Recumbent - I call it a trike

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megaman
05-13-09, 06:03 PM
I was riding on a MUP the other day and approached this young couple walking along it obviously enjoying each others company and ignoring their surroundings. I rang my bell. I'm not sure anyone hears it but I ring it anyway. As I got close, I startled them and he looks at me and says "What the hell is that!?"
I replied "It's a trike!" He just gave me a weird look and she giggled. I had people pause before calling it a tricycle. Even some members of my family refuse to call it a "trike", implying that's a kid's toy.

I'm not afraid to call it what it is. Sure I could call it a recumbent tricycle, cause that's what it is, but what's so painful about calling what we ride a "trike"?

djwid
05-13-09, 07:54 PM
Its a trike. I called mine a trike, it is simple easy and fun to say.
Floyd
05-14-09, 10:06 PM
Ya gotta call it what it is...a spade a spade...with three wheels it is a trike, tricycle, tri-wheeled vehicle. even a motorcycle with three wheels is a trike. ?is this couple, or guy, gonna wonder or mess with a motorcycle rider who calls his three wheeler a trike?

Tom Bombadil
05-14-09, 10:58 PM
$10,000 road bikes are still "bikes," just like a $69 Wally World special is a bike.

If someone has a problem calling it a trike, then it is their problem.

Would it have helped solve their giggle problem if you told them it was a tadpole?
mikewille
05-15-09, 01:12 AM
Velocipede?
Onus
05-15-09, 04:28 AM
I thought the Wally World special was a "BSO," for "Bicycle Shaped Object." Now darn, I can't remember where I *just* heard that, to give proper credit...

LBS maybe?
BlazingPedals
05-15-09, 06:36 AM
I thought the Wally World special was a "BSO," for "Bicycle Shaped Object." Now darn, I can't remember where I *just* heard that, to give proper credit...

LBS maybe?

I've been calling them that for quite a while. And I can't claim credit for the term, either.

Three wheels makes it a trike - I agree you could call it a 'tadpole' or 'delta' trike to make it sound more specialized.
Mt_Top
05-15-09, 06:22 PM
I like to say "3 wheeled recumbent". Makes people think......
countersTrike
05-16-09, 11:51 AM
I'm not afraid to call it what it is. Sure I could call it a recumbent tricycle, cause that's what it is, but what's so painful about calling what we ride a "trike"?

Not a thing, I just add counters_____ since mine are all a counter-strike to a living room sofa.