Are trikes for old people, women who can't ride a bike and

>>1051101
no. that would be an insult to retards.

>>1051101
>implying you're smarter than a retard

>>1051101

is it weird to want a less agile bike? yes

should you give a fuck? no

We're living in an age where being uncool is cool, so just wear some pajamas to the store and you're set.

>>1051101
From time to time on a local trail I see a guy on one of those with a 'bike' like that walking two or three dogs. Seems to work well for him.

>>1051101
Can you go up hills with this?
Also do trikes have a differential ?

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I would consider a trike if I had to bring a TON of shit with me. But it's not agile enough for the terrain here, what with dodging traffic, climbing medians and entirely off-road portions. So probably not. This is still my favorite bike I've seen here.

>Women
Triggered.

>>1051215
aside from traction, are fat tires really more comfortable on rough terrain than say 2.35"/60mm wide tires?

>>1051219
I don't know because I haven't owned a cat bike personally, and my dream bike would have tires a bit smaller than that anyways.

>>1051219
On a rigid frame? Yeah, a 4" fatty is going to be a lot cushier than a 2.35". But it's less about comfort and more about that a fat tire can easily tackle sand and mud that would be difficult or unrideable on a 2.35". It's all about ground pressure when you're on soft surfaces.

>>1051215
I wish they made this with a split stay for belt drive

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>>1051215
dat rusty chain

>>1051275
You can get belt drive rholoffs

>>1051434
Yes, which it's why it's so unfortunate that the Tumbleweed >>1051215 (which is expressly designed around using a Rholoff) doesn't have a split stay to install a belt.

>>1051435
Do they make belt tensioners like they make chain tensioners?

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>>1051438
>types "gates belt tensioner bike" into Google image search
Survey says yes

But that doesn't help you if you can't install a belt in the first place.

(Tumbleweed already has an eccentric BB, so no other tensioning devices needed)

>>1051328
>dat dusty chain
ftfy

>>1051435
>doesn't have split stay
>"unfortunate"
nah

At the price the tumbleweed frame is going, you might as well get a custom frame with the split stays if you wanted it could come around to about the same price.

>>1051435
Split dropout seems like a much more elegant design.

>>1051570
That's a fair point, $1450 is pretty exorbitant for a Taiwanese factory-made frame. Especially when you can get a Crust Scapegoat for $825.

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>>1051612
>Crust Scapegoat
you rode your godless satanic bike into the wrong christian image board, heathen

>>1051213
>Also do trikes have a differential ?
No, the drive is to one of the rears. Weird when you turn super sharp but otherwise fine.

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I want to hitch a cargo trike with a trailer for maximum moving potential. Fair warning though it;s a pain in the fucking arse because you have to ride like you're a car so no sneaky pavement hopping to skip a one-way road and things like that.

>>1051213
>>1052956
That's true, you can feel it loose traction if the drive wheel goes over a dip. As for hills, super low gear. People will shout at you to switch to a higher gear, but if you stop on a hill and you're in too high a gear you're fucked. Even happens to me on flats on the rick if I forget to gear down when I stop.

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The turning circle on them is fantastic though.

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>>1051101
When I was little there was an old lady who used to ride one around the neighborhood.
Personally if I needed to carry groceries I'd go for something like this.

>>1052956
If I tried to build a trike, I'd try to drive each rear wheel through its own freewheel- a diff would be overkill since you don't expect a reverse gear in a trike anyway.

I suppose that'd introduce a slight complication in that each rear wheel would need its own brake, though.

This build uses a diff (allegedly). Not a fan of the beach cruiser look but it's a neat trike
https://youtu.be/a2TFR5nYPkQ

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>>1051101
not worth the added expense and maintenance fro what you get out of the extra utility of being able to haul a bigger load

get pic related

>>1051219
Yes, god yes.

4" fat tires are like riding on clouds (and even more so when combined with suspension systems), I zip around on gravel roads and across groundhog pockmarked fields, and I would never go back to a thin tire.

Even in the city, I would suspect that a fat tire would even help with your curbs and hobo blockades.

Even when aired up to the tires maximum recommended air pressure, they're still a smoother ride than a thin wall.

However, if you get one, make sure it has a wide selection of gears, as they take way more effort to get spinning as you are rotating more mass, conversely it's like a big flywheel, so once you are at speed.. you are at speed, no "sudden stopping" allowed unless you have really good disk brakes.

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>>1055156
... a bike-wheelbarrow.

If they came in a 4" fat tire model, I'd eat that up in a heartbeat.

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Bumping before this 404s. I've got a recumbent trike as well as the the type pictured in OP's main photo. I am a fat dude, so I got the occasional pitying looks when I would ride the standard trike. But when I ride my recumbent trike, everyone wants me to stop so they can look at it, ask questions, etc. Have had a few people try it and decide they want to buy one themselves. I deck it out with all kinds of lighting, so it's super visible at night.

As far as riding it, holy hell, it is a blast. Having support for your back and a comfortable seat takes the unpleasantness out of riding. I try to ride every night or early morning before my son wakes up. I wish I'd taken the plunge YEARS ago.

>>1051101
yes

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