Down Shady Canyon Bike Trail on my Recumbent Trike

[Eirik280TE]

Is is you, or is the trike much slower than normal racers and 2wheel-recumbents ?

[dregerclock]

@Eirik280TE - well of course any bike or trike's speed is really only as fast as the biological engine (me) ... but all things being equal, a trike is generally heavier than other kinds of bikes, has an extra wheel (traction) touching the ground, but also enjoys a bit of an aerodynamic advantage. The weight can also be an advantage on downhills, and a disadvantage on uphills. But I find my trike is about as fast as my mountain bike... a road bike would generally be faster.

[rhurbarb]

Thats a good speed m8 keep it up ...

[rhurbarb]

Thats quite fast ,reached 44mph on my mountain bike and i still wanna go faster ...lol

[dregerclock]

I did this same hill last weekend again... hit 38 mph this time!

Also did a ride down a 10% grade road the other week an had the trike up to 42! that was a blast. It handled good at that speed. I was not sure how it would steer above 40 but it did good.

[rhurbarb]

Cool how fast can you get out of that ?

[dregerclock]

In this video I just rolled down the hill... without pedaling and I hit 32 mph. Probably could not go too much faster because you would need a HUGE gear in the front and much smaller gear in the back. but it might be possible to get it up to 36- 40 pedaling like a madman. My friend on his two wheeled recumbent bike hit 43 mph down that hill before he backed off.