Originally Posted by
mriley
Get real. Most of the people actually riding trikes are older guys (like me) with some health problem (broken hip, stroke, Parkinsons, etc) that prevent them from riding a DF bike, even if they wanted to. Much of the time there is no choice between a DF bike and a trike, just the choice between riding and not riding. I'd love to go back to my road bike, but it's not going to happen.
M Riley
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. We have both 2 wheel recumbents (Sunsets/ M5's) , upright road bikes (gitane/motobecane) and trikes (KMX) that the kids (16,14,11 and 9) ride. After they got on the bents I can't get them back on a road bike to save my life. For longer distances they like the 2 wheelers, for tooling around in the park they like the trikes. Telling them to ride the DF's just gets me a chorus of complaints.
The 16 y.o. really wants a velomobile.
Kids, having no preconceptions, will gravitate to the most comfortable and efficient platform. Form Follows Function.