Originally Posted by
h0gr1der
Another thing that is taking me longer to get used to is 3 wheels and how they affect the characteristics of the bike. Seems self explanatory, but let me go through this. For me, I noticed that when you have a combination of ruts and road crown together, coupled with the wind off of an 18 wheeler, things can get real interesting fast. As the front tires are clearing the pull out of the 2 tire ruts and approaching the crown, the rear tire falls off into the leftmost rut and causes the bike to react differently than anything I've been used too. All kinds of dynamics there. There is also the visual thing about clearly seeing the front 2 wheels. Junk in the road... I'll just straddle it. BAM. Rear wheel takes the hit. Oops, forgot about that one back there. There is a pretty narrow space you can squeeze an object through under the bike and not hit any wheel, something like a foot and a half or so. I'm still trying to get that right.
Don't give up yet. I had to transition to 3 wheels, looked hard at all the options. Goldwing trike is the gold standard, but now I'm glad I got the Spyder. I can corner it much more sportingly than my last cruiser. That, and the actual gear for reverse made this a great choice. I think these are much more stable than a normal trike. If it ever stops storming I'm going to go put more miles on the one I have.