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[kevinmccune]

Out of curiosity, do you ride locally or do you transport your bikes? Have you given any thought on how you will transport a trike or quad?
I'm also looking at them, but I ride exclusively trails in some remote locations. Transporting would be necessary and I'm not sure how I would do it.

the best way IMO would be to have a small trailer if you have something to pull it with,I do have a hitch on my Maverick truck let and I probably will end up getting a "Tractor Supply" trailer special,now I am sure there are plenty on the craigslist or whatever,all you need is a class one type hitch adaptable to most any compact car,my brother had a hitch on His Taurus and used a "Leonard" two wheel trailer behind it for years,there's another plus with a hitch,its an excellent recovery point.Good luck on your journey a quadricycles makes so much sense and the way it looks now a quadricycles is actually cheaper then a reverse trike.

 

[6zfshdb]

the best way IMO would be to have a small trailer if you have something to pull it with,I do have a hitch on my Maverick truck let and I probably will end up getting a "Tractor Supply" trailer special,now I am sure there are plenty on the craigslist or whatever,all you need is a class one type hitch adaptable to most any compact car,my brother had a hitch on His Taurus and used a "Leonard" two wheel trailer behind it for years,there's another plus with a hitch,its an excellent recovery point.Good luck on your journey a quadricycles makes so much sense and the way it looks now a quadricycles is actually cheaper then a reverse trike.

A definite possibility, but parking will be an issue at many of the trailheads I frequent.

 

[kevinmccune]

I remember being given a script for a pain killer after the surgery and I took it to the pharmacy.
He said it was for a "special elixir" that he had to whip up and said "you don't need this do you?"

I said no, not knowing what he was getting at?
I was told that I would be in bedridden for a week, hobbled for a month and not fully healed for up to 6 months.
I had no intention of waiting that long and went cross-country skiing three days later.

I was afraid of ripping my stitches, and wanted to feel any damage that I might be doing.


I can thank my Lucky 's for refusing the fancy elixir.

I had no idea what an Opioid was at the time, and I may well have avoided the painful road to death from an addiction that's harder to kick than smoking.

I also kept on refusing the freezing at the dentist and it kinda floored the dentist.
He said the only other patient (of over 1500 patients) to refuse the freezing was a world War 2 Vet.

I wasn't trying to show off, or be tough, brave, or cool.
I just wanted to get it over with without waiting for the freezing to kick in.
It was just a tiny cavity that didn't hurt, so it wasn't into the nerve so I wouldn't feel the drilling anyway.

I had another two teeth pulled when I was 19 to make room for my teeth to move when I got braces.
Braces are for kids, but I didn't like the gap between my two front teeth.

I wasn't gunna refuse the freezing for that appointment, but after my dentist Struggled for 10 minutes to rip the one tooth outta my mouth (he was shaking my whole head around trying to yank it out), I felt him cut through the gum below the tooth.

It didn't hurt, but I could feel it enough to know that he cut through my gum, so I shook my head a bit to say "WTF Are You DOING !!??"

He said "Did you feel that?"
I said "Yeah !", so he put more freezing in.

It turned out that my tooth was so well rooted into my jaw that he had to cut through the gum to cut the root in half, and pull the tooth out in two pieces.
He said it was it was the most difficult tooth extraction that he'd ever done.

I actually fell asleep once in the dentist chair.
He must have thought I passed out or died, cuz he kinda poked me to wake me up.


I want to get my own dentist chair.
It's the most comfortable and adjustable chair I've ever been seated in.
I'll make sure it comes with the drill so I can turn that on to help lul me off to sleep.

Some people use pink noise or the sound of waves to help them fall asleep, while other people are just Bat Crap Crazy lol

I do my own stitches now too.
I use crazy glue though because it's faster and easier than needle and thread.

I've got a scar in my left eyebrow from the stitches I got when I was two years old after running into the corner of a coffee table.

I crashed my mountain bike when I was in my thirties and went to my family doctor to get stitched up, but he said I needed to go to the hospital because he didn't have the equipment to do stitches.

I didn't want to wait half a day in the ER, so I went home and glued it back together.
It was a tricky procedure to look in the mirror and pinch the cut shut with one hand while gluing it with the other hand.

BUT, that wound healed up without leaving Any Scar at all.
The only scar in that eyebrow was from when I was two, and the scar in my right eyebrow was from when I caught yet another hockey stick in the face when I was playing "road hockey " in the driveway with my neighbor when I was 8 or 9 years old.

7 is my magic number for stitches funny thing was when the baseball bat cut my eyebrow,no stitches and it healed within a week,no scar,the other times involving concussions always required stitches.crazy glue was invented for wartime injuries.

 

[kevinmccune]

A definite possibility, but parking will be an issue at many of the trailheads I frequent.

well I bit the bullet and ordered an acoustic 4 wheeler should be here around may,one thing I failed to notice till l had already bought the thing it was a single speed,guess i'll get a bike mechanics to put a 5-6 spd freewheel on it,going to be meddling with the drive system anyway when I put a powerful middrive on it hoping my friend still has that 20 ah 52 volt battery

@kevinmccune
I'm not even sure which way a reverse trike is built, but I found this picture of a Bionx conversion trike,..

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It looks like Bionx is just a conversion Kit ??

And I just realized that having a single rear wheel makes everything a lot easier to convert.
You don't need a differential and all the complications of trying to put power through the differential.

I don't know what you think about a recumbent e-trike, but I found this style of trike where you'd be more upright, which you might prefer?

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I have no idea what kind trike that is? It might be homemade?

But if you could find some sort of trike that you're comfortable riding, putting a rear wheel hub motor kit would be relatively easy.

You'd need to keep your dropout spacing and axle diameter in mind when choosing a kit, and I would think that any old regular hub drive e-bike would work as a doner for all the electrics that you would need?

I'm just guessing, but you might be able to get a front end dual wheel conversion kit that attaches to the ebike you already have?

I suspect due to my spinal injuries a recumbent would probably paralyze my left leg( happens in bad slumpy seats)