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About Healthy Habits and our special prize:
We’d like to thank owner Bruce Grell and his team at Healthy Habits in Bettendorf for helping us line up this month’s prize: a Specialized Sirrus, flat-bar road bike and helmet (retail value of nearly $600). The crew at Healthy Habits has offered to size the bike and helmet to fit the winner, so there’s no excuse when it comes to picking up your bike and hitting the trail.
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Editor’s Note: We made a few modifications to Walt’s comments so they could be easier to read.
I am retired and so do not ride a bike to work but i ride to stores and events and on errands. I have 3 recumbent trikes and one recumbent bike as well as 3 standard bikes and 2 senior trikes. my friend is texas says you can’t have to many bikes.
I believe in leaving the car parked as much as possible and use it only when going longer distances, or in bad weather, or when my wife needs to go some where. We are both in our 7th decade and handicap. Her interest in bikes has become much less whereas mine has increased to almost the point for obsession.
Some may say that I am.
I don’t let that stop me from using the hpv’s for all my errands possible. Since she has contacted mild demintia, she wants to go places in the car most of the time but earlier she rode the bikes with me then recumbent trikes, then senior trikes, as has a hard time getting up off the recumbent trike now, due to her health issues.
We tried several methods of hvp travel and settled on a recumbent trike with an arnold coupling attached, so i could remove the front wheel from the trike she was riding and attached the front forks to the arnold connection on the back of my lead recumbent trike, a 2007 sun ez-3 usx. On this trike i also have a draw bar hitch and for a time had a car trailer ball hitch on it also, to pull the car trailer to lowe’s to get lumber. Every one looked this over and one auto driver stopped me to visit about it.
Next, as we both got weaker due to our ages and handicaps, I had the small ring gear up front removed, and one about half as large installed for more power going up hill pulling her. Just a note: I put hitches on all of our trikes so at any time, with any one of them, we can tow my child’s trailer converted into my utility hauler, or my heavy duty garden wagon converted into a heavy duty trailer by removing the front axle assembly and moving the rear axle ahead a foot, installing a long tongue under the bed and a hitch on the rear or for pulling one senior trike I put on a fold up tongue on, that she rides making use of the other trikes possible.
Two years ago, wife and I on two recumbent trikes towed home from Lowe’s topsoil and other gardening supplies, a grosse load weight total including ourselves of 1000 pounds.
My favorite trike is a sun X-3, on which I have two hitches, a standard draw bar and another one I made special, to tow a one wheel trailer that I made from a 24 inch child’s bike. It pulls so easy with only one wheel on the ground. I put a plywood shelf on it them a large plastic tub with a large bike basket on behind it. We have only around 1500 miles or so on all the units together but they have become our physical therapist and our stress busters, as well as our ‘go fer units’ to get things needed at home or for the garden, or to deliver garden produce, or just to ride bike paths enjoying the sites.
We made a bike trailer towed by the car, 7′ x 8′ to transport as many units as needed to more distant paths to ride with friends meeting us at the site or with friends we take with us.
I find bikes folk throw out, fix them up and give them to needy folk in my spare time. Am working on number 19 at the present time.
Walt Wermuth