Hiding a trike camp just off the road … with a bathroom at the station!
Highway 395, between Susanville California and Reno Nevada:
From Hi-Viz desert road triking to Low-Viz wild stealth mode, on a recumbent trike!
For more videos by this wild Arizona desert triker, click HERE.
Recumbent Urban Tricycle BEE
Universal urban tricycle – commuter, cargo, sport and fun in one – Speed of 25 km/h in easy with EASY RIDERS comfort – with child, picnic basket and a tent, protected from rain, with wind in the hair or without all year long. Improve your health, save money, protect environment! Thanks for the comments! Update for 2020: this vehicle is being developed further, with a view to commercial production. More info at: http://www.weathervelo.com
The Most Beautiful Trike Trail in the World: East Shore Lake Tahoe
Visit this channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@bikestrikesrazors/videos
the FIREFLY talks about Arkel, Ortlieb, and Lone Peak rack trunks!
The “Firefly Recumbent Trike Adventures” host discusses pros and cons of the Arkel Tailrider, Ortlieb Rack Pack, and Lone Peak Rack Pack rear rack trunks:
Link to the FIREFLY’s YouTube channel for more discussions:
https://www.youtube.com/@Firefly-trike/videos
Trike Hobo pitching his new Hilleberg Niak tent … a quick and easy pitch!
Hilleberg tents do not use a rainfly, which is one of the underlying core tenets behind the designs. Back in 1970, Bo Hilleberg, a Swedish outdoorsman, began tinkering around with designing a more ideal tent because he hated the rainfly of traditional tents (hard to put on in windy conditions, tent gets wet when setting up in rainy conditions before the fly is put over it). His thoughts over 50 years ago mirror how I have always felt about rainflies … they were a necessary evil that I always dealt with in wind and rain. Bo was the first to invent a tent that can be set up in the wind and rain without the tent getting wet or the rainfly blowing away.
Bo’s design idea, in what eventually became his famous Hilleberg tent line, was to eliminate the rainfly to make the tent easier to set up and more practical to use in the field. Hilleberg tents are actually two tents in one: There is an inner tent and an outer tent, and both pitch simultaneously as you saw in this video here. The inner tent is connected to the outer tent, and is a few inches inside the outer tent. The outer tent is 100% waterproof silicone coated material, which is superior to most tents that use polyurethane to waterproof their rainflies. Polyurethane goes bad over the years, begins smelling awful, and flakes off eventually, a real mess, but silicone never has these issues.
So in this video of mine, the green portion of the tent is the outer waterproof tent. The yellow portion you can see is the inner tent, hooked inside the outer tent, and several inches away from the outer tent. The whole thing pitches together, so the inner tent (where you sleep) never gets wet even if set up in the rain. The outer tent’s silicone waterproofing is on both sides of the material (called sil/sil), which is better than a small handful of tents nowadays that use silicone on the outside of the material and polyurethane on the inside of the material (called sil/poly). The standard conventional tent, even today, uses polyurethane totally on their rainflies, which is less costly to produce, but will not last.
Learn more about the Niak at this link:
https://hilleberg.com/eng/tent/yellow-label-tents/niak/
Nice set of used trike panniers for sale at an affordable price (US postage paid)
My long-time Canadian triking buddy Glen Aldridge is selling his set of blue Lone Peak trike bags, now that he is using a trailer to carry his gear, and since his trike is now electrified. The bags are in good condition, all fully functional and intact. The set includes a pair of Lone Peak Mt. Superior side panniers (54 liters volume between the pair), a Lone Peak Deluxe Rack Pack rear trunk (16 liters volume), and rain covers. The total volume carrying capability of this set is 70 liters.
This pannier setup is the same as I now use personally on my trike, so I can vouch for the quality of Lone Peak bags. The difference is that my bags are gold color instead of blue.
Glen has set the price at $150, very reasonable considering the products and quality, and will cover postage if buyer lives in the USA. If buyer lives elsewhere, he will cover 50% of the shipping costs. For interested potential buyers, Glen Aldridge can be reached in southwestern Canada via his email at: daytriker@gmail.com
Here is a photo of this same Lone Peak pannier set on my trike, fully loaded:
Firefly Recumbent Trike Adventures, ready to roll on another great desert getaway!
Visit his YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@Firefly-trike/videos
Mounting my Lone Peak panniers and top trunk on the rear rack of my trike!
Link to Mt. Superior 54 liter panniers by Lone Peak:
https://lonepeakpacks.com/product/mount-superior-pannier/
Lone Peak Mt. Superior panniers and Deluxe Rack Pack trunk, for Trike Hobo!
NEW FOR NOVEMBER 2023 ON MY RECUMBENT TRIKE:
Links to these products:
Mt. Superior Panniers
Deluxe Rack Pack Trunk
Recumbent Trike Touring Advice … from the Firefly!
To hear the Firefly’s trike touring tips, click HERE.
The Nine Wheels: the adventurous Schneeberger family’s epic cycling in Europe
When mother Laëtitia was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease, the bike-addicted family left their conventional life completely behind and is now traveling as “Les 9 Roues” all over Europe – mainly from bikepark to bikepark, always together, mostly riding their bicycles and Laëtitia’s Scorpion trike , which adds up to nine wheels in total.
Riding a recumbent trike with disabilities, by Sherri
The playback of her video on other websites (such as Trike Asylum) has been disabled by her, so I cannot show the video to you here, but you can watch it on YouTube by just clicking on the following link:
RIDING A RECUMBENT TRIKE, BY SHERRI
Adaptive recumbent trike options for disabled riders, from AZUB
Here is a link to the AZUB webpage that discusses options:
AZUB Disabled Rider Page
FREE ON THREE: my big 2011 recumbent trike book now available, free download
This book was published in May of 2011, as an introduction to recumbent tricycles. I am offering it now as a free download for anyone who wants to read it in its entirety. Click the link below, which will open the PDF (portable document format) file. It is 736 pages, so it takes a little time to load (be patient). From there, you can download it to your computer for reading at your leisure. Here is the download link:
Free On Three May 2011
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NOTE AS OF OCTOBER 2023:
This book has now been republished with another company, and is available for purchase at approximately half the price of the original edition from 2011. If you wish the new version (with a sepia cover instead of color), you can purchase it at this link:
Free On Three … republished 2023
New Edition:
Safe and Secure Full-Foot Support Pedals for Recumbent Trikes!
The following recumbent trike pedals (from Utah Trikes) are far superior for recumbent trikers when compared to clipless pedals (toe pedaling). Both types secure the feet to the pedals (won’t slip off), which is a good thing, but the advantages of the following pedals from Utah Trikes (over clipless) are:
1) You pedal with the entire foot, not just the toes (forefeet).
2) You do not experience Nerve Compression Syndrome (hotspots) as occurs with clipless.
3) You have MUCH more power on each pedal stroke (immediately noticeable on hills).
4) Your ankle joints are stabilized, eliminating the chance for trauma and injury.
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