As for wet trikking, geeze, my jury's out on that.

My nature is to put the pedal to the metal, and it's a psychological challenge for me to take it easy on the carves. Every time I do wet surfaces I come away having scared myself. I think you're right though. Wet carving WILL give you practice being aware of that a feel for one's starting to lose traction that will be necessary to have when you're carving at the limits of traction on dry surfaces.

On the other hand, I carve hard a lot, and so I'm at that breaking point often, so who needs wet surfaces to practice this control, eh? Like, it's ho hum, old hat, when my wheels start jitter-bumping and threatening to break into an all out skidding. I've gotten my reflexes honed quite a bit by "going for" that jitter-bumping. Now when it happens, I'm far less likely to panic, because I know that there's mild jitter-bumping and "oh no here goes a broken elbow" jitter-bumping, and that as long as I stay somewhere between those two extremes, then I'm controlling my jitter-bumping. I don't think jitter-bumping is efficient carving however, but it happens enough that one should practice it so that it doesn't panic you into abandoning the carve altogether.

Edg

It was raining the day I receiver my first Trikke and even though Trikke literature suggest not to ride on wet roads I just could not wait to try out my new toy. I did survive un-scathed but decided at the time that maybe they were right…I almost lost it a few times. Jumping to our get together at Trikke Tech this past summer…I had asked Gildo if he had any suggestions on improving my Trikking…one of the things he mentioned was riding in the rain. Living in S Cal, rain is something we do not see very much of. Therefore, when we received some last week I just had to go out and give it another shot. I am not suggesting that everyone try this, but if you are feeling a little adventuress…it’s kind of fun if you take it easy and slowly build up you confidence in your handling skills. If anyone is thinking of trying this please tone it down a bit at first and keep the rocking part of the Trikke motion down to a minimum. Controlled power sliding is a blast! -- Claudio