Tadpole Trike Survey: Your Dream Machine

[Captain]

This is your chance to vote for your favorite specs for a new Tadpole
Trike. Items that are important for you to see on a new design would be
Spec for Material & Design: Frame: Seat: Component Package: Brakes:
Steering: Wheel Rims: Tires: Accessories: MSRP PRICE:

 

[Victor Kan]

Captain wrote:
> This is your chance to vote for your favorite specs for a new Tadpole
> Trike. Items that are important for you to see on a new design would be
> Spec for Material & Design: Frame: Seat: Component Package: Brakes:
> Steering: Wheel Rims: Tires: Accessories: MSRP PRICE:

- Windcheetah-style U-joint steering
- material doesn't matter as long as it's reliable, stable, comfy, efficient
- seat like Bacchetta EuroMesh - great compromise between hardshell and
mesh-only
- weigh 30 lbs or less
- high BB

I'd be OK with a smaller drive wheel if the gearing were stepped up
efficiently a la Dragonflyer if it kept the thing compact.




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[Dave Larrington]

In article <[email protected]>,
Captain ([email protected]) wrote:
> This is your chance to vote for your favorite specs for a new Tadpole
> Trike. Items that are important for you to see on a new design would be
> Spec for Material & Design: Frame: Seat: Component Package: Brakes:
> Steering: Wheel Rims: Tires: Accessories: MSRP PRICE:

Trice XXL with non-Bodylink HP Velotechnik seat, but half the weight...

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[Peter Clinch]

Dave Larrington wrote:

> Trice XXL with non-Bodylink HP Velotechnik seat, but half the weight...

And half the price... ;-)

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[Jeff Grippe]

I think my dream tadpole trike might be a quad. I've always been impressed
with the "Mountain Quad" which is no longer being made. The only thing I'd
change about it is the price. $8K is a lot of money for a pedal power
vehicle that isn't a full velomobile. Speaking of velomobiles, I'd also like
the MQ to have an easily removeable full velomobile shell for all weather
riding.

Jeff
"Captain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This is your chance to vote for your favorite specs for a new Tadpole
> Trike. Items that are important for you to see on a new design would be
> Spec for Material & Design: Frame: Seat: Component Package: Brakes:
> Steering: Wheel Rims: Tires: Accessories: MSRP PRICE:
>

 

[Typhoon Longwang]

Victor Kan wrote:
> - Windcheetah-style U-joint steering
> - material doesn't matter as long as it's reliable, stable, comfy,
> efficient
> - seat like Bacchetta EuroMesh - great compromise between hardshell and
> mesh-only
> - weigh 30 lbs or less
> - high BB
>
> I'd be OK with a smaller drive wheel if the gearing were stepped up
> efficiently a la Dragonflyer if it kept the thing compact.
>
>
>
>
And make it foldable so I don't have to buy some gargantuan hitch rack
to transport it.

TL

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