After my rather serious accident on my motor bike, I have kinda agree to ride a trike, or at least the stabilized bike. That being the case, I have been keeping my eye out for a trike to motorize.
If you know me at all, you know I build with thrift store bikes. So you can imagine my sticker shock at the price of trikes. I know most of you would think nothing of dropping almost three bills on a wal mart Schwinn trike. Probably even go more than that for a better quality one.
In my case I have been lurking on Craig's list hoping for a deal. So today bright and early, wife and I drove down to the other end of town to look at a garage sale with an adult trike. The guy wouldn't put a price in the ad. nor did he put an email or a phone number.
When we got there, after a ridiculously difficult time finding him, I found that it was a Miami Sun trike. He was asking 250 for it and I'm sure it would be worth it to most people. But since I am going to hack it up for a motorized version, it's a little more than I want to spend. Actually it's twice what I want to spend. If I were willing to go with that price, I think I would buy the meridian with the short warrantee anyway. plus it would come in a box so that I could get it into the car.
Anyway, I didn't buy it. Oh yeah it had a sign that said the trick sold retail from 400 to 800 dollars. I don't know that kind of thing just hit me strange. that is quite a range for the same trike.
If you know me at all, you know I build with thrift store bikes. So you can imagine my sticker shock at the price of trikes. I know most of you would think nothing of dropping almost three bills on a wal mart Schwinn trike. Probably even go more than that for a better quality one.
In my case I have been lurking on Craig's list hoping for a deal. So today bright and early, wife and I drove down to the other end of town to look at a garage sale with an adult trike. The guy wouldn't put a price in the ad. nor did he put an email or a phone number.
When we got there, after a ridiculously difficult time finding him, I found that it was a Miami Sun trike. He was asking 250 for it and I'm sure it would be worth it to most people. But since I am going to hack it up for a motorized version, it's a little more than I want to spend. Actually it's twice what I want to spend. If I were willing to go with that price, I think I would buy the meridian with the short warrantee anyway. plus it would come in a box so that I could get it into the car.
Anyway, I didn't buy it. Oh yeah it had a sign that said the trick sold retail from 400 to 800 dollars. I don't know that kind of thing just hit me strange. that is quite a range for the same trike.
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