Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Trikes are slower than bikes not because they are heavier but because they will roll over if they attempt to corner at speeds that are commonplace for bicycles. A quad is somewhat more resistant to rolling over than a trike of the same track and therefore would be faster but not as fast as a bike.
BULLS#IT. Trikes can easily outgun a bike through any corner they wish. I make up time on bikes through corners! If you're rolling a trike trying to keep up with a bike around a corner then you obviously shouldn't be riding a trike. Do you even own a trike?
The best example I can think of to back trikes over quads is to take a page out of motorsport. The trike is the F1 car, cornering flat, braking late and accerlating full boar out of a corner. The bike is a MotoGP bike braking early, accerlating gradually out of a corner then using it's amazing power to weight to blast down a straight @ 330km/h+ . Well guess what? An F1 car is 14+ seconds a lap faster then an MotoGP bike around ANY circuit they test at. Fact. And you can bet it's all via cornerspeed.
As for the a quad cornering faster then a trike. Well depends really, but I race faired trikes on a regular basis and the fastest vehicles through speed traps on corners are always trikes. Greenspeed built a fantastic quad and raced it quite successfully a couple of years back, yet turned up to the same race a year later with a custom trike, citing cornering ability as a reason to race it over the quad. Sure enough, they were easily the fastest through the hairpins on this circuit. Quads are useless with trikes around.
Originally Posted by Leisesturm
On a straight run however both trikes and quads could be faster than a bike and if width were not an issue and the track extended to say 56" or 58" both trikes and quads would be much faster overall than a bicycle as their cornering speeds would be much higher than anything one could attempt on only two wheels.
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A trike will beat a quad because it weighs less and has less cross sectional area, thus less resistance. A bike will beat a trike because it weighs less and has less cross sectional area, thus less resistance.
You have no actual evidence to support these therories you've magically dug out of your head. If you wanna go and ride a quad then feel free, but please don't shove your ideas down people's throats. I will stick with my trike, bike and HPV thanx
