Getting to know my new tadpole - every ride brings new insight.
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Getting to know my new tadpole - every ride brings new insight.
I have close to 200 miles on my new-to-me ICE Sprint tadpole trike, and have been getting quite comfortable with it. I learned something new last weekend while riding the local rails to trails path: It is intuitive to straddle piles of horse droppings, but you really shouldn't be tempted to do it.
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Straddling pot holes is usually bad, too; although for different reasons.
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On my tadpole I had very little trouble learning to put a pothole or whatever between a front wheel and the back wheel.
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One of the worst trails I ever rode on was a packed dirt trail located somewhere near Joliet Illinois. It wasn't the horse droppings that were so annoying but the fact that the horses' hooves had turned the surface into a washboard. It was enough to loosen the fillings in your teeth. I heard they eventually paved the trail. If you are going to ride bike trails shared with horses at the very least you should add a rear fender.
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