Every day now, my Trikke 8 sessions are turning into scouting for "if I had a Roadster I'd go there and do that" spots. And they're everywhere!

For instance, I've got a nice route I'm going to try the very first time I'm on the roadster: It's a 100 foot stretch of lawn down a hillside that feeds onto a small parking area and then past the parking area is another 10 foot wide piece of lawn and then off/over/down a curb and then onto the main parking area. I figure I'm in for the thrill that compares well with a typical Roller Coaster ride. And yet, I'm thinking it will be, because of my Trikke 8 training, just about as safe as if the whole route were asphalted. We'll see, eh?

That's just one day dream. Once you try to see the world through Roadster eyes, all these little opportunities to cut across a strip of lawn, go off a curb, cross a gravel path, etc. are seen for the first time as coming adventures instead of blockades and hindrances. I have whole parking lots I avoid because they're too eroded for comfortable Trikke 8 riding, but if the Roadster can handle it, and everyone is telling me that it will, then I will have tons more places where mounds, "sewer depressions," curbs, dirty-gravel-strewn areas, now beckon to me as not only do-able but pleasurable challenges.

I've amped up my trikking schedule. Putting more time into uphill training and other power-moves. When the Roadster comes, I sure don't want to have to stop to catch my breath just because I'm lugging around the Roadster's extra weight.