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paulmarrington · 1 year

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My Recumbent Tadpole Trike

Everyone has different needs. It is good to pimp your trike to meet them best. My configuration is for adventure on new paths without worrying about climbing hills. Speed is not an issue. I am about looking around, not getting there quickly.

Configuration Based on Needs and Budget

My first trike was a HP Veloteknic Gekko fx 20 - about 12 years old as of 2023. The original configuration was tough to ride. Now I know why. The lowest crank ring had 40 teeth. I did not understand the options then, so I installed a crank e-drive and a Nuvinci hub. Electric assist worked well for my commute but did little for my fitness. I have now given my Gekko a third lease of life to travel the rail trails and tracks.

Pedals

My wife suffered from a "leg suck" when we first started riding. Leg suck is when your foot slips off the pedal, and you attempt to run over yourself. At best, you end up with a very bruised calf muscle. I would hate to think what "at worst" would be. I did not understand the mechanics at the time. To be safe, we started to wear clipless cycling shoes. The name is a misnomer as these shoes clip onto the pedals so your feet cannot slip off. Clipless shoes have problems. They are expensive and often not that comfortable to walk in. The clips protrude from the sole - making walking on wooden floors a no-no. The worst problem for me is that the clip places the pedal on the ball of the foot. It maximises the stress on the angle and front of the foot while riding. The pain limited the distances I could ride comfortably. It turns out that the leg suck issue my partner experienced was from the length of the boom. I cut it a little shorter and moved to mountain bike pedals. I get the most oversized mountain bike pedals I can find that have good anti-skid spikes. Wear sneakers or walking shoes that allow the pins on the pedals to fit between grips on the shoe sole. Just as importantly, use the correct boom extension. Your leg should still be bent between 5 and 10 degrees when a pedal is away from you. You won't get leg suck if your foot cannot leave the pedal. There is another reason for this boom length. It is inefficient if your leg straightens entirely at the end of a stroke. All your stroke power occurs before your leg is straight.

Crankset

The original Gekko crankset had the lowest gear ring with 40 teeth. I thought I could not keep up on the hills because of my weight. It was a bit of both. The first thing I do now with a new trike is to replace the crankset with a mountain bike rig of 22/32/42 teeth and 152mm cranks. The 22-tooth ring is the first step to easing riding up hills. It dropped the Gekko from 24 gear inches (GI) to 13 for hill climbing with a standard derailleur set on the rear. For me (at 85kg/13 stone), 13 gear inches means I still have to push harder for a 5-degree slope. It is possible but tiring. The other unusual thing about these cranksets is the 152mm length cranks. Most cranks are longer than 170mm. Longer cranks work on an upright bike where you can use your weight for leverage. We don't want our knees bending more than 90 degrees for a recumbent. Think of doing squats with your back to a wall. The further you lower yourself, the harder it is to stand back up. Most of our riding energy is over a bending range of about 70 degrees. The shorter crank works for everyone, including beanpoles. Also, it is way better for your knees.

Mobile Phone Mount

I like to watch my ride with either Ride with GPS or Strava. There are quite a few other apps. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, mobile phone holders for upright bicycles are not always suitable for a recumbent. As you can see from the photograph, I have modified (as in bent) a handlebar accessory mount to suit my purposes. The phone angles slightly downwards to minimise glare. Modern screens can be seen clearly at that angle.

Tires

I have spent most of my trike riding hours on road tires. They provide a hard ride and minimal grip on grass or dirt. I have switched to balloon tires. The Schwalbe Big Ben tires are 2.15" balloons. By running them at 20psi, I get good suspension below 15kph (10mph) and more surface area for off-road excursions. They also have good protection from thorns and similar nasties. I know when it is time to pump up my tires if the trike hops when I ride over a gutter. What they do not have is a nobbly tread. They will probably not work as well in sand or mud. I have put Kendra tires on my partner's trike to see if the difference is worth considering.

Brakes

The Gekko has standard mechanical disc brakes on the front and a rim drag brake for the rear. I much prefer drum brakes on the front wheels. They stop you as quickly but feel a lot more gentle. I am not sure it is even possible to switch them over. I will look for softer compounds when my pads for the disc brakes wear out. The Gekko has a rim brake on the rear wheel and a locking control lever on the left handlebar. I have always used it as an excellent handbrake. Then I was told it was a drag brake used to slow your descent on hills. What an excellent idea. It will save me having to always hang on to the brake levers - if I ever remember to use it.

Flags and Camera Mount

Flags hang from a thin fibreglass pole - except for my trike. I like to film my rides with a 360 camera, so I have mounted a trekking pole with a camera mount using a metre of 1" aluminium tube. I can drop it down when on the car. I was tired of flags being lost or pinched, so I purchased a roll of orange bunting flags. They will last me a lifetime or two. They are attached with hook and loop cable ties so I can remove them while filming.

Hub Gears

Like almost every trike sold, the Gekko came with derailleur gears. I stuck with them until I put a crank motor on for commuting. Derailleur gearing and electric motors don't play well together. When you stop pedalling, the e-bike system takes a second or two to drop power. You can't change down while going uphill under load. By the time you can change down, it is often too late. We have a 250w limit on e-bikes. I imagine there would be much less need for gear changes with a 1000w motor. I switched to a Nuvinci (now Enviolo) 360 hub "gears". The quotes are because the Nuvinci is a continuous design without gears. I ran with the Nuvinci for many years. It is a good and reliable system. You can change the gear ratio from 0.5 to 1.8 - a difference of 360%. It is slightly better than the original derailleur system giving me a low gear of 10 GI (gear inches) with the crankset above. While ten gear inches is enough to ride up 5-degree slopes without stress, I cannot pedal 10-degree slopes without pain. The figures will differ for you as they depend on weight and resilience. For my retirement chariot, I installed a Rohloff 14-speed hub. Everyone agrees that it is the Rolls Royce in bicycle gearing with renowned reliability and a gear range of 526%. My low-speed gear inches is now at 6. A Rohloff hub is expensive - adding another half to the price of a trike if you want to climb any mountains. I hope to have a more economical solution soon. The Nuvinci hub did not go to waste. It is now on my partner's Catrike Villager. Installation was a doddle as I kept it on my Gekko rim. She weighs 50kg (< 8 stone). I think 10 gear inches will work for all the hills we ride. Time will tell (as will William).

Exclusions

Well, one exclusion, anyway. Adding an electric motor in the hub or crank has become very popular. I had one for when I was commuting. Now I am riding for exercise and pleasure. Electrification takes that away for me. I also want to travel and try out distant rail trails. Electricity needs charging points. An e-bike system also adds complexity and increases the chance of failure. A modern mid-drive (crank drive) with a torque sensor allows exercise, but you will need the power to replace the lower gearing you lose when installing the drive. It comes with a 42-tooth chainring - compared to the 22 tooth smallest chainring on my crankset. A hub electric motor allows you to keep all derailleur gearing but precludes hub gears such as Nuvinci or Rohloff. There is another option. A Schlumpf Mountain Drive replaces the crankset. It has two gears - 1:1 and 2.5:1. One version comes with 27 and 38 tooth chainrings. At low range, this gives the same as an 11-tooth chainring giving six gear inches using the standard derailleur at the rear. There is no turning back once installing a Schlump system since the installer has to bore out the bottom bracket.

Imperfections

For every problem, there is a solution. Every solution creates another problem. - The disc brakes feel scratchy and a bit abrupt. I will be interested to try softer pads. - The brake handles are too short. Putting the gear change below the grip means the brake handles mount lower. Longer brake handles stick out further from the handlebar, making them harder to use. I minimise discomfort by adjusting the brakes to activate when the brake handles are close to the handlebar. That's about it - for now.

In Conclusion

I am happy with my setup. The perfect recumbent tadpole trike will vary from person to person and from use to use. Please let me know what your preferred setup is. Read the full article

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britishhoverboardelectricride · 7 days

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29″ Eleglide M1 Plus Electric Mountain Bike with APP NEW MODEL

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boneshakerbike · 3 months

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Metamorphasis

Metamorphosis Hey there! Just spruced up my webpage a bit more. Chipped away at it and got the first two buttons (aka the sub-sites) polished off. Might dive back into it this weekend, post mountain bike resurrection. It’s not brand new, just blessed with a fresh derailleur and a frame that’s seen the warranty gods. Hit up the racing link at the top of this page to see what I mean. Lately, the…

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ebike-factory · 3 months

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urbanadventureleague · 3 months

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Raleigh Crested Butte: Assessment.

Ok, enough leaving you all hanging. Now to talk about the new to me bike!When I received the Raleigh Crested Butte on Sunday November 14 (a month ago!) it was in very good shape. A “garage queen”, as they say. Not only was it in good all-around shape, it had good “stuff” on it. This is because the Crested Butte was Raleigh’s “top of the line” mountain bike in the mid-80’s. The derailleurs,…

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stevenrindner1 · 6 months

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Steven Rindner on Gravel Biking: Tools and Accessories

Steven Rindner on Gravel Biking: What do You Need?

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sonakshisrivastava · 7 months

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lantu-ebike · 8 months

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Introduction

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iamrishikajain · 8 months

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et-bikes · 9 months

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motorizedbikeparts · 9 months

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wheelywheels · 10 months

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6 Excellent Perks of Buying Electric Bike Online

People increasingly buy electric bikes online as they look for eco-friendly, enjoyable, and healthy commuting ways. E-bikes are available in more places as the market grows. Shopping for electric bikes online has many advantages over shopping in a physical store.

This piece explains why it's important to buy electric bike online and highlights the many benefits of doing so.

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Gears:

When shopping for an electric bicycle, most consumers consider a bike with a responsive gearbox that allows them to pick up speed anytime they like. E-bikes typically feature a derailleur system that enables the rider to smoothly change gears, which will appeal to this type of rider. So, pick an electric bike with the right bags for your speed needs.

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ridingthatbike · 10 months

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Bike Tour in the Age of Climate Collapse

Part one: escalation (as is often the case)

Erin and Q head out on a short bike tour, which is quickly cut even shorter by a dead derailleur. Erin and Q make a tentative plan for another attempt, and think how much nicer it would be to do a point-to-point, except then the logistics get harder, with orchestrating rides. Erin and Q suggest that Colin would probably be willing to pick them up. Then Colin suggests that he’d be into riding from the other end. Then Emma and Colin decide that we’ll ride the same route, from south to north, while Erin and Q ride it from north to south.

Part two: planning and existential crises (plural)

The logistics of the cars is very easy (each team drives to their starting point and just leaves a car there, so a car will be waiting for the other team) but it turns out that dividing up households makes it so much more complicated: we all have all the stuff to do a bike tour, but need a convoluted spreadsheet to keep track of which team is taking along which item, and who is staying where on which night so that we can orchestrate a group camp in the middle. Then the wildfire smoke from Canada blows in just as we are about to roll out, and we aren’t sure if we are going to be able to go at all. We oscillate between total panic (several sets of lungs among us have asthma and there is a LOT of lung disease in my family) and being utterly cavalier (“well, I’ve only gotten pollution hangovers if the AQI is over 70 so as long as it’s under 70 I think we can safely ride and camp for a week straight in trash air…”) and back to panic (it hasn’t rained in almost a month, it’s so hot and dry, there are small wildfires appearing in Pennsylvania, so even if the smoke from Canada mellows out, will we even be able to ride our planned route???). A number of tears are shed in a number of locations. It feels like so much planning for absolutely nothing, a good time canceled by climate collapse. What are we going to do?

Part three: wait it out We wait. I obsessively check every air quality site and every smoke map and every fire forecast I can find, just clicking through one after another again and again. It is not healthy and I’m deeply aware of it being unhealthy, but can’t seem to unhook myself from the cycle. In the end, we have dinner together on the day we were intending to depart, so we can Have Our Feelings and make a plan. We decide to delay our start a bit, and shorten the route to accommodate the delay. Erin and Q reconfigure their camp plans, while Colin and I are able to keep ours the same. We’re going.

Part four: here comes the rain

The rain comes our first night – we are delighted, because we desperately need it, and it will help clear the air and will lower our local fire risk. But also, we are not really thrilled about riding in the rain. Ultimately it is pouring rain for about fifty percent of the time we are out on tour. I’m not mad.

Our first day, we leave the car and roll out to a weird isolated group campsite with nobody in it, along a lake. I’d hoped to go swimming, but the water is very low and there are a lot of motorized boats out in the center, so we elect not to get in, and feel a little sad about it. The air is thick and hazy, and the well water is hideously orange, and there is this feeling of imminence – the vibes are a little unsettling. We decide to just throw our sleeping bags on the picnic tables in the shelter instead of heading into the woods, and give ourselves the gift of a dry packup in the morning.

The first night of camping is always uneasy for me, as I adjust to the sounds. A whippoorwill calls and calls and calls as dusk settles, and after it gets dark, I hear chewing sounds nearby and get up to investigate: a porcupine nibbling bark in the woodpile by the shelter. Neither of us sleep well at all.

The second day, we head out to see about the Terrace Mountain Trail, which Q and I attempted a number of years ago and just … couldn’t find, as it sort of petered out into some wild roses and deep leaf litter. That time, we bailed on the plan and rode the mountain bike trails instead. Maybe should’ve done that this time too. We pushed our bikes uphill in foot-deep loose leaves covering loose rocks in the rain, lifting our bikes over downed trees every hundred feet, for MILES. We were so mad! We met a guy named Josh heading the other direction on the trail, soaked to the bone, with a flat tire, who said “this isn’t even fun, man.” We made it through Terrible Mountain Trail and to the edge of town, where we’d planned to stay in a hotel. Colin looked us up and down and said “let’s at least give our bikes a bath first” so we walked into the river with our bikes, shoes and socks on, to get some of the grit off. Couldn’t get any wetter. The hotel gave us a second floor room and the elevator was out. A cherry on top of a truly hilariously difficult day.

The third day was an absolute joy – the kind of joy that is only possible after a stretch of difficulty and weird energy and trying to keep morale up, the kind of joy that feels like a reward, like a gift, like a treasure. Every road was the best road, all day long. We’d slept hard and woke up feeling great, got fancy coffees in town before rolling out, and had spectacular climbs up those long lovely mountain gravel roads we love so much. Ate a trash lunch at the top and ripped a little singletrack down. The mountain laurel is in peak bloom – I have never seen so many flowers in my life! We ride hard and feel amazing, and roll up to the campsite we’ve reserved, and feel so let down: it’s a sad, sun-baked, hard-packed field covered in dead grass. But lo! A little mossy path at the edge! Surely that goes somewhere! OH AND IT DOES! It leads back to a perfectly flat little edge along an ice cold creek, with just enough room for a tent and hammocks and bikes. We set up hammocks, do a freezing skinny dip in the creek, and thus revived, take some drugs and wander around, enthralled: touching moss underfoot, watching a catbird imitate a wood thrush and a towhee and warblers, enjoying the experience of being alive.

The rain came early that evening - we climbed into bed in the rain, packed up in the rain in the morning, and rode in the rain all day. It was our favorite kind of day, though: great backroads, wild doubletrack, climbs up to vista (or a “mist-a” as Colin called it. Welcome to the abyss, you can’t see shit!). All day we were making plans for when we’ll come back and ride these roads again, unloaded, so we can really rip it up. And since I’m only now getting around to writing this up, I get to tell you that we’re going to do that this coming weekend! Huzzah! We rolled into our group camp, envisioning a large picnic shelter where we might hang our gear up to dry a bit, but instead, found our accommodations were in fact the smallest backpacker shelter I’ve ever seen, complete with a nest of baby phoebes in the very back, and a very anxious mother hovering nearby. Colin strung up a hilarious criss-cross of cord to hang up as much gear as we could in a very small space. Q and Erin rolled up about an hour later, also soaked. Q rolled up to deliver me a tulip tree blossom and a kiss. It’s strange to be on bike tour with Q but not with Q, and I am so happy for us all to be together for the evening, having tea, looking at maps, sharing route intel and stories. Colin fixes us Fancy Dinner (using both stoves!) and we crash out.

In the morning, Erin and Q are solidly engrossed in the Not Hurry Up Camp lifestyle, while Colin and I are already fed and packed up and ready to roll. We kiss our sweeties, cruise out to the first big climb of the day, and get warmed up in a hurry. We hauled ass to get our miles in early so we could make it to the snack shack at the state park before it closed, and BLISS! We got black raspberry milkshakes and loaded up on treats for now and for later, set up hammocks and a timer, dozed for an hour, and rolled on out. The last miles of the day were slow and lovely, and we found another creek for skinny dipping, and then got a lil stoned and blissed out in a beautiful campsite for the evening. Again, the rain came in overnight, and Colin slid a secreted-away pack of Oreos to me under my rain fly as we packed up in the rain. Breakfast of champions. The rain persisted and persisted and persisted, as temps dropped and dropped and dropped. The roads were lovely and the mountain laurel was euphoric, but as I got wetter and colder, my reflexes got slower, and I made a bike handling mistake that I wouldn’t have made in different conditions: I braked hard to avoid missing a turn, and Colin was hotter on my tail than I’d realized, and I caused a crash. Ugh. We both hit the ground. Our bikes were fine, I was fine, Colin got some gross road rash. It could have been so much worse. We keep riding, and I’m starting to lose feeling in my fingers, and Colin notes that it’s 46 degrees. We’d been planning to ride further and camp that night, but decided to see about getting a room to warm up, dry out, and clean some wounds. Success! The very same spot that saved our sorry soggy asses back in 2016 pulled through again! Did a quick grocery run, made and ate a dinner sitting on the floor, and slept like kings.

The following morning, I am so itchy that I am crawling out of my skin. Turns out I was an absolute feast for the bugs at our campsite two nights before, and just didn’t notice it in the pouring rain. Colin says that he heard me moving during the night and thought I was awake, but I was just scratching my bug bites in my sleep. We stop for some topical benadryl and I slather myself in it before we roll out of town onto the rail trail, which felt boring to us, so we hauled ass. We stop at a little ice cream shop for more black raspberry milkshakes, ride along Goldfinch Alley (there are SO many goldfinches on the trail!) and stop to nose around a spot I checked out years ago in the fall with another friend – turns out it’s the best swimming hole I’ve ever been to. We revel in being submerged. Later Colin says that we are dogs, and every body of water is an eleven out of ten for us. He’s not wrong, but this is absolutely top tier swimming. Pure joy. We roll back out, and the air quality is terrible again. I feel a little sad and a little stressed about it. But we are feeling good and feeling strong, so I hit the inhaler and we ride on to our camp for the night. It’s open and unshaded, so once again, we post up under a picnic shelter with hammocks. I contemplate staying in the hammock for the night, but haven’t brought an underquilt since I’m tent camping. It gets below 40 that night, and in the morning, my tent is heavy with condensation, but I’ve slept deeply and feel good, a little emotional as I often get toward the end of an adventure.

In the morning, we drink our coffee on the bank of the fog-covered creek, and ride on out. As the gorge gets steeper and taller and narrower, I revel in feeling hugged by the mountains. I am made of these hills and this stone and these forests, as surely as I am made of blood and bone and muscle.

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