Hey fellow trikesters, being a lifelong cyclist I recently got into trikes, E trikes. I have been riding about a year now. I have two trikes a rodie trike and a mountain trike. I want to pass on a couple of things I have experienced and learned that I hope will be helpful to other newbies as well as veteran Trikers. Building my two trikes into E-trikes was quite an experience and if you are so inclined and want to ask questions on the what and how of that I am most willing to pass on what I have learned. Both trikes use Shimano Di2 derailleurs too, I can help there if you want to go that way (saves a lot of room on the handlebars, never miss a shift). Before I got into e-trikes I had, and have e-bikes, both street, and mountain, so I learned a lot from that before I built up my trikes. My mountain trike is a full suspension Stein Wild One, and my Rodie is a HP Velotechnik Scorpion both 20" X 26" wheels. One of the biggest issues I had was with my HP and the "death wobble" when I let go of the bars. I was running Schwalbe Kojack 20 X1.35 upfront with a Schwalbe 26" X 1.95 Marathon Plus on the rear. At first, I could not understand why the bike wobbled as when I ran the same setup on the Stein it was rock steady, so I searched everywhere for a good answer, never found one. Then I put Schwalbe Marathon Plus 20 X1.95 tires upfront on the HP, wobble gone, steady as a rock. No Caster and Camber are adjustable for any trike I have seen unless you can fit one of those adjustable headsets into your trike, I bought some from England but fitment was not possible, so I suffered for a while until I changed tries. How could a tire change make that much difference? My point here is I still don't know, The only real differences are the size from 1.35 to 1.95, and a bit of weight as the Marathons are heavier than the Kojacks. Of course, I made sure the headsets were properly adjusted and that "toe" was set properly. I thought I didn't have the wobble on the Stein as its full suspension front uses a kingpin double A-arm suspension design and is adjustable for camber (which I never changed from factory spec) because it was a fully suspended suspension, but now I am not sure. I'd like to know if the tires can really make all that much of a difference.
Anyway, thanks for letting me join in I sure love riding a trike. No more back pain, wrist pain, & shoulder pain!! After 40 years it is time to relax on a open-wheeled human-powered (well a little bit of help now
..) trike!
Anyway, thanks for letting me join in I sure love riding a trike. No more back pain, wrist pain, & shoulder pain!! After 40 years it is time to relax on a open-wheeled human-powered (well a little bit of help now
..) trike!
