Originally Posted by
chandltp
Before you decide on a trike, test ride 2 wheeled recumbents too. Go somewhere that you can test ride as many as possible. I got a trike (loved the idea of it, some parts of it, but ended up going to 2 wheels). With 2 wheeled recumbents I had to ride about 8 different ones before I found "the one". What I thought I wanted when I went to the store isn't what I came home with.
Pretty much my experience too.
Before we bought our first recumbent Mrs. Grouch and I took a 500 mile road trip to the Rans factory in Hays, Kansas. After the shortest of test rides we knew that the bike we had originally intended to buy was obviously the wrong one. I recently made the decision to go from 2 wheels to 3. That took a little longer of an adjustment but I am delighted with the decision. I can't tell you how happy I am to be riding a tadpole trike now.
There are many different recumbent designs and they all ride a little bit differently. There is no simply adequate alternative to going some place where there are a lot of different recumbents to see, talk about and test ride.