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Old 07-09-16 | 03:51 PM
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From: Should have made a left turn near Albuquerque.

Bikes: 1995 Trek 820, 1994 Trek 930 (project), 1/2 of a 1980s Colin Laing tandem

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Definitely appreciate the scenery more and also the company. I've got a few triker friends and we've done a lot of long days, even a few centuries.

I've told this before but here goes again. My cancer came back 6 years after my prostatectomy and I had 8 weeks of M thruF radiation treatments and 6 months of Lupron and Casodex drugs. My trike was my biggest buddy and kept me sane. I kept it in the car and rode it to breakfast every day after treatments. Since then, if I'm sick or feeling low, I hop on my trike. I can't ride it without grinning.

I went back to uprights in late 2013 after a back therapist relieved my pain for the first time in 30 years. Mainly exercises. I still kept my trikes but sold all of my two wheel bents.

To be honest, if my wife wasn't a hammerhead, I'd probably ride my trikes most of the time but she still likes to ride fast and hard so I ride an upright and tandem for her.
You said you only use the flag for city riding. So, you feel like the minivans, SUVs, pick-ups see you well enough without it on the more rural roads? I gues a wide shoulder *would* help. And you must get a very different work-out from the upright. Do you feel it more in your lower abdomen as it seems like you would?
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