Category: bicycle helmets

TRIKE TALKIN’ … COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER TRIKERS

Some of us are fortunate to be able to ride with other trikers. And for those who do ride together it is definitely nice to have radio communication available to use. That sure beats trying to shout to each other. I have always wanted to get some sort of radio communication but all my riding partners have fizzled out so I ride by myself for the last few years.

Here is a video about the subject of radio communication between trikers.

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Why wish upon a star when you can talk to the  One (Jesus) Who created them?

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SYLVIA ANSWERS TWO MOST ASKED QUESTIONS

Being very well known in the triking world Sylvia Halpern gets asked a lot of questions. In this video she answers the two most asked questions … 1)  leg suck and foot retention, and 2) about her helmet visor.

 

I rarely ever wear a helmet when I ride my trike, but I do have a visor similar to Sylvia’s attached to one of my two helmets.

And for me, I only use BMX pedals with nubs on them which do a good job of holding my shoe in place on the pedal. If I hit a bad bump and it causes my foot to leave the pedal my foot always goes up in the air … never down toward the ground. Therefore I personally am not concerned about leg suck. I have used SPD shoes and pedals which I absolutely hated. I have also used heel slings which I liked much better, but I stopped using them as I just did not feel that I needed them. I don’t advise anyone to not use some sort of foot retention as I know there are people who say that their feet go right down onto the ground when they come off of the pedals. I had a friend it happened to the very first and only time he ever rode a tadpole trike. I saw it happen. It hurt like crazy, but he was fortunate that he did not get seriously injured. He was able to continue riding that day.

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E-BIKE CERTIFIED HELMETS

I personally don’t wear a helmet while riding my trike. I always wear one if I ride a bicycle. That being said helmets are not something I give much thought to. It never dawned on me that a standard bicycle helmet is said to be effective as far as protection only up to 17 mph. That makes no sense to me. It is like telling a football player his helmet won’t protect him if he runs faster than 10 mph. It really makes no sense since there are bicyclists who reach speeds of 30+ mph without the aid of an electric motor. Anyway, this video is saying that one needs a different helmet offering more protection when riding an e-bike which obtain speeds up to 28 mph. Of course, some e-bikes go much faster than 28 mph. So then what do you do? I don’t know anything about any of it, but I have long thought that a standard bicycle helmet offers minimal protection … especially compared to a motorcycle helmet.

Ebike certified helmets are more costly than many standard bicycle helmets. All of them I looked at were over $100. One was $465. Ouch!  HERE is an article on them.

One person commented that you should bypass this ebike helmet and go with what downhill mountain bikers use. … which is a full face protection helmet. They are not cheap … $200 to $300 dollars on Amazon … but they definitely do offer more protection.

 

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