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Sue's Survey

1. What do you like better about the Roadster?

The grip it and rip it traction. Hands down, it's the one thing about Big Bruiser that continually comes to my attention when trikking.

I get an amazing full extension on my carving leg.

I can lean ridiculously far over.

Debris? Phihhhhhh!

I have zero concern about slippage and skidding for 95% of the things I do.

Even on the hardest carves, skidding and jitter-bumping are much more controllable and have a wider controlled-to-uncontrolled spectrum of which gives me the time in which to make nuanced decisions about whether to abandon the carve or carve harder or less. Nice to be able to decide whether or not to panic. On the 8, panic was always the first choice on top of the list.

The silence.

I didn't realize how much noise was a part of my Trikke 8 experience. Triunus is a stealth ghost.

The bounce. I have, I think, only just begun, but I am now working with the "bounce" in the tires to use it for gaining momentum. After you begin to push your carving foot down-outwards, first the tire must compress. It absorbs as much of your pressure as it can before it begins to pass it down through the wheel to the pavement. Once your pushing energy hits an irresistible object, you get your mass behind the carve, but somewhere during the carve the carving tire will rebound to resume it's normal shape, and I am working to make sure that that rebounding is harmonized with so that it pushes Rex Gargantua forward. What this feels like is that you're bouncing with the wheels and your become part of the "spring action." Sometimes I feel the lift of the tire increasing my height just that little bit -- I sense the upwards aspect of the movement.

The disk brakes. They are just amazing, and I am still learning to develop my touch with them. They make backwards trikking much more challenging, but yowsa yowsa yowsa hot doggy when I am screeching-sliding-into-home-plate-halt in a swinging 180 with rocks and dust spritzing everywhere! Did I mention I'll be wearing out Brawnabubba's tires much faster?
 

2. What do you like better about the trikke 8 (if anything) and do you still ride your trikke 8?
The lighter weight. It's ten less pounds to sling around when you're practicing your 360's. I know all my tricks on the 8 pretty good, but on Fat Boy, I'm just beginning to approach my former expertise.
 

3. Which do you ride more, the trikke 12 or the trikke 8?

I only ride Trikkeceratops exclusively. Right now, I consider it as if I am learning trikking for the first time. It's that different a beast. I plan on riding the 8 again after I get my chops down. THEN, I will be able to really get a rush off the "newness" of the 8 -- but from my experienced viewpoint. It should be an eye opener. Frankly, I expect the 8 to hold it's own in various ways, for instance, I can accelerate much faster with the 8 (so far that is, I'm getting faster out of the chute, but I need to work with "the bounce" more) and this makes me feels really good to get up to speed fast -- a jock thing, methinks.
 

4. Have you had a flat with the Trikke 12 yet?

Nope
 

5. Have you experienced any on going mechanical problems like rubbing wheels or with disc brakes or anything like that?
Yes, but minor. Took it to a bike shop for final tweaking. Back wheels don't roll very well, but Claudio says ride them for 100 miles, before I decide about them. And Claudio's the man!
 

6. If you could only have one trikke, which would it be - a trikke 12 or a trikke 8?

Masher is my choice, but I know I'll really really enjoy my first reunion with the 8. I miss it right now, because it won't punish me with the need for stronger muscles.
 

7. Are you going to keep your trikke 8?

Absolutely. The Tractionator is the obviously choice. It's just a much bigger fitness-universe that it offers, but I want to buy a NEW 8 sport....only have the original. The old one is going to be our guest-trikke. I think, after I get my rubber chops, I'm going to have a very nice surprise on the nimbleness of the 8.