Tricycle article in Guardian

artaxerxes
artaxerxes Posts: 612
edited April 2009 in Commuting chat
Interesting article in today's Guardian

On your trike

Now if you could rent these out in Sainsbury's or Tesco's to take your weekly shop home, that would be perfect.

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    I see a woman with something similar, only two kids seats on the front, pushing it up the hill in Greenwich Park every day. It looks heavy as hell, and she really puts her back into pushing it :shock: Fair play to her though she does it come rain or shine, and when the weathers really foul, let's the kids stay undercover on the front.
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    So do I! Is she East Asian?
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    I see lots like that out in the country or on the islands in Sweden - also little moped-based versions. Properly useful but aye, less fun on hills I imagine!

    Shame it was nicked :(
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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Yep, she looks absolutely knackered by the top, but she's always there the next morning :shock:

    Where do you come in from? we've probably passed each other
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    We struggle to get enough room on the roads with only 2 wheels, imagine the motorists outcry if these things were common on our roads, they wouldn't even fit on most of the "cycle lanes" around my manor! Plus they'd be too slow to keep up with the traffic, they'd block the roads at traffic lights and be slow at accelerating.

    It's a poorly conceived gimmick that'll never catch on........I'm out!
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    i've seen a few around here, mostly in Bushy park. look rather fun have to say, i suspect they would get more room than your normal bike, i get more with big green and it's full paniers.
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    I come up from the direction of Lee Terrace through Blackheath Village. Yep we probably have passed each other (more likely you have passed me in my crappy brown hybrid).
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    linoue wrote:
    I come up from the direction of Lee Terrace through Blackheath Village. Yep we probably have passed each other (more likely you have passed me in my crappy brown hybrid).

    I come over Shooters Hill, and enter the park from the side. Keep an eye out for a red Trek 1.5 road bike entering the roundabout at the top of the hill at speed from the right. I'm normally in red and white as well, as I'm a complete tart :roll:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • Specialized Needs
    Specialized Needs Posts: 802
    Dacre Park, down past St Joseph's, up Heath Lane and over to Elverson DLR was part of my commute when I started last year. Then I decided I'd rather risk the roundabout at Lewisham DLR than a coronary on the hills. I might start going back that route what with the recent traffic due to the roadworks on Blackheath - and it is more pleasant. I'm sure I'll be better on the hills now ... not :roll:
  • jamesco
    jamesco Posts: 687
    linoue wrote:
    Now if you could rent these out in Sainsbury's or Tesco's to take your weekly shop home, that would be perfect.

    Rather nicely, our local Waitrose lends bike trailers for free, they just have to be returned within a few days.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    One of these passed through a junction in Fulham this morning, and a gentleman walking passed turned to me and said "how about that, eh?" in a "why haven't you got one of those" tone...
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  • Specialized Needs
    Specialized Needs Posts: 802
    biondino wrote:
    One of these passed through a junction in Fulham this morning, and a gentleman walking passed turned to me and said "how about that, eh?" in a "why haven't you got one of those" tone...
    So, you look like the kind of person who would need one of these, then :wink:

    How much were you carrying to work?
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    duncedunce wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    One of these passed through a junction in Fulham this morning, and a gentleman walking passed turned to me and said "how about that, eh?" in a "why haven't you got one of those" tone...
    So, you look like the kind of person who would need one of these, then :wink:

    How much were you carrying to work?

    I bet it was the stabiliser's that gave it away :wink:
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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    jamesco wrote:
    linoue wrote:
    Now if you could rent these out in Sainsbury's or Tesco's to take your weekly shop home, that would be perfect.

    Rather nicely, our local Waitrose lends bike trailers for free, they just have to be returned within a few days.
    We used to use a slightly modified kid trailer to haul teh weekly shop home. Unfortunately it got a bit knackered when I was towing it with a huge suitcase on board. Filtering past a van, the passenger kindly waited for me to pass and then opened his door which promptly hooked the trailer and near instantly brought the whole rig to a stop.

    Fortunately it was fairly low speed, so I was fine bar a few bruises - but the trailer was a bit skew to say the least.
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