Folding Trices - Wow

John B said:

Will they ever stop?
The lads at ICE have just launched their 2006 models and all the standard
range now have suspension and also - FOLD.

http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/trice_details_standard_model_features.htm

Now that IS nice!

Mike

Mike Causer said:

John B said:

Will they ever stop?
The lads at ICE have just launched their 2006 models and all the standard
range now have suspension and also - FOLD.

http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/trice_details_standard_model_features.htm

Now that IS nice!

Very nice. Kevin at D-Tek was predicting availability of second hand
ICEs a year or so after launch as people upgraded to a custom Trice,
but this could mean people upgrading to a new ICE (well, apart from
the fact that the "standard" models are now Trices too not ICEs).

Nigel Cliffe said:

However, for the "upgrade to suspension" route there is an alternative for
existing owners. The new suspension rear appears to be retro-fittable to
existing ICE models (think it says that on the Trice website), it might be
more financially attractive to replace the rear-frame than suffer the
depreciation of trading in an old model and purchasing new.

The old suspension rear was fittable to the old trices anyway - so
there's been an upgrade-to-suspension route for some time. Look at
http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/images/trikes/features/appart2.jpg - the
assembly attached to the rear wheel can be substituted by the
equivalent with suspension, eg, looking at
http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/images/trikes/features/seat_up_large.jpg
the joins can be clearly seen (silver line round the frame) at about
the middle of the picture in the lower member and just above the
suspension mount in the seat support member. I understand the central
frame part is the same, whether the back has suspension or not.

So I believe, anyway.

The new models do look nice, but I'm afraid my structural engineering
prejudice intuitively prefers triangulation - curvy cantilevers are
really not my thing - and I prefer the look of the old suspension back
end.

regards, Ian SMith
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In article said:

However, for the "upgrade to suspension" route there is an alternative for
existing owners. The new suspension rear appears to be retro-fittable to
existing ICE models (think it says that on the Trice website), it might be
more financially attractive to replace the rear-frame than suffer the
depreciation of trading in an old model and purchasing new.

Ah, so it does.
http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/trice_details_standard_model_accessories.htm#rear_upgrade
and it gives the folding as well.

Oh well, maybe it will reduce the price of old ones if any of them do go
the "upgrade to custom" route rather than just get that.