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MYTHS

Q: Doesn't a Trikke take up alot of room when you ride it?
A: One of the most common misconceptions about riding a Trikke cambering vehicle is that it requires a great deal of space to ride. Because you have to slalom to propel yourself, people seem to think that you will take up an entire bike path and disrupt traffic. Wrong.

Trikke is like a fish. It requires that you ride a slalom-like course to propel it --- much in the way a fish has to wiggle to swim. Like a fish, you can propel a Trikke at 7 mph by making 5 wide sweeping turns in the time span of ten seconds or by making 12 smaller turns in the same 10 seconds. You're going the same speed in both cases merely by changing the frequency and width of your turns. In essence, the Trikke takes up as much room as you want it to. You can take up the space of a typical bicycle or inline skater or you can own the road by making big wide sweeping turns which is great fun and a great deal like skiing or surfing. Like a race car that begs you to punch it, the Trikke begs you to carve deep turns. How great is that? You have to have fun to make a Trikke go. In our experience, we have found that Trikke 3CVs are more at home in a crowd than any other vehicle including a bike. The extraordinary amount of maneuverability of a cambering vehicle allows you to ride circles in and around a crowd in total control.