep that sign around, it might have a tendency to mentally shackle me rather than allow me to soar into the new great unknown. If no one wants it, I'll keep it, but if someone would like it, and give it a fitting home, then I am happy because it won't just be collecting dust in my garage.
In reality, I won't be doing anything different than I have been doing with my writing, riding, and online offerings, other than just having a new branding so folks can see that I love cycling overall, whether three wheels or two. It's the cycling that is the foundation for me. Thanks for your thoughts!!
steve
Steve, what's then new bike you have coming???
It is a long wheel base touring bike, 26 inch rear wheel and 20 inch front wheel, recumbent seat, 85 inches total length front of front tire to rear of rear tire (which just happens to be the identical overall length of my HP Velotechnik Scorpion fs26). The bike is blue, with a rear pannier rack, sidestand (because I prefer not to let my bike fall to the ground when parked, as many bikers seem to do). Also included is a partial front fairing. It is a 24 speed, with the rear cogs 11-32 and the front crankset with rings of 30-42-52. The seat height is 26 inches, as compared to my HP trike seat height of 12 inches or my Catrike 700 seat height of 7 inches. The bike's weight is 40 pounds, made of Cro-Mo steel, so it's indestructible (will stand up to any car, haha). The weight limit is 300 pounds, way more than I need, but I like things to be built well. I'll be sharing the bike once it arrives here from Hostel Shoppe, so stand by!
steve
Trike Hobo 😢 no more.
I thought you were not going to change your channel because of the problems that you said come with doing so.
Remember that conversation you wrote to me.
I WANT your sign Steven
The Trike Hobo lives on, but with a new name. I change my mind continually ... been doing it my entire life ... don't know how to stop the habit, haha. Hmm, if someone actually wants this sign, maybe I should raise the price and gouge potential buyers (like all serious entrepreneurs do in real life), to maybe ... $500?
Let the bidding begin, haha.
steve
@@EZSteve
You are entitled to do whatever you want with your channel.
Just was thinking back to your previous comment, was all.
As for the gouging potential buyers for the sign.
It also happens that those companies end up going out of business due to pricing themselves out of the market.
Unfortunately we see this happening in the cycling world.
It's only going to go up unfortunately.
That's why I decided to buy my new purchase now, and not at a later time, which I want to keep a secret for now (so no mention of it whatsoever, thanks).
@@The-GreenHornet Yep, true enough, year by year, these cycles we buy are reaching prices that keep many riders from getting them at all. It's the human greed component that is so ubiquitous all across the planet! I can't even believe the price I had to pay for the Scorpion a few years ago, but now, just three years down the road, the price has grown even more, by about $1700 ... hard to believe!!!
steve
@@EZSteve
Sad really.
Shelling out the kind of money that you paid for your HP velotechnik scorpion trike a few years ago is borderline ridiculous for a average person to purchase.
Now, as we stated is going to put them right out of the majority of the market for the consumer.
This world is broken for sure.
@@The-GreenHornet And to think that the AZUB Ti-Fly X is nearly double the price I paid for the Scorpion in 2021 ... and I would rather have the Scorpion than the AZUB anyway!
steve