Cycling UK Forum

Congrats.

My max distance on my Trice Q is just around the 50 mark.
But I've only had it a couple of months, so give it time as I'm still getting fit.

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If the square section across the bottom of the trailer is hollow, would a single 12mm axle bar the width of the trailer + 2 wheels be better ??
Just put a thread on both ends for the castle nuts and split pins.
That way you won't need to fix the axle bar inside the trailer frame.

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Cycled into Northampton with an empty trailer and the wind behind me, 8.8 miles in 40 mins.
Cycled back against the wind and with ~25kg of shopping in the trailer, 8.8 miles in 1 hour.
It's crawling up the hills at sub 5mph that realy slows your average speed down.

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I get beeped/honked at, at least once a week with my recumbent trike/trailer combo.
I dont know if its because I've slowed them down by ~30 seconds while they wait to overtake me or because they've never seen this type of combo before.
I just give them all a nice friendly wave back.

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The large Carry Freedom trailer has a weight limit of 65kg and at a guess they are the same pins that are used in the small trailer.
As I don't see them making a batch of pins with a weight limit of 45kg for the small trailer and another batch of pins with a weight limit of 65kg for the large trailer.
So I dought very much that Mick has overloaded the pins.
It sounds more like so type of metal fatiuge in the pins spring.
It will be interesting to pull both pins apart as see whats going on inside them.
But that wont help in keeping the evidence of exactly what happened for Carry Freedom to see.

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I would love to repeat the type experiment but with a recumbent trike.
My Trice is just under 1 meter wide and I've found its best to ride ~ 0.3-0.5 meters from the curb with my inside wheel, which is the normal secondary position.
This puts the outside wheel ~1.2-1.4 meters in, very close to the 1.5 meter line.
Would cars still give me plenty of room when they overtake or will they try to squeaze past.
I would try that experiment myself but the widest cycle lane I've found around the Northampton area is only ~1 meter wide and I don't fit in it.

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Its interesting that both axles went within a day of each other.
You would think that ramdom forces would have spread the failures further apart, so that one axle would fail a couple of weeks/months before the other and not within a few hours of the other.

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The first time I used cleats was when I got my Trice Q a couple of months ago.
I've got bad knees, I live on Ibuprofen & Glucosamine to keep them working.
For the first couple of weeks I had slight pains in my knees as I worked out the best position/angle for the cleats.
The trick I found was to see what angle your feet are naturally on the pedals without cleats and try and reproduce that angle with cleats on.
Now I've got them right, cleats as far back as pos and heels angled slightly in them I'm fine, just finished an ~40 miles ride with no pain.
Also I find that if you don't do your shoe up tight then your feet can move slightly in the shoe and this can also help.

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There's a nice contaflow cycle lane in Spencer Lane, Northampton that I'm going to have to cycle down.
It will save me a nasty pull up a hill in heavy traffic.
The only problem is going to be that the cycle path looks narrower than my trike/trailer.
So if I meet something big coming the other way, I could have fun ........

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I've got Schwalbe Kojak's on my Trice.
There's no tread on them.
I've moved my Schwalbe Marathon Racer's onto the trailer.
There's only a little bit more tread on them.

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For a guitar on a trailer, then something like a "Bike Hod" is best.
Two wheels for max stability and attaching to the seat stem means the guitar is carried at an angle from the horizontal, for less trailer length.

A "Carry Freedom" type trailer has two wheels but will carry the guitar horizontal, so will need more trailer length.
A "Bob Yak" type trailer has only one wheel so slightly more unstable and will also probably carry guitar horizontal.

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How wide are the tracks ????

My bike needs ~3' + 6" either side to be safe, that means the cycle part needs to be ~4' x2 or ~8' wide to be safe for two way traffic.
Each pedestrian needs ~18" + 6" to be safe, that means the footpath part needs to be ~6' wide.
The combined width of both parts is ~14' or 4 meters.
I think if the width of the combined path is less than 4 meters wide then its not safe for high speed bike/ped two way traffic.
Any takers ........

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My trouble is that I'm one of the minority cyclists, I ride a recumbent trike and pull a trailer, my bike is ~9' long and ~3' wide.
For me to use a cycle path safely, it really needs to be a minimum of 5' wide, so if I'll meet anybody I/they can pass safely.
All the combined footways/cyclepaths in my area are only ~3' wide, so that IF I meet anyone on them, one of us have to leave the footway/cyclepath to pass.
All the cycle lanes on the roads are around 18"-2' wide, I normally can only get my inside wheel in them, unless I want to really ride in the gutter when I can get the back wheel in the lane as well.
All the ASL are only half the length of the bike and trailer, and I cannot get to them anyway as the filter lanes are too narrow.

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You need to put the light in a strange place.
Like at the top of the flag pole.
Or even lights all the way up the flag pole.
That way you'll look different from behind vs a DF bike.

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kwackers wrote:The time of the amber light wasn't really my point, it was the time between the red on one side and the green on the other. There just wasn't enough dead time to allow a normal speed cyclist to get across safely if the lights were about to change as they went through.
Is this a problem? I don't know, I mentioned it as a problem I'd observed in the past about at least one junction I was aware of. Normally I'm pretty quick so wouldn't usually notice whether there was a problem with timing.

You should try the single track bridges over the canal's around Northampton.
If I go in just after the start of the green, then I'll only get 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through before traffic starts coming the other way.
On a bike it would be ok-ish, but I ride a trike which takes up half the carriageway.
And its even more fun if I have traffic behind me ............

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